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Transnational land acquisitions
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Created 31 Oct 2014
Published 28 Feb 2015
Last modified 15 Jul 2016
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Transnational land acquisitions refer to the procedure of acquiring land (and freshwater) resources in foreign countries. It is often called 'land grabbing'. Most commonly, investors or investing countries are located in the developed world, while the 'grabbed' land is usually in developing countries.
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For details and sources see Rulli et al. (2013)
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2005-2009
For references, please go to https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/transnational-land-deals-1 or scan the QR code.
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