What Drives the Global “Land Rush”?

We review evidence regarding the size and evolution of the "land rush" in the wake of the 2007–8 boom in agricultural commodity prices, and we study the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agricultural investment. The use of data on bilateral investment relationships t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Arezki, Rabah, Deininger, Klaus, Selod, Harris
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25840