The global land rush has produced an enormous amount of literature since 2007.
This section lists 150 publications that explicitly centre finance-gone-farming. The list will be updated, if you want to join it, please let us know.
Anseeuw W, Roda J-M, Ducastel A, et al. (2017) Global Strategies of Firms and the Financialization of Agriculture. In: Biénabe E, Rival A and Loeillet D (eds) Sustainable Development and Tropical Agri-chains: Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 321–337. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1016-7_25.
Barry PJ (1980) Capital Asset Pricing and Farm Real Estate. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 62(3): 549–553. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/1240213.
Bjørkhaug H, Magnan A and Lawrence G (eds) (2018) The Financialization of Agri-Food Systems. London: Routledge. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315157887.
Burch D and Lawrence G (2013) Financialization in agri-food supply chains: private equity and the transformation of the retail sector. Agriculture and Human Values 30(2): 247–258. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-012-9413-7.
Burch D and Lawrence G (2009) Towards a Third Food Regime: Behind the Transformation. Agriculture and Human Values 26(4): 267–279. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-009-9219-4.
Byerlee D (2013) Are We Learning from History? In: Levenstein SL and Kugelman M (eds) The global farms race: Land grabs, agricultural investment, and the scramble for food secuirty. Washington: Island Press, pp. 21–43. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-013-0277-5.
Chen S, Wilson WW, Larsen R, et al. (2015) Investing in Agriculture as an Asset Class. Agribusiness 31(3): 353–371. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/agr.21411.
Clapp J (2014) Financialization, distance and global food politics. Journal of Peasant Studies 41(5): 797–814. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2013.875536.
Clapp J (2019) The rise of financial investment and common ownership in global agrifood firms. Review of International Political Economy 26(4): 604–629. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2019.1597755.
Clapp J and Isakson SR (2018) Speculative Harvests: Financialization, Food and Agriculture. Rugby: Fernwood Publishing. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3362/9781780449920.
Clapp J, Isakson SR and Visser O (2017) The complex dynamics of agriculture as a financial asset: introduction to symposium. Agriculture and Human Values 34(1): 179–183. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-016-9682-7.
Cochet H (2018) Capital–labour separation and unequal value-added distribution: repositioning land grabbing in the general movement of contemporary agricultural transformations. Journal of Peasant Studies 45(7): 1410–1431. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2017.1311866.
Evans N (2022) Where there’s (farm) muck, there’s brass. In: Dialogues in Human Geography, 204382062110697. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206211069714.
Fairbairn M (2015) Reinventing the wheel? Or adding new air to old tires? Dialogues in Human Geography 5(2): 210–213. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820615588157.
Fairbairn M (2013) Just another Asset Class? Neoliberalism, Finance and the Construction of Farmland Investment. In: Wolf S and Bonanno A (eds) The neoliberal regime in the agri-food sector: Crisis, resilience and restructuring. London: Earthscan, pp. 245–261. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203583111.
Fairbairn M (2014) ‘Like gold with yield’: evolving intersections between farmland and finance. Journal of Peasant Studies 41(5): 777–795. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2013.873977.
Franc-Dąbrowska J (2019) Financialization and speculation in agriculture – positive and negative aspects of the financialization of the economy. Annals of the Polish Association of Agricultural and Agribusiness Economists 21(3): 73–81. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.3064.
Galaz V, Crona B, Dauriach A, et al. (2018) Finance and the Earth system – Exploring the links between financial actors and non-linear changes in the climate system. Global Environmental Change 53: 296–302. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.09.008.
Grain (2011) Pension Funds: Key players in the global farmland grab. Available at: https://grain.org/article/entries/4287-pension-funds-key-players-in-the-global-farmland-grab (accessed: 11/02/2022).
Heller K (2022) The fabulously wealthy are fueling a booming luxury ranch market out West. Available at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/08/16/ranch-land-west-billionaires (accessed: 03/04/2023).
