In the „Land Rights Campaign“ Eco Ruralis exposes the impact of land grabbing in Romania regarding large-scale land investments through documentation and analysis. This work contributes to awareness rising about this problem across the entire society.

First of all, we aim to disseminate the information to our members – Romanian peasants – and strengthen their capacity to defend themselves against unjust land deals. Secondly, Eco Ruralis calls upon all citizens and media representatives to stand up for for traditional and agroecological practices and peasant farming. Last but not least the association demands from the Romanian political leaders to take responsibility for implementation of appropriate policies regarding peasant family farming.

At the beginning of the report you will find an introduction to the issue of land grabbing (Chapter 1), what are the conditions under which land grabbing occurs in Romania and who is actually involved in this process (Chapter 2). The following part points out the impacts of land grabbing in Romania; socio-economic, socio-cultural, political as well as environmental aspects are listed there (Chapter 3). An important part of the report is capped by Chapter 4 which presents four factsheets on land grabbing and two factsheets on forest grabbing in Romania. At the end of the report, Eco Ruralis suggests ways the issue of land grabbing should be dealt with and outlines concrete policy recommendations (Chapter 5). Concluding remarks are included in Chapter 6. 

With this report we aim to draw attention on increasing land concentration in Romania and hope to mobilize a stronger critical voice against it!