July 9th, 2025
Via The Washington Post, a report that the Trump administration will use executive action and work with state officials to ban sales of farmland nationwide to buyers linked to China and other foreign adversaries: U.S. Department of Agriculture chief Brooke Rollins announced Tuesday that the U.S. government will move to ban sales of farmland nationwide […]
Read more »Gulf Investors In, Locals Out: Pakistan’s Corporate Farming Agenda
June 10th, 2025
Via Farmland Grab, a look at Pakistan’s corporate farming agenda: “Calling Cholistan a ‘barren wasteland’ to justify corporate land grabs is not just false—it erases our history,”[1] says Fazal e Rab Lund, a Saraiki Baloch leader from Cholistan in Punjab, Pakistan, with anguish about his homeland. Known traditionally as Rohi, this region was once part of […]
Read more »May 31st, 2025
Via MIT Press Reader, a look at how – as food grows more global – so does the influence of the corporations controlling it: When Bayer acquired Monsanto for $63 billion in 2018, it wasn’t just a mega-merger of agricultural giants — it was a tipping point in the consolidation of global food power. The deal signaled […]
Read more »‘Green Grab’: Solar and Wind Boom Sparks Conflicts on Land Use
May 17th, 2025
Via Yale e360, a look at how solar and wind farms are proliferating and increasingly taking up land worldwide, prompting criticism from rural communities and environmentalists. Solutions range from growing crops or grazing livestock under PV panels to putting floating solar farms on lakes and reservoirs. In California, sheep safely graze amid giant solar farms. […]
Read more »March 19th, 2025
Via Bangkok Post, commentary on growing Thai concerns around Chinese land purchases: The latest report on Chinese investors buying protected forest land to expand their durian plantations is worrying. This is more than just an illegal land grab, however. Soon, the whole durian supply chain will feel the impact. As such, these blatant land grabs […]
Read more »North Dakota: A Leader In Limiting Chinese Land Purchases
February 14th, 2025
Via Associated Press, a report on North Dakota’s efforts to limit Chinese land purchases in its state: It’s been three years since a Chinese company’s plan to develop a swath of farmland near a North Dakota Air Force base prompted local security concerns and led to a rush of legislation across the country, but calls for restrictions keep coming. If anything, the […]
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