Via Farmland Grab, a report on a UAE-based company’s plans to invest in 1000-hectare orchards in Almaty region: Phoenix Global DMCС, a transnational company based in Dubai (UAE), will invest in the project for orchards development with a total area of 1,000 hectares in Kazakhstan’s Almaty region. Phoenix Global and Kazakh Invest national investment promotion […]
Read more »Via The Guardian, an article on how world powers are racing to exploit the vast untapped resources of the Arctic as global heating opens up a new frontier: Donald Trump’s cack-handed attempt to buy Greenland, and the shirty response of Denmark’s prime minister, provoked amusement last week. But it was mostly nervous laughter. The US intervention […]
Read more »Via The Atlantic, an article on a war waged by deed of title that has dispossessed 98 percent of black agricultural landowners in America: I. Wiped Out “you ever chop before?” Willena Scott-White was testing me. I sat with her in the cab of a Chevy Silverado pickup truck, swatting at the squadrons of giant, fluttering […]
Read more »Via Ozy, a look at the issue of illegal seizure of Ukraine agricultural land: The life of land-working folk, regardless of where they’re based, has never been easy. They’re up before dawn; their impossibly long days are often packed with intense physical labor. That’s in addition to all the challenges involved with running a profitable […]
Read more »Via Australia’s Financial Review, a report on foreign investment in Australian farmland: Foreign ownership of Australian farmland is “overstated” when measured on a dollar-value basis, according to a new report by agribusiness lender Rabobank. While Rabobank found that 13 per cent of Australian farmland by area has some form of foreign ownership interest – […]
Read more »Via Mada, a look at the acquisition of Egypt’s natural resources to secure Gulf food: Vast expanses of green extend across the horizon, tended by the advanced machinery that has replaced hundreds of agricultural workers. The land is watered using center-pivot irrigation systems, connected to one another in a series of canals through which water is […]
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