Pardee Center Publishes Paper on the Global Land Rush

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University has published a new paper (No. 13) in The Pardee Papers series.

The Global Land Rush: Implications for Food, Fuel, and the Future of Development was written by 2010 Pardee Summer Graduate Fellow Rachel Nalepa. The paper explores the political economy of the recent surge in foreign direct investment in agricultural land in developing countries and the short-term and long-term effects this trend may be having on development overall.

A doctoral student in the Geography and Environment Department at Boston University, Nalepa specializes in the political ecology and geopolitics of land investments for agrofuel developments in Ethiopia.

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