The foreign companies come in numbers. They dispel the people from the rural areas which were used by them for centuries. They don't confer with the indigenous people. The deals are made in hidden chambers. The only things that the locals see are other people with big tractors invading their areas. The sample is available for download.

The agricultural commodities for export are cultivated mainly by private investors, who lease and buy in the African countries and in other regions of the world. In order to make a contribution to the increase in value, many speculators from the financial sector are being included, who then invest in cropland. The report shows how political past and current failures lead to a continuous progress race to own cropland. In addition, solutions are also being discussed to curb the unrestrained sales of land.

Large-scale investments in cropland will set the course for the future. For those who buy the land, determine what will be produced and it will be produced on the world's agricultural land, especially as in the future. Land grabbing manifests the industrialized production model with all its negative consequences for local small farmers.

This book also offers alternatives to the latest developments and puts concrete demands on politics and civil society to end the race. It is aimed at all those who want to gain more clarity about the land grabbing phenomenon, but also want to know how "the country" is bypassed in times of the liberalized world economy. Last but not least, it is a call to rethink our own role in the global race for agricultural land and to mobilize against landlock and expulsion.