Via Future Directions International, a report on how Indian farmers are looking overseas to expand their farming operations: Background Farmers from the Indian province of Punjab are increasingly looking overseas to expand their farming operations. Punjab is commonly referred to as the breadbasket of India, due to the fertility of its soils, but in recent years […]
Read more »Via Asia Times, an interesting article on how wealthy farmers from the Indian state of Punjab are looking for new opportunities in Ukraine as the bread basket of India fails to fulfill their needs: India’s much-lamented brain drain is no longer restricted to the fields of science and technology. Rich farmers from the bread basket of India, […]
Read more »Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, a look at how the combination of increasingly dried out pasture land, banditry in the northwest and the threat of Boko Haram in the northeast has pushed many of Nigeria’s cattle herders south, where conflicts with farming communities have risen: Bridget Ambua was gathering for Mass with residents of […]
Read more »Via Future Directions International, an interesting look at Chinese overseas agricultural investment and Beijing’s dream of a new economic world order: There is a link between China’s plans to return to a position of global centrality and its food security. Beijing’s food security strategy has shifted toward overseas investments. This involves moving on from “greenfield investments”, […]
Read more »Courtesy of National Geographic, a detailed look at why corporations are gobbling up land on the world’s hungriest continent: She never saw the big tractor coming. First it plowed up her banana trees. Then her corn. Then her beans, sweet potatoes, cassava. Within a few, dusty minutes the one-acre plot near Xai-Xai, Mozambique, which had […]
Read more »Via The Conversation, a look at how big land deals add stress to the Nile River basin: The World Economic Forum has ranked water crises as the greatest global risk to economies, environments and societies in the next decade, posing even greater threats than climate change. One of the major scenes of a potential water crisis and […]
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