<DIV><p>"Part of the reason that knowledge about the current global land grab is so uncertain is the paucity of perspectives and analysis in defining the problem. This book fills the gap admirably. Think of it as a mix-tape, in which you’re led from rural, urban, indigenous, EarthFirst!, Global North, Global South, policy wonk, insurgent, high theory, and high praxis. Listen for the new voices and the new ideas ? you’ll be humming them for years to come, and you’ll have heard them here first."?Raj Patel, author of <I>Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System</I><BR><br>In the last decade of the twentieth century, cultivated land around the globe increased at a staggering rate of 4,693,000 acres a year. By 2030, the World Bank projects an increase in the rate of growth to 14,820,000 acres of newly developed land every year?most of which will be in the global South. If, as Vandana Shiva writes, land is life, then it goes without saying that land is also power. Land struggles are always about power?colonial and corporate power, to be sure, but also people power, the power of the dispossessed to rise up and call for an end to the global land grab.</P><p><I>Grabbing Back</I> documents this struggle, bringing together a wealth of essays and analysis documenting the contemporary politics of cultivation and control. In this unprecedented collection of new writings, on-the-ground activists join forces with critically acclaimed scholars and journalists, bringing to light a body of research and analysis that lays bare the vast reaches of the global land grab: from ecotourism in Sri Lanka to landless workers in Brazil to tar sands in Montana and urban decay in Detroit, Michigan.</P><p>Beautifully edited by Alexander Reid Ross of EarthFirst!, and featuring contributions by Vandana Shiva, Guillermo Delgado-P, Noam Chomsky, Max Rameau, Grace Lee Boggs, Michael Hardt, Ahjamu Umi, Scott Crow, Ben Dangl, EarthFirst! Sri Lanka, and others, <I>Grabbing Back</I> is an eye-opening and honest assessment of the state of the land today, and what lies ahead in the years to come.<BR></DIV>