The global land rush 10 years on: Taking stock of commercial pressures on land

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Paraguayans mourn the deaths of 11 peasants and six police officers at Marina Kue, a piece of state-owned land where police attempted to dislodge landless families in 2012. (Photo: CUSLAR)
IIED | 22 March 2017

The global land rush 10 years on: Taking stock of commercial pressures on land

by Lorenzo Cotula, Thierry Berger

Paper presented to the Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Pverty, Washington, D.C., March 20-24, 2017.

NB This paper is chapter 2 of a draft report that takes stock of evidence and lessons from trends in natural resource investments over the period 2006-2016. The stocktaking covers agribusiness, forestry, mining and petroleum. 

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