“Land Grabbing” by Foreign Investors in Developing Countries: Risks and Opportunities

April 2009
IFPRI Policy Brief 13 (Joachim von Braun and Ruth Meinzen-Dick)

Includes rising land acquisition in developing countries; threats and opportunities from large-scale land acquisitions; making a virtue of necessity: toward win-win policies; 5 tables of media reports on overseas land investments to secure food supplies, 2006-09.