O surto de investimento estrangeiro direto nas terras agrícolas dos Estados Unidos nos anos 1970: um caso de Land Grabbing?

Abstract

Land grabbing is a phenomenon that intensified after the global crises of the 2000s, generating a global land rush and causing political, social and economic impacts. An outbreak of foreign investment in United States land seems to have similar characteristics and effects to what happens in land grabbing, and therefore, this work aims to analyze whether this case of foreign direct investment in American agricultural lands in the 1970s can be considered a case of land grabbing. To this end, a bibliographic review of the production on land grabbing was carried out, in addition to the analysis of documents from the United States Department of Agriculture, reports from public hearings held by the American Congress and reports from meetings of the United States accounting office.