Archive for August, 2010

Is Africa Up For Grabs?
August 30th, 2010

In a new report issued by Friends of the Earth, the charity accuses European companies of land-grabbing throughout Africa to grow biofuel crops that directly compete with food crops.  As the document notes: “…Access to land provides food and livelihoods for billions of people around the world, but as the availability of fertile land and […]

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The Great Acquisition
August 19th, 2010

Via Craccum, a report on global land acquisitions: “…In June this year Africa’s youngest president finally agreed to hold elections. Democracy, it appears, is returning to Madagascar after 35-year-old Andry Rajoelina assumed power in a coup d’état in March 2009 with the assistance of the national army. However the African Union remains cautious and Madagascar […]

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About This Blog And Its Author
Seeds Of A Revolution is committed to defining the disruptive geopolitics of the global Farms Race.  Due to the convergence of a growing world population, increased water scarcity, and a decrease in arable land & nutrient-rich soil, a spike of international investment interest in agricultural is inevitable and apt to bring a heretofore domestic industry into a truly global realm.  Whether this transition involves global land leases or acquisitions, the fundamental need for food & the protectionist feelings this need can give rise to is highly likely to cause such transactions to move quickly into the geopolitical realm.  It is this disruptive change, and the potential for a global farms race, that Seeds Of A Revolution tracks, analyzes, and forecasts.

Educated at Yale University (Bachelor of Arts - History) and Harvard (Master in Public Policy - International Development), Monty Simus has long held a keen interest in natural resource policy and the geopolitical implications of anticipated stresses in the areas of freshwater scarcity, biodiversity reserves & parks, and farm land.  Monty has lived, worked, and traveled in more than forty countries spanning Africa, China, western Europe, the Middle East, South America, and Southeast & Central Asia, and his personal interests comprise economic development, policy, investment, technology, natural resources, and the environment, with a particular focus on globalization’s impact upon these subject areas.  Monty writes about freshwater scarcity issues at www.waterpolitics.com and frontier investment markets at www.wildcatsandblacksheep.com.