Courtesy of BusinessWeek, a report on the how farmland in developing countries has become an unlikely object of investor fascination. As the article notes: “…Goldman Sachs (GS), and Morgan Stanley (MS) are each raising hundreds of millions of dollars for agriculture funds aimed at Africa and Latin America. Agribusinesses in the U.S. are leasing vast […]
Read more »Courtesy of The Economist, a review of the conflicts of scarcity and what is now referred to as the Madagascar Model and the sobering likelihood of increased pressures related to such in 2010: “…In the world’s earliest written legal code, dating from 1790BC, Hammurabi, the king of Babylon, laid down rules governing the maintenance of […]
Read more »Courtesy of The New York Times Magazine, an interesting look at what they call agro-imperialism. As the article notes: “…Dr. Robert Zeigler, an eminent American botanist, flew to Saudi Arabia in March for a series of high-level discussions about the future of the kingdom’s food supply. Saudi leaders were frightened: heavily dependent on imports, they […]
Read more »Courtesy of The Guardian, a report that new guidelines are under development that could limit aggressive moves by China, South Korea and Gulf states who have been buying vast tracts of agricultural land. As the article notes: “…A scramble for African farmland has in recent years seen the equivalent of Italy’s entire arable land hoovered […]
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