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Themes explored in this chapter include rural land investment, acquisition and consolidation. The chapter addresses five questions. First, what have been the recent patterns of rural land acquisition and consolidation, particularly those driven by new investors? Second, what approaches characterise investment, passive and indirect or active and direct? Third, who are the investors in rural land? Fourth, what are the motives behind investment in rural land assets? Fifth, and finally, how do investment motives and strategies link to emerging place-based impacts? The big question tackled here is who is investing in rural land assets and for what reason. The chapter flags the profit-seeking nature of land investment (and financialisation) alongside personal motivations.
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Gallent, N., Hamiduddin, I., Juntti, M., Livingstone, N., Stirling, P. (2019). The Changing Nature of Investment in Rural Assets. In: New Money in Rural Areas. Palgrave Pivot, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0770-6_2
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