Local food, farmland, and urban development: A case of land grabbing North American style

By Elizabeth Ann Smythe

This article examines emerging forms of investment and land speculation and their implications for local food movements in urban areas. These investment involve  purchases of large tracts of land in growing urban areas with a view to profiting…

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