In the wake of the 2007–08 food crisis, we have seen the combined development of a rapid financialization of agriculture with the expansion of large-scale corporate farming through large-scale land deals, in particular in developing countries and emerging economies. The rapidly growing appetite for agriculture among financial investors is driven by: mounting risks in “conventional” stocks following the financial crisis, the growing demand and prices for food, and the soaring subsidies for biofuel production. Whereas farming was long considered backward and financially uninteresting, with the new conjuncture in financial firms, a range of farmland settings are now seen as a new, promising frontier of finance.

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• Visser, O., (2025), "FFS - Finance and the global land rush: Understanding the growing role of investment funds in land deals and large-scale farming", HSSCommons: (DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.122)

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1. finance
2. financialization
3. land grab
4. land investment

Original publication: Visser, Oane. "FFS - Finance and the global land rush: Understanding the growing role of investment funds in land deals and large-scale farming." Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation, vol. 2, no. 2, 2015, pp. 278-286. DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.122. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation. Copyright © the author(s). Work published in CFS/RCÉA prior to and including Vol. 8, No. 3 (2021) is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY license. Work published in Vol. 8, No. 4 (2021) and after is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA license. For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.