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Seeds Of Change: When The Tortillas Run Out
April 15th, 2023

Courtesy of The Economist, a look at how crazy policies and climate change are hurting Latin American agriculture and driving migration and conflict: When billions of black bugs invaded Buenos Aires in March, locals were mystified. Social media buzzed with queries. They turned out to be thrips, leaf-munching insects escaping from the drought-denuded Argentine countryside […]

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Worried About Spying and Tensions With China, Many States Limit Who Can Buy Farmland
April 14th, 2023

Via Investigate Midwest, commentary on how federal and Midwestern state lawmakers are seeking to crack down on Chinese ownership of U.S. agricultural lands, amid security tensions and the shooting down of a “spy balloon” spotted over Montana. Federal data shows that foreign holdings of U.S. farmland increased by an average of 2.2 million acres a […]

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Pakistan: Agricultural Land Grab By Military
April 14th, 2023

Via Farm Land Grab, a report on Pakistan’s military taking over agricultural land: Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee (PKRC) strongly condemns the agricultural land grab by military. PKRC demands that state owned agriculture land be distributed among the small farmers, landless peasants and tenants. PKRC believes that the recent agreement signed by the caretaker government of […]

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Ukraine’s Other Land Grab
April 14th, 2023

Via Al Jazeera, a podcast on how Ukraine – the breadbasket of Europe – is seeing its land change hands: Ukraine might not look like a good financial investment after a year at war with no end in sight, but Harvard, Saudi Arabia, a handful of oligarchs, and the United States investment manager The Vanguard […]

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Why So Many States Want to Ban China From Owning Farmland
February 21st, 2023

Via FiveThirtyEight, commentary on why so many states want to ban China from owning farmland: The spy balloon spotted over Montana wasn’t the first recent incident to spark fears about national security and espionage in the U.S. Only a few years ago, a Chinese billionaire named Sun Guangxin planned to build a wind farm on part of […]

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The $20m Flip: The Story Of The Largest Land Grab In The Brazilian Amazon
February 20th, 2023

Via Mongabay, a report on what some are calling the largest land grab in the Brazilian Amazon: This is the story of how three individual landowners engineered the single-largest instance of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. The clearing of 6,469 hectares (or 15,985 acres) of forest in the southern part of Pará state could earn […]

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About This Blog And Its Author
Seeds Of A Revolution is committed to defining the disruptive geopolitics of the global Farms Race.  Due to the convergence of a growing world population, increased water scarcity, and a decrease in arable land & nutrient-rich soil, a spike of international investment interest in agricultural is inevitable and apt to bring a heretofore domestic industry into a truly global realm.  Whether this transition involves global land leases or acquisitions, the fundamental need for food & the protectionist feelings this need can give rise to is highly likely to cause such transactions to move quickly into the geopolitical realm.  It is this disruptive change, and the potential for a global farms race, that Seeds Of A Revolution tracks, analyzes, and forecasts.

Educated at Yale University (Bachelor of Arts - History) and Harvard (Master in Public Policy - International Development), Monty Simus has long held a keen interest in natural resource policy and the geopolitical implications of anticipated stresses in the areas of freshwater scarcity, biodiversity reserves & parks, and farm land.  Monty has lived, worked, and traveled in more than forty countries spanning Africa, China, western Europe, the Middle East, South America, and Southeast & Central Asia, and his personal interests comprise economic development, policy, investment, technology, natural resources, and the environment, with a particular focus on globalization’s impact upon these subject areas.  Monty writes about freshwater scarcity issues at www.waterpolitics.com and frontier investment markets at www.wildcatsandblacksheep.com.