Land Grabbing no centro e na periferia: reações sociais à estrangeirização de terras nos EUA e em Moçambique

Abstract

This monography focuses on the manifestation of the Land Grabbing phenomenon, also known as global land acquisition, in central and peripheral countries, taking as an example the Mozambican and US experiences as recipients of investments. In order to achieve this objective, an overview of the global process was presented, pointing to the extent of land acquisitions in the context of the quadruple crisis of the early 2000s that affected the energy, climate, finance and food sectors. Subsequently, the data and discussion on the phenomenon in Mozambique are presented, which suffered strong repression from society, especially from the rural social movements that are most affected by Land Grabbing. As for the manifestation of the phenomenon at the center of the international system, research on the acquisition of land by foreigners in the US has been developed, which is already worrying some sectors of US civil society who question investments in agricultural land and fear for the reduction of the country's sovereignty and control of land by non-residents. Finally, the paper presents some final considerations about the analysis of the phenomenon in a peripheral country and in a central country of the system in order to contribute with the reflections about the object studied.