Overseas Farmland Investment Study Under The Perspective Of Food Security

The rising food price caused by the2008food crisis and the promotion ofbio-fuels made more and more food-importing countries begin to investment farmlandoverseas to protect domestic food security. From the year2008to2011the large-scaleoverseas farmland investment reached12,797,340hectares worldwide and Chinareached1,944,912hectares, so it cannot be ignored the overseas farmlandinvestment’s impact on the domestic food security. This paper aimed to study therelation between overseas farmland investment and food security in China. The paperfirst analyzed the global overseas farmland investment with descriptive statistics, andthen by using the methods of gray correlation analysis, comparative analysis toanalyze the relationship between overseas farmland investment and food security andoverseas farmland investment’s impact on China’s food imports. Next the paper usedthe gravity model to calculate specific impact of different location factors on overseasfarmland investment by panel data analysis, and the location factors include China’sfood import from the host country, GDP of the host country, population of the hostcountry, and distance between China and the host country.The paper concluded: overseas farmland investment had more than50%of thegray correlation degree with Chinese food supply, per capita share of food, foodimport dependency and food imports; the positive location factors were GDP of thehost country, population of the host country, China’s food import from the hostcountry; transport cost was still a constraint on overseas farmland investment.