Horst M (2019) Changes in Farmland Ownership in Oregon, USA. Land 8(3): 39. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/land8030039.
Kaplan HM (1985) Farmland as a Portfolio Investment. The Journal of Portfolio Management 11(2): 73–78. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3905/jpm.1985.408992.
Kay K (2022): Locating timber in “institutional grade investment geographies”. In: Dialogues in Human Geography, 204382062110561. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206211056110.
Le Billon P and Sommerville M (2017) Landing capital and assembling ‘investable land’ in the extractive and agricultural sectors. Geoforum 82: 212–224. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.08.011.
Li TM (2015) Transnational Farmland Investment: A Risky Business. Journal of Agrarian Change 15(4): 560-568. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12109.
Lianos I, Velias A, Katalevsky D, et al. (2020) Financialization of the food value chain, common ownership and competition law. European Competition Journal 16(1): 149–220. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17441056.2020.1732682.
Liao C, Nolte K, Brown DG, et al. (2023) The carbon cost of agricultural production in the global land rush. Global Environmental Change: 102679. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102679.
Lins DA, Sherrick BJ and Venigalla A (1992) Institutional Portfolios: Diversification through Farmland Investment. Real Estate Economics 20(4): 549–571. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1540-6229.00596.
Luyt I, Santos N and Carita A (2013) Emerging investment trends in primary agriculture A Review of Equity Funds and other Foreign-led Investments in the CEE and CIS Region. Rome: FAO. Available at: https://www.fao.org/3/i3474e/i3474e.pdf.
MacInnis J, Wiebe N, Desmarais AA, et al. (2022) “This Feminism is Transformative, Rebellious and Autonomous”: inside struggles to shape the CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 46(7): 955-968. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2022.2091717.
Martin SJ and Clapp J (2015) Finance for Agriculture or Agriculture for Finance? Journal of Agrarian Change 15(4): 549–559. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12110.
Meißner L and Mußhoff O (2022) Transaktionen landwirtschaftlicher Nutzfläche in Niedersachsen: Die Bedeutung der nichtlandwirtschaftlichen Käufer im zeitlichen Verlauf. In: Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (eds) Berichte über Landwirtschaft – Zeitschrift für Agrarpolitik und Landwirtschaft 100(1): 1-24. DOI: https://doi.org/10.12767/buel.v100i1.377.
Nolte K (2020) Doomed to fail? Why some land-based investment projects fail. Applied Geography, 122, 102268. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/J.APGEOG.2020.102268.
Oliveira, Gustavo de L. T., McKay BM and Liu J (2021) Beyond land grabs: new insights on land struggles and global agrarian change. Globalizations 18(3): 321–338. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/2325548X.2022.2144683.
Ouma S (2014) Situating global finance in the Land Rush Debate: A critical review. Geoforum 57: 162–166. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.09.006.
Ouma S (2016) From financialization to operations of capital: Historicizing and disentangling the finance–farmland-nexus. Geoforum 72: 82–93. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.02.003
Ouma S (2020) Agriculture as Financial Asset: Global Money and the Making of Institutional Landscapes. Newcastle: Agenda Publishing. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41130-021-00154-y.
Ouma S (2022) Agri-investment scholars of the world unite! The finance-driven land rush as boundary object. Dialogues in Human Geography: 204382062110697. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206211069711.
Ouma S and Bläser K (2015) Räume der Kalkulation, Kalkulation des Raumes. Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie 59(4): 214–229. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/zfw-2015-0402.
Ouma S, Johnson L and Bigger P (2018) Rethinking the financialization of ‘nature’. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 50(3): 500-511. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X18755748.
Ouma S and Klinge TJ (2020) Commodities. In: Knox-Hayes J and Wójcik D (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Financial Geography: Milton: Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 208–231. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351119061.
Russi L (2013) Hungry Capital: The Financialization of Food. Wichester: zero books. ISBN: 9781780997704.
