Via Fast Company, an interesting report on how China’s desperate efforts to source soybeans from all over the world is explained by the country’s fear of running out of water: China approached Peru and Brazil with an extraordinarily ambitious proposition several years ago. It would build a 3,000-mile railroad from the western coast of Peru […]
Read more »Courtesy of Future Directions International, a look at Middle Eastern Investment in Africa’s agricultural sector: Tariffs and other trade barriers between African countries are expected to fall if the African Continental Free Trade Area is established. Africa will require increased investment in infrastructure, if it is to obtain the greatest benefit from the changes to […]
Read more »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”, […]
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