TY - BOOK ID - 11261456 TI - Rising global interest in farmland : can it yield sustainable and equitable benefits? AU - Deininger, Klaus AU - Byerlee, Derek AU - Lindsay, Jonathan AU - Banque internationale pour la reconstruction et le développement PY - 2011 SN - 0821385917 9786613278876 0821385925 1283278871 9780821385913 PB - Washington: World bank, DB - UniCat KW - Land tenure --Government policy. KW - Land use. KW - Right of property. KW - Land use KW - Land tenure KW - Right of property KW - Business & Economics KW - Real Estate, Housing & Land Use KW - Government policy KW - Government policy. KW - Ownership of property KW - Private ownership of property, Right of KW - Private property, Right of KW - Property, Right of KW - Property rights KW - Right of private ownership of property KW - Right of private property KW - Right to property KW - Agrarian tenure KW - Feudal tenure KW - Freehold KW - Land ownership KW - Land question KW - Landownership KW - Tenure of land KW - Land KW - Land utilization KW - Use of land KW - Utilization of land KW - Law and legislation KW - Civil rights KW - Property KW - Land use, Rural KW - Real property KW - Land, Nationalization of KW - Landowners KW - Serfdom KW - Economics KW - Land cover KW - Landscape assessment KW - NIMBY syndrome KW - Land tenure - Government policy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:11261456 AB - This book aims to provide key pieces of information needed for informed debate about large-scale land acquisition by drawing on the experience from past land expansions, discussing predictions for potential future demand, and providing empirical evidence of what is happening on the ground in the countries most affected by the recent increase in demand for land. It complements demand side considerations with a detailed assessment of the amount of land, whether currently cultivated or not, that might potentially be available for agricultural cultivation at the global and country levels. It then ER -