Via Iran International, a report that Iran plans to use one million hectares of land in Venezuela to grow food: An Iranian official says that Venezuela has agreed to provide one million hectares of agricultural land for Iran’s overseas cultivation projects to secure food. Announcing the agreement last week, Ali Rezvanizadeh said Venezuela can provide […]
Read more »Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at the imminent rise of scuffles between local populations and new global landlords: Donald Trump stole headlines as US president when he was reported to be interested in buying Greenland. The self-governing Danish territory rebuffed the idea and declared itself not for sale. But transnational land deals are hardly an […]
Read more »Via Foreign Policy, a look at what some are calling China’s theft of Taiwan’s sand: At the end of April, the Taiwan Coast Guard Administration received a new frigate, the Hsinchu. At 4,000 tons, it’s a massive beast and was immediately assigned for duty in Taiwan’s Northern Pacific Flotilla to protect one of Taiwan’s most precious maritime […]
Read more »Via Seed Daily, a report on Russia’s occupation of 22% of Ukraine’s farmland: Russian forces now occupy about 22 percent of Ukraine’s farmland since the February 24 invasion, impacting one of the major suppliers to global grain and edible oils markets, NASA said Thursday. Satellite data analyzed by scientists at the US space agency shows that […]
Read more »Via GRAIN, a report on how water is often behind the scramble for land in Africa: Food cannot be grown without water. In Africa, one in three people endure water scarcity and climate change will make things worse. Building on Africa’s highly sophisticated indigenous water management systems could help resolve this growing crisis, but these […]
Read more »Via Quartz Africa, an article on Turkey’s plans to secure food supplies via Sudan, despite previous failure: Turkey has been struggling to feed its entire population since 2015. The government has cited climate change and the constant refugee crisis as the major causes. But to avert the situation, the country now wants to revisit a plan it started in 2016 but […]
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