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still is) associated with the Global South. The World Bank described in its report from 2011 the tremendous increase of demand and interest following the food crisis in 2008: “ Compared to an average annual expansion of global agricultural land of less than 4 million hectares before 2008, approximately 56 million hectares worth of large-scale farmland deals were announced even before the end of 2009”. 5 At the same time, it draws the attention to the fact that over 70 percent of this demand concerned African countries such as Ethiopia, Mozambique, or Sudan, which already some ten years ago transferred millions of hectares to investors. 6 Another example of land grabbing and its impact provides the situation in Tanzania, which was so urgent that the European Parliament addressed the issue by a resolution. 7 The situation concerned the plan of Tanzanian authorities, according to which some 1,500 square kilometres of Maasai land in the area of Western Serengeti were to be transferred to a private company from the United Arab Emirates. A part of the plan was the eviction of 40,000 Maasai pastoralists. Following international pressure, in November 2014 Tanzanian authorities announced their decision to drop the plan. Nevertheless, regardless of this announcement, thousands of Maasai were evicted from their lands. Reports indicate that more than 200 houses have been destroyed and livestock were confiscated by the Tanzanian authorities, causing more than 3,000 people to become homeless as a result. 8 Grabbing: An International Law Perspective , Brill/Nijhoff, 2015; EDELMAN, Marc, OYA, Carlos, BORRAS, Saturnino M. (eds.), Global Land Grabs: History, Theory and Method . Routledge, 2015; COTULA, Lorenzo. Human Rights, Natural Resource and Investment Law in a Globalised World: Shades of Grey in the Shadow of the Law , London and NewYork: Routledge, 2012; ZOOMERS, A., 2010. Globalisation and the foreignisation of space: seven processes driving the current global land grab. Journal of Peasant Studies, 37(2), pp. 429-447; VISSER, Oane, MAMONOVA, Natalia, SPOOR, Max. Oligarchs, megafarms and land reserves: understanding land grabbing in Russia, Journal of Peasant Studies , 2012, Vol. 39, Issue 3-4, pp. 899-931; De SCHUTTER, Olivier, The green rush: the race for farmland and the rights of land users. Louvain: A working paper published by the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, November 2010; Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Addendum to Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter: Large-scale Land Acquisitions and Leases: A Set of Minimum Principles and Measures to Address the Human Rights Challenge , delivered to the 13th Session of the Human Rights Council , U.N. Doc. A/ HRC/13/33/add.2 (28 December 2009) [hereinafter De Schutter, Large-scale Land Acquisitions and Leases ], available at http://www.srfood.org/images/stories/pdf/officialreports/20100305_a-hrc-13-33-add2_land- principles_en.pdf; BORRAS, Saturnino, FRANCO, Jennifer C. From threat to opportunity? Problems with the idea of a ‘code of conduct’ for land grabbing. Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal, 2010, Vol. 13, Issue 2, pp. 507-523, available online at: http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent. cgi?article=1096&context=yhrdlj (accessed 2 February 2018). 5 DEININGER, Klaus, BEYERLEE, Derek, et al. Rising Global Interest in Farmland: Can it Yield Sustainable and Equitable Benefits? , Washington DC, World Bank, 2011, p. xiv, available online at: https://siteresources. worldbank.org/DEC/Resources/Rising-Global-Interest-in-Farmland.pdf, (accessed 6 February 2018) (hereinafter only: The World Bank, Rising Global Interest in Farmland) . 6 Ibid . 7 Resolution of the European Parliament of 12 March 2015 on Tanzania, notably the issue of land grabbing (2015/2604(RSP), OJ C 316, 30 August 2016, p. 122-125. 8 Ibid ., para. B and C.

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