Publications
Sustainable Development Innovation Briefs: Issue 8
Publication Year: 2010 Publisher: UNDESA
Food security and nutrition and sustainable agriculture
Related Goals
Desertification, land degradation and drought
Related Goals
Background
Foreign land purchases for agriculture: what impact on sustainable development?
Private investors and governments have recently stepped up foreign investment in farmlandin the form of purchases or long-term lease of large tracks of arable land, notably in Africa. This brief examines the implications of this trend for sustainable development.
Private investors and governments have recently stepped up foreign investment in farmlandin the form of purchases or long-term lease of large tracks of arable land, notably in Africa. This brief examines the implications of this trend for sustainable development.
