Title: Outsourcing's third wave : buying farmland abroad

Place: London

Publisher: Economist newspaper

Year: 2009

Journal: The Economist

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Subject: Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

Keywords: land acquisition, food security, public sector, foreign investments, poverty, colonialism, asia

Abstract: The fear of rising food prices and trade bans have prompted rich food importers from the Middle East and China to acquire vast tracts of poor countries' farmland. Is this beneficial foreign investment or neocolonialism?

URL: http://www.economist.com/node/13692889

Document type: Portal