Via Middle East Eye, a report that Blue Carbon has signed a series of deals with African countries for carbon offset projects covering a total area of 24.5 million hectares: Dubai-based firm Blue Carbon has signed a framework of collaboration (FOC) with Kenya’s State Department of Environment and Climate Change that would concede “millions of hectares” of its territory for the production of carbon […]
Read more »Via Nautil.us, a look at how violent gangsterism and illegal operations dominate sand mining in the global south. Last week, two mafia groups in northeast India exchanged gunfire—and torched a half dozen earthmover machines—in a war over a natural resource. They weren’t battling over diamonds or oil: The groups were both trying to get their hands […]
Read more »Via CIMSEC, a report on China’s use of fishing to compete geopolitically: In the 19th Century, the British East India Company was buying up huge amounts of Chinese goods – tea, silk, porcelain and more – but China was not interested in buying anything from Britain. As a way of balancing the accounts, Britain began smuggling […]
Read more »Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on China’s appetite for global soybeans: China’s drive for self-sufficiency, as trade links fray with the US, is not confined to the cutting-edge likes of semiconductors and missile technology. The humble soyabean, too, is weighing on the minds of the nation’s leaders, and has become the unlikely subject […]
Read more »Courtesy of The New York Times, a look at how – across Africa and in parts of Asia – disruption to the supply chain for fertilizer is raising food prices and increasing malnutrition: Suleiman Chubado is not entirely clear what caused the price of fertilizer to more than double over the past year, but he […]
Read more »Via Reuters, an article on Arkansas decision to order Chinese-owned seed producer Syngenta to sell US farmland: Arkansas ordered Syngenta to sell 160 acres (65 hectares) of farmland in the U.S. state within two years on Tuesday because the company is Chinese-owned, drawing a sharp rebuke from the global seeds producer. U.S. farm groups and lawmakers […]
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