Transcript Landgrabbing in Romania

Stop Land grabbing
in Romania /
Bauernland in Bauernhand
Why Romania?
Natural
resources
Legislation
Corruption
Land prices/
ownership
EU
Cheap labour
Lactitalia
Prio Foods
Gabriel Resources
Agrar Invest Romania AG
Rabobank
First Farms
Emiliana West ROM
Smithfield
Bardeau Holding
Land grabbing
In Romania
Agrimon
Pharos Financial Group
ASI Europe GMBH
Maria Trading
Agrarius AG
Unigra
Ingleby Company
Germanagrar
& MANY OTHERS
How much land has been grabbed ?
Estimation: 800 000 hectares
6 % of the agricultural area
cultivated by large multinationals
But no official statistics
+ land grabbing done by Romanian agribusiness
How do they do it?
• Information diffusion
– Positive marketing
– No clear information about the contract’s details
– No information about the agricultural activities
• Contracts : renting
– 100 €/ha/year or 800 kg/ha/year
– 10 years
– If you want to break the contract : you must pay
600-700 €/ha/year
Getting the peasant to lease land
Impacts
- Land dispossession
- Land prices increase (+ 300 % in 10 year)
- Unemployment :
- No active population
- No socio-economic development
- Destruction of a scientifically recognized farming model
- Monoculture and pollution
- No environment protection
- Land monopoly – neo-colonialism!
- Heritage destruction (archeological sites, forest)
- Water resources privatisation and control
Key concerns
- encourages industrial agriculture systems and large
land mergers
- destroys peasant agriculture
- weakens local economy and regional food systems
- leads to land speculation and price increase
- increases pollution and reduces biodiversity