Growing resource scarcity and global farmland investment

Annual Review of Resource Economics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2013, Pages 13-34

  Byerlee, Derek ^a   Deininger, Klaus ^b  

^a Independent Researcher ^*  (United States)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Agribusiness; Agricultural development; Farm size; Foreign investment; Land grab

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886923850     PISSN: 19411340     EISSN: 19411359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-resource-091912-151849     Document Type: Article

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