Knowledge Mapping Analysis of Transnational Agricultural Land Investment Research

Jing Han, Mengying Jiang, Xupeng Zhang and Xinhai Lu
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Jing Han: School of Public Administration, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
Mengying Jiang: School of Public Administration, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
Xupeng Zhang: School of Public Administration, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Xinhai Lu: School of Public Administration, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China

Land, 2021, vol. 10, issue 12, 1-15

Abstract: With the expansion of the global transnational agricultural planting scale, research on transnational agricultural land investment is growing. In order to analyze the development context and basic characteristics of this research, and to discover the research hotspots and frontiers, this study used documentation and bibliometric methods to examine the achievements of it. The results show the following: (1) Transnational agricultural land investment research is mainly focused on the social sciences, development studies, economics, environmental sciences and geography. (2) The concentration of researchers in this research field is not high, and there is still a lack of authoritative researchers with high influence. The cooperation network has been initially formed between research institutions. Among them, universities and research institutes are the main institutions of transnational agricultural land investment research, but the degree of integration among the research teams is not high. (3) The evolution of the research theme of the field has experienced three stages—an embryonic stage, growth stage and stable stage—and the research content shows a trend of continuous divergence and deepening. (4) From 2005 to 2019, the research hotspots of the research focused on “Land Grabbing, Global Land, Africa, Investment”. At present, the emerging frontier research topics are “Indonesia, Livelihood, Trajectory and Sustainability”. With many years of development, the research has become an obvious "land" attribute, independent from traditional agricultural economic research, and the research topics are becoming more and more mature, refined and diversified. Transnational agricultural land investment research is attracting continuous attention from scholars in multiple disciplines and fields.

Keywords: transnational agricultural land investment; foreign investment in agriculture; overseas farmland investment; land grab; large-scale land acquisitions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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