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Land Squeeze: International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Future Overview and Summary by Statista You will find more infographics at Statista Statista: The Global Land Squeese Smallholder farmers and communities around the world are experiencing a phenomenon called “land squeeze”, which is exacerbating persistent rural poverty and land inequality. This is the result of a number of pressures, including the consolidation of big farms, which means that as they are getting bigger, many smallholder farmers are left with increasingly fragmented, smaller plots of land. In Asia, overall land inequality has risen by as much as 11 percent since 1980. And on a global scale, land consolidation means 1 percent of the world's largest farms now control 70 percent of all farmland. These are just some of the findings detailed in the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems’ new report titled Land Squeeze, published Tuesday. The following chart provides a brief...