Via Al Jazeera, a report on the trend of foreigners buying up prime agricultural land in Brazil and a look at how proposed legislation could curtail the booming trade: Phil Corzine, a fourth-generation farmer from Illinois, is living the American dream, but it’s happening on dusty soy farms in the interior of Brazil, rather than […]
Read more »Via The Globe and Mail, a report on the impact of the new land rush in Liberia: A woman walks through an area only metres from her village of Nimba Point in Liberia that was forest and farmland only a few months ago. Residents are now faced with adjusting from an agriculture-based economy to a […]
Read more »Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on foreign investment in African agriculture: The public debate about the ethics of investing in farmland is being ignored by serious investors who seem to have had no qualms about buying up large tracts of land in Africa, according to a report in Monday’s FTfm. It could be […]
Read more »Courtesy of The New York Times, a detailed look at the race for the North as melting ice reveals great natural resource treasures: At stake are the Arctic’s abundant supplies of oil, gas and minerals that are, thanks to climate change, becoming newly accessible along with increasingly navigable polar shipping shortcuts. This year, China has […]
Read more »Via Farmland Grab, a report on Obang Metho’s presentation to the 1st Africa Congress on Effective Cooperation for a Green Africa in Bremerhaven, Germany: Thank you for inviting me to address the 1st Africa Congress on Effective Cooperation for a Green Africa (ECOGA). It is a great honor for me to be here with you […]
Read more »Two interesting graphics, one new and one old. First, the old, via the Christian Science Monitor: Then, the new, via Peter Giovanni: Land grabbing: what is it? Land grabbing is a term that describes the acquisition of farmland by companies, governments and individuals. In the last years the term has been used to refer to […]
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