Abstract:
This paper aims to raise awareness about land grabbing and its negative impact on EU countries and to find several measures to stop it. The first chapter defines the phenomenon of land grabbing, it presents its history, the factors that determine the occurrence and/or perpetuation of the phenomenon, and the effects. In the second chapter, the paper focuses on case studies of land grabbing in Romania and on the actors and institutions involved. Further on in this chapter, the phenomenon of land grabbing is analysed from the socio-economic, socio-cultural, environmental, and political points of view. The third chapter studies land grabbing from the legal point of view and land law in force in Romania. The last chapter offers several measures to stop this land-grabbing phenomenon. The research ends with the conclusions of the authors.
