February 3rd, 2025
Via Bloomberg, a look at China’s substantial efforts to future-proof itself for trade wars and the return of Donald Trump: China’s quest to feed itself has taken it as far as Kenya’s macadamia nut groves and Bolivia’s cattle ranches, as part of a push in recent years to diversify food sources away from traditional Western […]
Read more »Mango Farms Where? Climate Change Is Scrambling Where The World’s Food Is Grown
January 31st, 2025
Via Grist, a look at how climate change is scrambling where the world’s food is grown, a reality that will lead to more tensions over who owns that land: Twelve years ago, Vincenzo Amata stumbled upon a plot of flowering trees while wandering the Sicilian countryside. Before long, he found a farmer tending the grove. […]
Read more »January 28th, 2025
Via the Financial Times, commentary on how climate change and population pressures are beginning to drive a new surge of competition over territory: As the world’s climate changes, scientists observe that the southern Californian rainy season is starting later and ending earlier, lining up the peak of the dry season closely with the period of […]
Read more »China Is Scouring the Globe in Search of New Food Suppliers
January 15th, 2025
Via Bloomberg, a look at China’s substantial efforts to future-proof itself for trade wars and the return of Donald Trump: China’s quest to feed itself has taken it as far as Kenya’s macadamia nut groves and Bolivia’s cattle ranches, as part of a push in recent years to diversify food sources away from traditional Western […]
Read more »January 10th, 2025
Via the Regina Leader-Post, a report on how foreign ownership of Saskatchewan farmland remains a concern for producers: Jeremy Welter is worried about the regulations that govern foreign purchasing and ownership of land. “The biggest concern is, it doesn’t seem like there’s enough teeth in the current legislation,” said Welter, vice-president of the Agricultural Producers […]
Read more »The Legitimization of Land Grabbing in Uzbekistan’s Cotton Sector
December 10th, 2024
Via The Diplomat, a look at how Uzbek farmers are paying a heavy price in the name of privatization: A new report on land grabbing and urban forced evictions, published by a network of independent Uzbek civil rights activists in collaboration with the University of Ulster and Uzbek Forum for Human Rights, exposes the vulnerability of farmers […]
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