land grabbing
Unauthorized property acquisition
Land grabbing is the large-scale acquisition of land, typically by governments, corporations, or wealthy investors, often through questionable means or at the expense of local inhabitants.
The term carries negative connotations, suggesting exploitation or displacement of existing users: Critics accused the mining company of land grabbing in indigenous territories.
It may involve legal purchases that nonetheless concentrate ownership unfairly, or outright seizure.
- expropriationGovernment taking private property
- eminent domainForced government land acquisition
- dispossessionDeprival of property rights
- colonizationForeign territorial takeover
- enclosureConfined, bordered space
seizure · displacement · eviction · annexation · territory · conquest · encroachment · indigenous · indigenous peoples · plantation · cash crops · palm oil · speculation · real estate · occupation · theft · settlers · fence
- regional crisespoverty, inequality, violence, crime, corruption
- land tenurefreehold, leasehold, tenancy, tenure system, demesne
- environmental issuesair pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss, global warming, habitat loss
- deforestationclear cutting, clearcutting, clear-cutting, illegal logging, selective logging
- eco-crimesillegal logging, poaching, illegal dumping, wildlife trafficking, toxic dumping
- exploitationexploit, predatory, sex trafficking, take advantage, human trafficking
land grabbingland redistribution
Reassigning property among populations
divestiture · agrarian reform · decolonization · land reform · land back
land, grab, grabbing, lands, landed, landing, landings, lander, landless