Global: Positive investment alternatives to large-scale land acquisitions

In the context of the current rush for land in which the flows of land based wealth and power are being increasingly concentrated in the hands of dominant social classes and groups, an urgent debate on the future of farming is needed. Rather than accepting and seeking to regulate land grabs as if they were inevitable, this paper from the Transnational Institute proposes alternative investment opportunities which challenge the normative assumptions of the model of large-scale, industrial agriculture that these land appropriations promote.