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Investment: International investment and local food security

In: 2018 Global food policy report

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  • Zhan, James
  • Mirza, Hafiz
  • Speller, William

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International private investments in agriculture can help the world meet the Zero Hunger goal by boosting food security and nutrition and supporting development. International investments in agriculture have a broad range of social, economic, and environmental impacts. At their best, they create decent jobs that upgrade local skills, provide local farmers with incomes, improve access to markets and finance, develop rural infrastructure and introduce new technologies to modernize domestic sectors, create new sources of food security, and generate lasting, mutually beneficial partnerships with surrounding communities. At worst, investments result in the displacement of people, are detrimental to existing sources of food security, lead to violent conflicts with local communities, damage the natural environment, fail to generate promised benefits for the host country, and themselves fail financially, with companies exiting the host country and leaving a void in their wake.

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  • Zhan, James & Mirza, Hafiz & Speller, William, 2018. "Investment: International investment and local food security," IFPRI book chapters, in: 2018 Global food policy report, chapter 4, pages 30-37, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
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    1. Hirsch, Cornelius & Krisztin, Tamás & See, Linda, 2020. "Water Resources as Determinants for Foreign Direct Investments in Land - A Gravity Analysis of Foreign Land Acquisitions," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 170(C).

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