August 10th, 2022
Via Yale 360, a look at how the push for renewables is leading to land-use conflicts: rom the ground, the new solar farm shimmers like a mirage oasis on a hot summer day. Instead of row after slanting row of shiny panels stretching taller than corn, this array, mounted directly on the earth, lies flat […]
Read more »Does IFC Bankroll Destructive Agribusiness?
August 4th, 2022
Via Food Tank, commentary on the role that organizations like the International Finance Corporation play in bankrolling destructive agribusiness: In late June, the World Bank’s private sector arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), approved a US$200M loan to agribusiness giant Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC). Under the guise of “sustainable development,” the loan will be used to […]
Read more »August 2nd, 2022
Via Eurasia Review, commentary on the weaponization of food: When Russia bombed the port in Odesa last week, it was not an auspicious beginning to the new deal on grain exports. If anyone believed that this agreement between Moscow and Kyiv would have some positive spillover effect on the war grinding on elsewhere in Ukraine, […]
Read more »Chinese Investors To Cultivate 10,000 Hectares Of Rice In Nigeria
July 26th, 2022
Via The Daily Trust, an article on Chinese investors plan to cultivate rice in Nigeria: Gov. Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State has said a group of Chinese investors will establish 10,000 hectares of rice plantation under a trial agricultural project in the state. Buni, in a statement by his Director-General, Press and Media Affairs, Alhaji […]
Read more »July 20th, 2022
Via Iran International, a report that Iran plans to use one million hectares of land in Venezuela to grow food: An Iranian official says that Venezuela has agreed to provide one million hectares of agricultural land for Iran’s overseas cultivation projects to secure food. Announcing the agreement last week, Ali Rezvanizadeh said Venezuela can provide […]
Read more »Land Grabs: Governments Seeking Food Security Sow Seeds Of Discontent
July 17th, 2022
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at the imminent rise of scuffles between local populations and new global landlords: Donald Trump stole headlines as US president when he was reported to be interested in buying Greenland. The self-governing Danish territory rebuffed the idea and declared itself not for sale. But transnational land deals are hardly an […]
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