Interest in farmland is rising and given commodity price volatility, growing human and environmental pressure and worries about food security, this interest will increase, especially in de developing world. But it comes at a cost.
On the launch of a new World Bank report Rising global interest in farmland: Can it yield sustainable and equitable benefits? (7 September 2010) the organisation concludes that current land grabs in Africa are far from successful and acknowledges its detrimental impact on local livelihoods.
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