Foreign Investment in Agricultural Production : Opportunities and Challenges

Songwe, Vera; Deininger, Klaus

Foreign Investment in Agricultural Production : Opportunities and Challenges

2009

Songwe, Vera | Deininger, Klaus

The recent surge in food and fuel prices has prompted countries with high dependence on food imports to try and lock in future food supplies through direct investment in agricultural production in other countries. The price surges also led to a wave of proposals to invest in biofuels investments in agricultural land. While such investment can provide large benefits, it also carries considerable risks both to investors and citizens in the locality of the investment. To ensure that investments provide broad benefits and effectively contribute to larger development outcomes, enforceable property rights and contractual agreements in many developing countries need to be strengthened. This note considers how development partners can help countries create the pre-conditions for investment and proposes a governance framework to establish minimum standards for it.

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Mots clés AGROVOC

agricultural land agricultural production agriculture best practices commodities crops developing countries economic analysis economic development environmental standards expropriation farm size farmers farmland farms food prices foreign investment income institutional development insurance land policies land rights land transfers land use marketing private sector privatization property rights public investment public services returns rural development sales social development social welfare transaction costs volatility wages

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Editeur

World Bank, Washington, DC

D'autres materias

Civil war; Types of investment; Commodity prices; Domestic prices; Political risks; Equator principles; Transparency initiative; Lease payments; Direct investment; Export markets; Land acquisition; Human development; Public land; Output; Democracies; Oil; Tax; Transaction; Potential investors; Investment climate; Implicit subsidies; Regulatory framework; Kind of investment; Foreign direct investment; Commodity; Economic realities; Rates of growth; Incomes; Bank policy; Factors of production; Financial instruments; Purchases; Holdings; Contract enforcement; Investing; Foreign investors; Land holding; Land use planning; Herders; Landholders; Technical assistance; Land policy; Direct foreign investment; Valuations; Transparency; Dispute resolution; Wage; Business investments; Natural resource; Financial support; Outside investors

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anglais

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CC BY 3.0 IGO, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/, World Bank

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