Via the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a look at how huge swaths of land acquired by foreign investors in Africa’s Nile River Basin export profits and displace communities: Alice Nyamihanda was only a toddler beginning to walk and talk when she was forced away from her home. At just three years old, the child […]
Read more »Via Future Directions International, interesting commentary on 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”, or […]
Read more »Via The Crimson, interesting commentary on investments being made in avocados and retrenchment of investments in water-scarce Australia: The Harvard Management Company adjusted its natural resource portfolio this week by purchasing a minority stake in produce company Westfalia Fruit International and selling its investments in two Australian farms. HMC — the University’s investment arm — […]
Read more »Via The Guardian, interesting commentary on how scientists’ efforts to replace replacing crops and livestock with food made from microbes and water may save humanity’s bacon: It sounds like a miracle, but no great technological leaps were required. In a commercial lab on the outskirts of Helsinki, I watched scientists turn water into food. Through […]
Read more »Via The Wall Street Journal, a detailed look at how oil-rich Gulf states grow crops in Egypt and Sudan to export, leaving locals increasingly dependent on imports: At the end of the world’s longest river, Ahmad Muhammad has run out of fresh water. For generations, water from the Nile irrigated wheat, rice, corn and eggplants that Mr. […]
Read more »Via the Ahmedabad Mirror, a report on Indian farmers exploring Africa’s agricultural potential: Abundance of fertile land, cheap labour and availability of water are driving farmers from Gujarat to explore Africa, which has 60 per cent of world’s agriculture land, most of the unexplored. While some farmers have already achieved great success in their ventures, efforts are […]
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