 Foreign Investment in Farmland No Low-hanging FruitClaire Schaffnit Chatterjee () Working Papers from eSocialSciences Abstract: A key driver of foreign investment in land, food security is a challenge mankind has been confronted with in various times and places. Wherever human societies have developed, growing needs have led to increasing arable land, and when land has been limited by nature or wars, food shortages ensued. The key solution has always been migration when possible, otherwise innovation-led yield increase. Over millennia, mankind has been gradually spreading over the various continents. This process is now unfolding at the scale of the planet. The extraordinary demographic growth taking place between 1950 and 2050, rising protein consumption in developing countries and energy mandates for biofuels drive an increased demand for feed, fiber, fuel and food. This is leading to the further exploitation of previously unused land. [DB research]. URL:[http://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/DBR_INTERNET_EN-PROD/PROD0000000000296807/Foreign+investment+in+farmland%3A+No+low-hanging+fruit.pdf]. Keywords: foreign investment; land; food security; human societies; biofuels; farmland; developing countries; Sub-Saharan Africa; accessibility; arable land; energy; India; Brazil and Malaysia; investing; farmland; population; USA; business (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:5175 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers from eSocialSciences |
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