Access To Land
In 2014, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), decided to draw up an own-initiative opinion on land grabbing in the EU. After consulting a range of public, private and civil society actors, and conducting a fact-finding mission in Romania, it organised a public hearing in Brussels, to debate the preliminary draft opinion. EESC called on the European Authorities to discuss whether the free movement of capital into land acquisitions should be unrestricted. In the EESC view “the member states must be given more opportunities to regulate and limit their respective markets for agricultural land.”
Land grabbing – a wake-up call for Europe and an imminent threat to family farming (PDF)
