Source: The Peaceful Revolutionist
by David S D’Amato
“The twenty-first century has witnessed global land theft on an unprecedented scale, particularly in the years directly following the historic events of 2008. Overlapping crises of the financial, food, water, and energy systems, among others, led to a frantic global land rush that took hundreds of millions of hectares of arable land from some of the poorest people in the world. The pattern of global landholdings is extremely concentrated. A paper published in 2021 noted that ‘[t]he largest 1% of farms in the world (those larger than 50 ha) operate more than 70% of the world’s farmland,’ a situation that poses a looming threat to global food security. Today, while approximately 84 percent of the world’s individual farms are smaller than two hectares, these amount to little more than one-tenth of the total land dedicated to farming.” (11/13/25)