Rising Global Interest in Farmland: Can It Yield Sustainable and Equitable Benefits?

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Bolivia

364

2.12

2,530

920

1,610

758

1,549

598

1,428

Madagascar

250

1.48

6,753

4,654

2,100

3,075

2,020

1,573

1,597

Chad

235

0.96

9,131

3,736

5,395

1,896

4,550

738

3,452

Central African Republic

1,941

130

1.09

2,405

84

2,322

38

2,194

14

Uruguay

81

4.15

2,735

2,225

510

2,047

503

1,679

480

Australia

68

5.69

18,870

2,890

15,980

3,611

15,944

3,528

15,907

Sudan

31

2.02

7,911

Mali Subtotal

31,889

14,390

17,499

9,753

15,529

3,994

0

2,358

1,580

778

152

323

4

15

84,654

148,293

77,115

71,180

47,030

60,641

26,393

44,361 25

Current producers China

29,883

5.56

463

279

184

82

79

21

India

8,300

2.32

25

24

0

4

0

3

0

Indonesia

4,003

4.08

204

5

200

1

163

0

107

Philippines

2,661

2.60

1

0

1

0

0

0

0

Romania

2,432

3.23

70

69

1

19

1

7

1

France

1,702

9.29

286

286

1

2

0

0

0

Malawi

1,597

1.65

12

8

4

0

0

0

0

Hungary

1,200

7.47

12

12

0

2

0

1

0

Canada

1,169

9.06

45

44

0

25

0

8

0

Vietnam

1,126

4.02

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Pakistan

1,118

3.61

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Italy

1,053

9.01

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Subtotal World total

56,244 161,017

1,118

727

156,828

83,310

391 74,419

135 48,773

243

40

133

62,690

26,984

45,516

Source: Fischer and Shah 2010. Note: Countries with land available in the table are those with 1 million ha or more of nonforested noncultivated suitable area (< 25 persons/km2), while producers are included if they produced more than 1 million ha of the commodity in 2008. 173


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