Land Grabbing in East Germany: Causes, Effects & Resistance

Speaker: Jan Brunner

Since the mid-2000s, due to the coincidence of so-called multiple crises (financial, energy, climate and food price crises), a boom in investments in land and
large-scale land purchases, in short land grabbing, can be observed worldwide. At the beginning of the debate on land grabbing in the 2000s, media and academic attention was focused almost exclusively on countries of 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 scientific attention is East Germany. In his lecture, Jan Brunner will present causes, types and social effects of land grabbingin East Germany as well as the resistance against these processes.

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