Schmidt TP (2017) The political economy of food and finance. London: Routledge. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315734569.
Sherrick BJ, Mallory ML and Hopper T (2013) What’s the ticker symbol for farmland? Agricultural Finance Review 73(1): 6–31. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/00021461311321285.
Sippel SR (2021) Historical grounding, political contexts, material hurdles: Towards more in‐depth understandings of ‘finance going farming’. Journal of Agrarian Change. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12451.
Sippel SR (2021) The radical contribution of what’s in between M and M’. Dialogues in Human Geography: 204382062110573. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206211057321.
Sippel SR and Visser O (2021) Introduction to symposium ‘Reimagining land: materiality, affect and the uneven trajectories of land transformation’. Agriculture and Human Values 38(1): 271–282. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-020-10152-3.
Sommerville M (2018) Old roots, new shoots: Thickening the local histories of agri-food financialisation. In: Bjørkhaug H, Magnan A and Lawrence G (eds) The financialization of agri-food systems: Contested transformations. New York, NY: Routledge, pp. 223–243. ISBN: 9780367586270.
Stephens P (2021) Social Finance Investing for a Resilient Food Future. Sustainability 13(12): 6512. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su13126512.
van Veelen B (2021) Cash cows? Assembling low-carbon agriculture through green finance. Geoforum 118: 130–139. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.12.008.
Visser O, Clapp J and Isakson SR (2015) Introduction to a Symposium on Global Finance and the Agri-food Sector: Risk and Regulation. Journal of Agrarian Change 15(4): 541–548. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12123.
Wegerif MCA and Guereña A (2020) Land Inequality Trends and Drivers. Land 9(4): 101-123. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/land9040101.
Williams JW (2014) Feeding finance: a critical account of the shifting relationships between finance, food and farming. Economy and Society 43(3): 401–431. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2014.892797.
Woods M (2022): Assets and assemblage in the global countryside. In: Dialogues in Human Geography, 204382062210757. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206221075702.
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Axelrad E (2014) THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN DEVELOPING AGRICULTURAL FINANCE: A look at the history of Germany, the US, and South Korea. Available at: https://www.raflearning.org/post/role-government-developing-agricultural-finance-look-history-germany-us-and-south-korea (accessed: 11/02/2022).
Buxton A, Campanale M and Cotula L (2012) Farms and Funds: Investment Funds in the Global Land Rush. Available at: https://pubs.iied.org/17121iied (accessed: 11/02/2022).
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Ceddia MG (2020) The super-rich and cropland expansion via direct investments in agriculture. Nature Sustainability 3: 312-318. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-0480-2.
Evans N (2021) Where there’s (farm) muck, there’s brass. Dialogues in Human Geography 12(1): 161–164. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206211069714.
Fairbairn M (2020) Fields of gold: Financing the global land rush. Ithaca [New York]: Cornell University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-022-10330-5.
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Kay K (2021) Locating timber in “institutional grade investment geographies”. Dialogues in Human Geography 12(1): 164–166. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206211056110.
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Magnan, A. (2018) Farmland values Media and public discourses around farmland investment in Canada and Australia. In: Bjørkhaug H, Magnan A and Lawrence G (eds) The financialization of agri-food systems: Contested transformations. New York, NY: Routledge, pp. 108–132. ISBN: 9781315157887
Magnan A (2015) The financialization of agri-food in Canada and Australia: Corporate farmland and farm ownership in the grains and oilseed sector. Journal of Rural Studies 41: 1–12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2015.06.007.
Oliveira, Gustavo de L. T. (2018) Chinese land grabs in Brazil? Sinophobia and foreign investments in Brazilian soybean agribusiness. Globalizations 15(1): 114–133. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2017.1377374.
Oliveira, Gustavo de L. T. (2019) Boosters, brokers, bureaucrats and businessmen: assembling Chinese capital with Brazilian agribusiness. Territory, Politics, Governance 7(1): 22–41. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2017.1374205.
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