Contemporary Society
Fred Pearce
The Landgrabbers: The New Fight over who Owns the Earth
11:30am | Sunday 16 September 2012Tickets: | Duration: | Venue: |
£N/A | 1 Hour | Blenheim Palace: The Marlborough Room |
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Chinese entrepreneurs, Gulf oil sheikdoms and jumpy governments have been buying up huge parcels of the world’s land, as worries about food security grow. Areas the size of Wales are being gobbled up every day across the African plains, the paddy fields of Asia and the prairies of eastern Europe. Award-winning science and environmental writer Fred Pearce examines what is behind this land-grab. And he highlights the victims – poor peasants who have an uncertain title to the land they work and are powerless to prevent their governments selling it off.
Pearce is environmental and development consultant for New Scientist and is a regular correspondent for the Guardian. He is a UK Environmental Journalist of the Year and received the ABSW Science Writers Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. Past works include When the Rivers Run Dry and The Last Generation, Confessions of an Eco-sinner.
‘Fred Pearce has lifted the lid on an issue that has yet to register with most people. Anyone who cares about the fate of the planet should read this.’ Chris Mullin MP
Price of this event includes a glass of wine.