Rising Global Interest in Farmland: Can It Yield Sustainable and Equitable Benefits?

By Derek Byerlee and Klaus Deininger

This book not only highlights the risks associated with large-scale investment, but also advises on how governments can create an environment to attract investment that contributes to broad-based growth and poverty reduction in cases where land acquisition by large investors makes sense from a social, economic, and environmental perspective.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821385917
• ISBN13: 9780821385913
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"