Via FruitNet.com, a report on a new Emirati investment in Indonesia: Abu Dhabi producer Elite Agro is reportedly set to invest in Subang, in Indonesia’s West Java province, according to a report from CNBC Indonesia. Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said the plan was a continuation of the growing bilateral cooperation between Indonesia and the […]
Read more »Via Nikkei Asia, a look at China’s overseas food security quest: Drought has plunged water levels in China to a once-in-decades low. Some Chinese cities, reliant on hydropower, are going without air conditioning as temperatures soar and residents walk on dry riverbeds. But the most catastrophic consequences could be in store for the country’s food […]
Read more »Courtesy of the New Yorker, an interesting look at the growing number of Alaskan farms, where climate change is helping turn frozen ground into farmland. If this trend continues, there will be even more competition in the Arctic than at present: In 2010, Brad St. Pierre and his wife, Christine, moved from California to Fairbanks, […]
Read more »Courtesy of The Financial Times, commentary on how China’s mission to ensure its food security is now focused on intellectual property: At a briefing in May, Japan’s agriculture minister quantified the illicit Chinese farming of Shine Muscat grapes — a preposterously expensive fruit engineered by Japanese breeders over 18 years. The rights holders, he said, were […]
Read more »Via Macau Business.com, a report on Angola’s interest in additional Chinese agricultural investment: Angola wants more Chinese investors to grow agricultural products in the African country that can be exported to China, Angola’s minister for economy and planning, Mário Caetano João, said on Tuesday. In an interview with Chinese state news agency Xinhua, the […]
Read more »Via The Good Trade, clarification around the terms ‘food sovereignty’ and ‘food security’: Have you heard the term “food sovereignty?” The movement has gathered steam in recent years, with the term regularly popping up in publications like The Guardian, Forbes, and Business Insider. While first coined by La Via Campesina, an “international peasants movement” representing […]
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