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|Offshore Agricultural Production                                                                                                                               |
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Index

    i. Introduction

    ii. History of offshore agricultural production

  iii. The rewards and dangers of offshore production

    iv. Economics of offshore agricultural production

    v. The case of Saudi Arabia

    vi. Conclusion

Shortage is

                The Driver

Introduction

The increasingly competitive global demand for food products has had huge ramifications on the way countries around the globe secure and satisfy their needs for agricultural products. Countries having scarce resources (water, land, human resources, moderate weather) face challenges in trying to satisfy the demand for food.

In the wake of the recent wave of price increases of grains to record numbers, agricultural land in the developing countries became a target for wealthier disadvantaged countries. Offshore agricultural production emerged recently as a solution to the shortage of supply and as an investment opportunity to both the countries leasing and leasing out the land.

In this paper, we will discuss the positive and negative elements of offshore agricultural production. We will show the effect on the... [continues]

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