The 2007-2008 upsurge in agricultural commodity prices gave rise to widespread concern about investors causing a "global land rush". Large land deals can provide opportunities for better access to capital, transfer of technology, and advances in productivity and employment generation. But they...

This paper surveys the literature on the relationship between international trade in goods and the factors and the environment. Traditional approaches based on the Heckscher-Ohlin trade model and more recent models looking at non-competetive market structures are discussed. Moreover, the paper...