Via Counter Currents, an interesting report on how Indian companies are taking over agricultural land in African nations and exporting produced food. As the article notes: Indian companies venturing abroad is always regarded as a healthy trend, an indicator of India’s new-found economic status. But little is known about how these companies are flexing their […]
Read more »Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on China’s increasingly aggressive program of international agribusiness acquisitions and investments. As the article notes: What do Peruvian fishmeal, Chilean wine and Brazilian soy beans have in common? They’re all on China’s shopping list as the nation of 1.3bn people steps up its agribusiness acquisitions and investments overseas […]
Read more »Via The Financial Times, a report that Argentina’s congress has voted to cap an important source of capital for innovation: foreign land owners. As the article notes: Emboldened by a sweeping electoral victory in October, President Cristina Fernández Kirchner quickly launched the ambitious Strategic Agrifood and Agrindustrial Plan (PEA) claiming that by 2020 Argentina will […]
Read more »Via the BBC, an interesting article on India’s increased interest in African agricultural land and other agricultural holdings: “My ambition is to develop these 300,000 hectares and go past to a million hectares,” says Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi pointing to a map of Africa in his office in Bangalore in southern India. Ambitious as its sounds, […]
Read more »Courtesy of The Toronto Star, a report on international investor interest in Africa’s agricultural lands. As the article notes: Said Manga scans the red volcanic soil outside his mud-brick home and sees a patch of African plain bursting with life. The farmer watches plump chickens zigzag between nearby rows of maize, sorghum and wheat swaying […]
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