Between 2000 and 2016, China and the UK acquired large areas of land through investment projects in Sub-Saharan Africa …

This paper examines China’s overseas land-based investments in agriculture. Our hypothesis is that – despite extensive … media, NGO and scholarly attention to China’s global resource-seeking activities – the discourse on Chinese ‘land grabs’ is … insufficiently informed by the available data. Moreover, we argue that China’s overseas land-based investments are part of what can …