Via Future Directions International, an interesting look at Chinese overseas agricultural investment and Beijing’s dream of a new economic world order: There is a link between China’s plans to return to a position of global centrality and its food security. Beijing’s food security strategy has shifted toward overseas investments. This involves moving on from “greenfield investments”, […]
Read more »Courtesy of National Geographic, a detailed look at why corporations are gobbling up land on the world’s hungriest continent: She never saw the big tractor coming. First it plowed up her banana trees. Then her corn. Then her beans, sweet potatoes, cassava. Within a few, dusty minutes the one-acre plot near Xai-Xai, Mozambique, which had […]
Read more »Via The Conversation, a look at how big land deals add stress to the Nile River basin: The World Economic Forum has ranked water crises as the greatest global risk to economies, environments and societies in the next decade, posing even greater threats than climate change. One of the major scenes of a potential water crisis and […]
Read more »Via Asia Times, a report on China’s acquisition of land in Hokkaido: A new book whose title translates as “Is China Turning Hokkaido into a Province of Its Own?” has caused quite a stir in Japan as the author, Miyamoto Masami (宮本雅史みやもと まさふみ), who sits on the editorial board of the Sankei Shimbun, sounded the […]
Read more »Via the Huffington Post, a look at how the recent Gulf crisis is affecting the definition of food security: Food security has taken on a new dimension almost five months into the Gulf crisis that pits a UAE-Saudi alliance against Qatar and for which there is no resolution in sight. The UAE and Saudi Arabia […]
Read more »Via Seed Daily, commentary on the impact of land grabs in SE Asia: Three-quarters of around 50 conflicts that have erupted in Southeast Asia since 2001 pitting mining, logging or agribusiness giants against indigenous peoples protesting land grabs are still lingering today, researchers reported Tuesday. Only six such clashes have been resolved, while others have […]
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