Five Years VGGT - A civil society perspective

Land Grabbing continues to be a sad reality for more than 30 million people who lost access to land, the basis of their livelihood and food security. In total, around 2.5 billion farmers and members of indigenous peoples use more than half of the world’s land. But their land rights are not secure. There is a fierce competition about dwindling natural resources – water, land and forests. Foreign investors and national influential actors use their power to acquire large tracts of land, often for export production, sometimes for mere speculation, but often with disregard for land rights and to the detriment of food security.