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Land Grabbing Movie Flyer
The world's farmland, and smallholder farmers, are at risk. Demand for land has soared as investors look for places to grow food for export, grow crops for biofuels, or simply buy up land for profit. This film gives an inside look into the world of investors in the international agro-business and how the politics of the European Union is involved. It follows diverse case studies from a Buddhist monk fighting for land rights in Cambodia, to exploitative agricultural conditions in Ethiopia, to large-scale land investments in Romania and Sierra Leone. Watch the trailer here!

Join Elizabeth Fraser, Policy Analyst at the Oakland Institute and Chivy Sok, Executive Director of the Tikva Grassroots Empowerment Fund for a post-screening discussion on how communities are being affected by land grabbing and the role of the US government and investors in this issue.

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