Outsourcing’s third wave : buying farmland abroad

Abstract: The fear of rising food prices and trade bans have prompted rich food importers from the Middle East and China to acquire vast tracts of poor countries’ farmland. Is this beneficial foreign investment or neocolonialism?

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Source(s): , The Economist [4] p., ill., graph, map, photogr The Economist

Published: 2009 Economist newspaper, London (English

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Link: http://www.economist.com/node/13692889

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