Additional Resources

LANDESA MATERIALS ON THE GLOBAL LAND RUSH

Issue Brief

• Land Rights and the Global Land Rush

Landesa Blog Posts

• Uprooting Families to Save Trees (October 7, 2011)

• The Impact of the Global Land Rush on Women (September 26, 2011)

• The Myth of Cheap Land (August 18, 2011)

• The Next Big Idea (July 27, 2011)

• Rural Women & Agricultural Land Conversions in China (May 3, 2011)

• Takeaways from World Bank Conference on Land & Poverty (April 29, 2011)

• New Laws in China Could Protect Individual Land Rights (March 22, 2011)

• Top 6 Myths About Land Acquisitions (March 14, 2011)

• Can the Global Land Rush Benefit Investors and Farmers? (January 11, 2011)

Landesa Materials in the Popular Press

• The Myth of Cheap Land, Huffington Post (August 16, 2011)

• Local Farmers Must Not Be Forgotten in Global Land Rush, The Guardian (March 31, 2011)

ADDITIONAL READING

• Anseeuw, Ward, et al., Land Rights and the Rush for Land:  Findings of the Global Commercial Pressures on Land Research Project (International Land Coalition 2012).

• Behrman, Julia, et al., The Gender Implications of Large-Scale Land Deals (International Food Policy Research Institute Discussion Paper 1056, 2011).

• Cotula, Lorenzo, et al., Land Grab or Development Opportunity:  Agricultural Investment and International Land Deals in Africa (FAO, IIED, IFAD 2009)

• Cotula, Lorenzo, Opinion: Why It Makes More Sense to Invest in Farmers Than in Farmland (IIED 2010)
• Daley, Elizabeth, Gendered Impacts of Commercial Pressures on Land (International Land Coalition 2011).

• Deininger, Klaus et al., Rising Global Interest in Farmland:  Can It Yield Sustainable and Equitable Benefits? (World Bank 2011)

• De Schutter, Olivier, The Green Rush: The Global Race for Farmland and the Rights of Land Users, 52 Harv. Int’l L.J. 504 (2011).

• High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition of the Committee on World Food Security, Land Tenure and International Investments in Agriculture (HLPE 2011).

• Knowledge Exchange Platform for Responsible Agro-Investment (RAI), http://www.responsibleagroinvestment.org/rai/.  World Bank, FAO, UNCTAD, IFAD.

• Principles for Responsible Investment in Farmland.  Principles for Responsible Investment Farmland Working Group.

• Roundtable for Sustainable Biofuels, http://rsb.epfl.ch/.  Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne.

• Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests, http://www.fao.org/nr/tenure/voluntary-guidelines/en/.  FAO Committee on World Food Security.

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