The phenomenon of land grabbing has emerged on the world scene since 2007 due to the increase of food prices and the expectation of continuous population growth in the coming years as well as high oil prices which stimulate investments in biofuel industries. Since then a lot of research has been published to describe why international land transactions have increased to unprecedented levels. The term ‘land grabbing’ and also the terms ‘large-scale land acquisitions (deals, transactions)’, ‘land grabs’, ‘global land grabbing’, ‘rush for farmland’, ‘large-scale transnational land deals’ are worldwide used. But what needs to be determined is their content and possible unifying characteristics in various countries as well as what are the drivers of land grabbing in Africa, Asia, Latin America and even some regions of Europe? The aim of this research is to find the answers to these three main questions.