Sheffield City Centre ‘Grabbed’
Sheffield Oxfam Campaigners staged a land grab in the centre of the steel city.
Prominent landmarks such as the City Hall and the Crucible Theatre were sold off to the highest bidder.
Sheffield citizens will be relieved to hear that this was not the real thing but a campaigning action to highlight the growing problems associated with land grabs.
Large scale land deals in developing countries are leaving people homeless and hungry. Families are being unfairly evicted from their land – sometimes violently – and left with no way to grow food or earn a living.
Every second, poor countries lose an area of land the size of a football pitch to banks and private investors.
Poor families are often evicted without fair treatment or compensation. In losing their land they often lose their livelihoods or an opportunity to grow food to feed themselves.
Find out more on the Oxfam website.
