This chapter utilizes the concrete example of large-scale land acquisitions to provide a critical reading of South-South relationships. In particular, in the face of a diffused rhetoric which defines BRICS as the representatives and interpreters of the long-standing aspirations of the South in global affairs, the five paladins defending the wretched of the earth against Western hegemony, the author looks at the extent to which BRICS'investors are involved in the current “global land grabbing” and how their source countries are utilizing law and diplomacy in order to facilitate access to foreign land and foster their own economic interests. The conclusion, which is an invitation to further investigation, suggests that the BRICS'governments are increasingly utilizing the same strategies traditionally adopted by Northern countries to favor the enclosure and exploitation of land, in some cases both nationally and abroad, in a way that benefits capital and global agroindustrialization. Thus, if we adopt a bottom-up, we can conclude that the phenomenon that some scholars have defined as a broad transition in the world economic order, is taking place by means of law, authority and subordination.