Tanzania's Land Rush: Impacts of the Farmland Investment Game

by Joanny Bélair

Book Overview

After the global financial crisis of 2008, a new trend in foreign direct investments (FDI) emerged: investors' rising interest in farmland in developing nations. This 'land rush' was a marker of increased land commodification and agricultural financialization, but has also been associated with global narratives of agricultural modernization, and development through FDI of 'cheap, unproductive and/or idle' farmland.

Yet, as this book demonstrates,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350273937
• ISBN13: 9781350273931
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"