What drives the global "land rush" ? (English)

The 2007-2008 upsurge in agricultural commodity prices gave rise to widespread concern about investors causing a "global land rush". Large land deals can provide opportunities for better access to capital, transfer of technology, and advances in productivity and employment generation. But they carry risks of dispossession and loss of livelihoods, corruption, deterioration in local food security, environmental damage, and long-term social polarization...

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Arezki,Rabah;

Deininger,Klaus W.;

Selod,Harris;
Document Date
2011/10/01
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Policy Research Working Paper
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WPS5864
Volume No
1
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1
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World,
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Other,
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2011/10/01
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Disclosed
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What drives the global "land rush" ?
Keywords
access to large amounts of capital

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Arezki,Rabah; Deininger,Klaus W.; Selod,Harris.

What drives the global "land rush" ? (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5864 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/229581468337294753

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