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In recent years, acquisitions of large tracts of land for agricultural use has become a global phenomenon, and with it the possible negative impacts that land grabbing.

This hoarding may have different characteristics. There are states who buy land to other states to ensure their own food security to an uncertain future, or to ensure the supply of biofuels. There are also transnational corporations that invest at attractive economic prospects of the business of food production (predicted a future of rising prices), by the growing global demand for biofuels, or just do it for speculative purposes, in a context in which the financial crisis revalued some assets such as land and other natural resources.

There are national processes, such as Peru, where land grabbing is stimulated by neoliberal policies and pro exporting state, both for the export of high value food products like biodiesel and ethanol.

According to a recent World Bank report, by 2008 four million hectares had been large transactions of lands suitable for agriculture, whereas by the end of 2009 this number had increased to 45 million hectares, both in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The report stresses that this process has generated two schools of thought: some see an opportunity for countries whose lands have not received the investment and technology development have reached an appropriate and requiring the creation of new jobs. In contrast, others stress the risks for weak states, where property rights are poorly defined and regulatory institutions do not have sufficient resources. In these cases, the concentration of land could result in the benefit of a few, in the deepening of inequalities and resource degradation.

To reduce the side effects can lead hoarding land and large agricultural investments, the World Bank, in accordance with FAO, IFAD and the UNCTAD, made seven principles: (1) respect existing rights over land and natural resources, (2) ensure food security , (3) ensure transparency, good governance and an enabling environment, (4) refer to those who may be materially affected, arrangements must be registered and complied with, (5) reflect best industry practices, (6 ) be socially sustainable, and (7) be environmentally sustainable.

little doubt that Peru is located, unfortunately, in the States with little ability to put forward the interest public about the interests of big capital, in which the rights of communities over communal resources are becoming less respected and in which regulatory agencies have not only not enough resources, but are also permeated by corruption, as COFOPRI case shows.