The UN has proposed that countries should set limits on the size of agricultural land sales to regulate the growing trend of so-called farmland grabs.
New voluntary guidelines won consensus among almost 100 countries this month after three years of negotiations. They are set to be ratified in May at a special session of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation in Rome.
The guidelines, which officials say are largely pro-business, say states should “provide safeguards” to protect tenure rights. They said such safeguards could include “introducing ceilings on permissible land transactions and regulation over how transfers exceeding a certain scale should be approved, such as by parliamentary approval”.
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