Source: European Parliament
Priority question for written answer P-000546/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Rosa Serrano Sierra (S&D), Cristina Maestre (S&D), Marcos Ros Sempere (S&D)
The number of large foreign investment funds buying up farmland has shot up in recent years, increasing the cost of land of that kind in many regions, in both Spain and other Member States.
As a result, it is becoming increasingly difficult for small and medium-sized farms to access land and extremely difficult for young people to join the industry. This new model for land ownership in rural areas may pose a threat to the family farming model that underpins our rural areas and may undermine those areas’ future.
In the light of this state of affairs:
- 1.What can the Commission do to prevent a substantial portion of farmland from being bought up by large investment funds?
- 2.When does it intend to launch the land price observatory it announced and what other measures is it considering taking to curb rising prices?
Submitted: 5.2.2025