Speaker: Jan Brunner

Since the mid-2000s, a boom in land investments and
large-scale land acquisitions, or land grabbing for short, has been observed worldwide due to the confluence of so-called multiple crises (financial, energy, climate and food price crises). At the beginning of the debate on land grabbing in the 2000s, media and academic attention was focused almost exclusively on countries in the Global South. Today, land grabbing is increasingly perceived as a global phenomenon that can also be observed in Europe. However, one region that has still received little academic attention is East Germany. In his lecture, Jan Brunner will present the causes, types and social effects of land grabbing in East Germany as well as the resistance against these processes.

To the overview of the event series and the Zoom link:
http://www.uni-kassel.de/go/veranstaltungsreihe_critical_agrarian_studies