What Drives the Global “Land Rush”?
研究了2007-08年农产品价格暴涨后全球土地争夺的规模和演变，发现农业生态潜力是吸引外资进行大规模农业投资的主要因素，而商业环境质量不显著，土地产权不安全反而增加投资兴趣。
We review evidence regarding the size and evolution of the "land rush" in the wake of the 2007–8 boom in agricultural commodity prices, and we study the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agricultural investment. The use of data on bilateral investment relationships to estimate gravity models of transnational land-intensive investments confirms the central role of agro-ecological potential as a pull factor. However, this finding contrasts the standard literature insofar as the quality of the destination country's business climate is insignificant, and weak tenure security is associated with increased interest for investors to acquire land in the country. Policy implications are discussed.