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Defining The Disruptive Geopolitics Of The Global Farms Race

Archive for December, 2010

The Global Land Grab: Rise Of New Colonialism?
December 12th, 2010

Via India’s Deccan Chronicle, an interesting perspective on the global land rush.  As the article notes: “…A new colonialism is underway. Rich, food-importing countries are grabbing the world’s farmland for captive food production for their people. China, South Korea, Japan, as well as Saudi Arabia and the Arab states are the new colonisers. Africa, with […]

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Boardroom Farmers (2): List of Farmland Investment Vehicles
December 12th, 2010

Via Big Picture Agriculture, a handy list of farmland investment vehicles from the U.S., Canada, South America, and around the world: Farmland LP (sustainable farmland in the U.S.) NGP Global Adaptation Partners (Mark Zenuk, managing director) Black River Asset Management, part of the U.S. agri-business giant Cargill (Rich Hammill, managing director) Macquarie Crop Fund — […]

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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.

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