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As recently as 15 years ago, large-scale land grabs regularly made headlines around the world, as wealthy governments bought up fertile fields in poorer countries to grow and export produce to feed their own populations.
Securing land and preventing land grabbing must go hand-in-hand with inclusive, redistributive forms of economic development.
Large swathes of land in the global south are managed by local communities and Indigenous people, but their land rights are under threat
Activists want to give communities more of a say | Middle East & Africa
Local governments are desperate to balance the books with land sales.