Via Africa is a Country, a report on the consequences of land grabbing on the African continent: In 2013, the journalist Fred Pearce, one of the most authoritative environmental journalists in the United Kingdom, published a book, The Land Grabbers: The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth, in which he details how African governments are selling long leases on […]
Read more »Via The Wall Street Journal, commentary on South Africa’s land expropriation-without-compensation plan: Global economic jitters make this an especially bad time for developing economies to embark on bad policy experiments, yet that’s what South Africa did this month in advancing a sweeping plan to expropriate private land. The only saving grace is that voters will have […]
Read more »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, […]
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