[land grabbing] destroys livelihoods, reduces the political space for peasant-oriented agricultural policies and distorts markets towards increasingly concentrated agribusiness interests and global trade rather than towards sustainable peasant/smallhold production for local and national markets. Land grabbing will accelerate eco-system destruction and the climate crisis because of the type of monoculture-oriented, industrial agricultural production that many of these “acquired” lands will be used for (www.grain.org, 2010).