It claims that 6 per cent of farm owners hold two-thirds of agricultural land in the continent, putting livelihoods of millions of small farmers at risk
Asia is seeing high consolidation of land and land reform is moving in the opposite direction, says a report by Spain-based non-profit GRAIN. Only 6 per cent of farm owners control two-thirds of the continent’s agricultural land. These land owners are politically connected elites, as is the case in the Philippines, Cambodia, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Indonesia.
GRAIN works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggle for community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems.
The report, released today, claims that changes in legislations in Asian countries support corporate land-grabbing, displace millions of farmers, undermine local food systems and, consequently, lead to violent conflicts. By GRAIN’s calculations, the legislative changes have already led to the transfer of at least 43.5 million hectares of farmland in Asia from small farmers to agribusiness companies.
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