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Land availability

Abundant Scarce

Income level

Low Medium to high

Domestic structure

Less
coordinated

More
coordinated

Indirect public
involvement
in oshore
investment

Direct public
involvement
in oshore
investment

No public
need for
oshore land

No capital for
o shore
investment

US
EU
Russia

Rwanda
Malawi

India China

UAE

Figure. 34.1 Who are the land grabbers? Determinants of public sector offshore farmland
investment

to foreign investors and governments? As with the question of home countries, land
availability, structural position in the global economy, and domestic institutional
structure are likely to be key variables in determining which countries are the sites of
large-scale land transactions.
With regard to land availability, host countries generally have higher ratios of arable
land per capita and water resources per capita than home countries, and higher levels
of land availability may also be associated with lower social demands on agricultural
resources(e.g.,throughlessmeat-intensivediets).heWorldBank(2010),initsreport
on large-scale farmland acquisition, sought to identify the “potential supply of land
suitable for rainfed cultivation” by country, considering, inter alia, potential output