Farmer, farmworker, beekeeper, religious, international development, and environmental groups claim that the three resulting companies will concentrate market power and "exacerbate the problems caused by industrial farming – with negative consequences for the public, farmers and farm workers, consumers, the environment, and food security"in an open letter to the European Commission and Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager.
European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC), Hands-Off The Land (HOTL) Alliance
17 April 2013
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Land grabbing is widely assumed to be happening only in the global South, but an in-depth analysis by a team of researchers shows that land grabbing is also expanding into Europe.