Via Just Food, news of a new McKinsey report that almost 80m hectares of additional cropland will needed to sustain global food demand: An extra 70 to 80 million hectares of cropland is required in the next seven years to meet the growing demand for food and feed worldwide, according to research from McKinsey. Such […]
Read more »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 […]
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