land acquisition
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Field Notes | Good news for forests?
02.10.11We asked Klaus Deininger, lead author of Rising Global Interest in Farmland, to tell us -- in a nutshell -- what recent land acquisition trends mean for forests.
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Knowledge | Large-scale Acquisition of Land Rights for Agricultural or Natural Resource-based Use
02.10.11Large-scale land acquisition attracted considerable interest in the wake of the 2007-08 commodity boom. This global 'land rush' is unlikely to slow given volatile global commodity prices, demand for biofuels, rising incomes, urbanization and population increases. What impact has this rising interest in farmland had so far?
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Field Notes | "A Search for Fair Returns"
01.31.11Reuters' special report "In global land rush, a search for fair returns" (Jan 31, 2011) raises questions of governance, benefit-sharing, innovation and foreign investment that PROFOR has been asking as well in recent and ongoing studies.
