Via Project Syndicate, a look at China’s Himalayan land grab: Bite by kilometer-size bite, China is eating away at India’s Himalayan borderlands. For decades, Asia’s two giants have fought a bulletless war for territory along their high-altitude border. Recently, though, China has become more assertive, underscoring the need for a new Indian containment strategy. On […]
Read more »Via AgWeb, an interesting look at at China’s global food web: Chinese company Wanbao Grains & Oils Co. processes rice in the Limpopo Valley, Mozambique. Inside a gated compound patrolled by armed guards, hulking towers and concrete buildings loom over fields where Silva Muthemba once grew maize and fattened his cattle. The granaries and surveillance […]
Read more »Via Bloomberg, a look at China’s efforts to feed its future: China’s 1.4 billion people are building up an appetite that is changing the way the world grows and sells food. The Chinese diet is becoming more like that of the average American, forcing companies to scour the planet for everything from bacon to bananas. But China’s […]
Read more »Via Brookings, a report on the Chinese land grab in Africa: There is a consensus in Africa that agriculture is one of the keys to achieving sustainable and inclusive growth there. Most of Africa’s population and its poor depend on agriculture, so this sector can provide potentially significant gains. Agriculture also has the potential to become […]
Read more »Via Eco Watch, a report on how, by 2030, the world could lose 30 million hectares of farm lands to cities, 80% of which will happen in Asia and Africa: By 2030, the world could lose millions of fertile agricultural lands to expanding cities with Asia and Africa accounting for 80 per cent of the […]
Read more »Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, a look at how China is not conquering Russia but leasing it, or buying it, a trend that we can expect to grow as Russian food production to skyrocket with climate change, making it an ever more strategic water and agricultural resource for China: When Chinese delegations visit the sprawling […]
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