land-grabs

Such acquisitions also typically involve water rights, meaning that land grabs potentially affect all downstream countries as well.

China also promises to crack down on land grabs by local officials without adequate compensation, a major cause of protests.

In recent years a few Chinese scholars have suggested that privatizing rural land would make such land grabs far harder.

In recent years a few Chinese scholars have suggested that privatising rural land would make such land grabs far harder.

There may be no land grabs or oligarchs tossed into jail, as in Russia, but China is in effect ordering owners to surrender assets for free.

It would be better to liberalise food markets and boost trade than encourage further land grabs.

Thus far the land grabs have contributed more to stirring unrest than to expanding food production.

Polls suggest widespread discontent, especially among farmers upset at land grabs by local officials.

Indeed, the low-income countries that host land grabs or import grain will likely see their food situation deteriorate.

Local hostility toward such land grabs is the rule, not the exception.

When they do occur, they are usually to air grievances about more local affairs like land grabs, factory wages or police brutality.

What makes land grabs unusual is their combination of high levels of corruption with low levels of benefit.

The large "land grabs" in Africa and Asia are also signs of distrust in world markets.

Chinese cities make ends meet through land-grabs.