Trans-border Land Acquisitions A New Guise of Outsourcing and Host Country Effects

by Gouranga Das WIDER Working Paper No. 2012/43 The rush for land acquisition—primarily driven by food shortages, food price volatility, and the run for agrofuel—has drawn considerable attention, as documented by reports published in late 2009, 2010, and 2011. Terminological differences aside, it is—quite distinct from material or service outsourcing—a kind of off-shoring farm production [...]