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Farmland grabbing in Romania. A Storyhunt project.

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Farmland grabbing in Romania. A Storyhunt project.

Goal

Find instances of land grabbing in Romania, by analysing the EU Farm Subsidy data, to see if there are large foreign entities receiving EU subsidies on their Romanian land holdings (either directly or through a subsidiary).

Steps taken

In the Jupyter Notebooks you'll find scripts for cleaning the subsidy data and returning the largest 200 recipients, as well as the locations within Romania that receive the most subsidies.

Next steps

1. Cross-reference the largest recicipients against the LandMatrix data for landgrabbing.
2. Find annual reports for the largest recipients to see if they are subsidiaries of foreign holdings.

Data

In order to run the notebook you will need to download the accompanying data files from here:

• Farm subsidies 2014-15
• Farm subsidies 2008-2013

For more information visit the farm subsidies website by OpenSpending.