This paper addresses the question of how farmers displaced by acquisition of agricultural land for the purpose of … industrialization ought to be compensated. Prior to acquisition, the farmers are leasing in land from a landlord, either a private owner … sell the land ex post to an industrial developer, and ex ante incentives of tenants and landlord to make specific …

An unprecedented land grab is taking place around the world. Fearing future food shortages or eager to profit from them … tracts of land around the world. The scale is astounding: parcels the size of small countries are being gobbled up across the …. Veteran science writer Fred Pearce spent a year circling the globe to find out who was doing the buying, whose land was being …