Stop Land grabbing in Romania / Bauernland in Bauernhand

Why Romania?

Natural resources

Legislation

Corruption Cheap labour

EU

Land prices/ownership

Land grabbingIn RomaniaSmithfield

Unigra

Rabobank

Agrarius AG

Maria Trading Germanagrar

Ingleby Company

Pharos Financial Group

Prio FoodsGabriel Resources

Lactitalia

Emiliana West ROM

Agrimon

First Farms

Bardeau Holding

ASI Europe GMBH

Agrar Invest Romania AG

& MANY OTHERS& MANY OTHERS

Estimation: 800 000 hectares

6 % of the agricultural area

cultivated by large multinationals

But no official statistics

+ land grabbing done by Romanian agribusiness

How much land has been grabbed ?

How do they do it?

• Information diffusion – Positive marketing– No clear information about the contract’s

details– No information about the agricultural

activities

• Contracts : renting – 100 €/ha/year or 800 kg/ha/year– 10 years– If you want to break the contract : you must

pay 600-700 €/ha/year

Getting the peasant to lease land

Impacts

- Land dispossession- Land prices increase (+ 300 % in 10 year)- Unemployment :

- No active population- No socio-economic development

- Destruction of a scientifically recognized farming model- Monoculture and pollution- No environment protection- Land monopoly – neo-colonialism!

- Heritage destruction (archeological sites, forest)- Water resources privatisation and control

Key concerns - encourages industrial agriculture systems and

large land mergers

- destroys peasant agriculture

- weakens local economy and regional food systems

- leads to land speculation and price increase

- increases pollution and reduces biodiversity