Global Farms Race - Land Grabs, Agricultural Investment, Scramble for Food Security

Informationen zum Autor Michael Kugelman is Program Associate for South and Southeast Asia at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Susan L. Levenstein is Program Specialist with the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Klappentext We have entered a new phase of the global food crisis. Wealthy countries that import much of their food! along with private investors! are racing to buy or lease huge swaths of farmland abroad. This book examines this burgeoning trend in all its complexity! considering the implications for investors! host countries! and the world as a whole. Zusammenfassung We have entered a new phase of the global food crisis. Wealthy countries that import much of their food! along with private investors! are racing to buy or lease huge swaths of farmland abroad. This book examines this burgeoning trend in all its complexity! considering the implications for investors! host countries! and the world as a whole.

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• Authors: Michael Kugelman, Michael (EDT)/ Levenstein Kugelman, Michael Levenstein Kugelman, KUGELMAN MICHAEL LEVENSTEIN SUSA, Susan L. Levenstein
• Assisted by: Michael Kugelman (Editor), Susan L. Levenstein (Editor)
• Publisher: Island Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.11.2012
• EAN: 9781610911863
• ISBN: 978-1-61091-186-3
• No. of pages: 248
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics