This paper describes a questionnaire survey conducted as part of the Agricultural Investors as Development Actors (henceforward AIDA) research programme to establish the development outcomes of selected foreign agricultural investments for people living in the vicinity of such investments in six...

This research paper uses a systematic mapping protocol to explore the quantity of existing evidences that deals with large scale land investments and land markets. The results show that between 2010 and 2017, the number of peer-reviewed research articles that deal with large scale land...

This report compares and contrasts how disaster risk management is being conceptualised in relation to emerging climate change adaptation efforts and how these two agendas are influenced by different governance systems, accountabilities and social contracts in Zambia, Uganda, Viet Nam and Nepal....

This DIIS Working Paper presents key characteristics of each of the six cases including main crop focus, size and business model, as well as types of investors, their investment approach and the factors that motivate them. It also presents the different objectives that the investors have...