There is increasing evidence that, particularly after the 2007 crisis, land has become an important form of investment alternative to financial assets. The presence of large-scale land acquisitions in the Global South has important consequences on both environmental degradation and food security in the region.There is also some evidence that wealth concentration has played an important role in the demand for risky financial assets which led to the 2007 financial crisis (e.g., see Goda & Lysandrou, 2014, "The contribution of wealth concentration to the subprime crisis". Cambridge Journal of Economics 38: 301-327).I am interested in exploring whether, after the 2007 crisis, wealth concentration has been playing a role in the phenomenon of land grabbing in the Global South (particularly but not exclusively in Latin America).

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Graziano