September 10th, 2023
Via Foreign Policy, a look at how China has a fifth of the world’s population but just 9 percent of its arable land—and that bit is increasingly underwater: China is reeling from a record-breaking summer of rainfall and flooding that submerged furrows and destroyed crops, offering a window into how climate change-fueled extreme weather will complicate[…]
Read more »Cultivating Change: India’s Exploration of Contract Farming in Latin America
August 31st, 2023
Via The Financial Express, a report on India’s interest in Paraguay’s agricultural potential: A delegation of agriculture and MSMEs agriculturists is set to travel to Paraguay, driven by the prospect of procuring land and initiating farming ventures. This burgeoning interest was spurred by a recent webinar jointly organized by the Indian Mission in Paraguay and[…]
Read more »August 30th, 2023
Via The Oakland Institute, commentary on a new front in the global farms race: Eviction notices and official company letters obtained by the Oakland Institute confirm the 2014 and 2017 exposés that revealed forced evictions of local communities and destruction of their livelihoods in Kachung, Uganda, by Green Resources, a Norwegian forestry company. Green Resources[…]
Read more »China Daily: China Owns Little U.S. Agricultural Land
August 30th, 2023
Via China Daily, an opinion piece on China’s ownership of U.S. agricultural land: Fears of China buying up land in the United States have been grabbing headlines for quite a while despite the fact that China owns very little American land. Since 2017, a company called Flannery Associates has been buying large plots of land[…]
Read more »August 29th, 2023
Via High Country News, a look at how – increasingly – land in the U.S. west is shifting into the hands of billionaires: Earlier this year, several Western states considered legislation that would ban or restrict foreign ownership of land, particularly agricultural parcels. While some proposed bills, including California’s, involved blanket restrictions, most sought to[…]
Read more »State Lawmakers Move To Ban Chinese Land Ownership
August 22nd, 2023
Via The Washington Post, a report on how 81 bills were introduced in 33 states this year to restrict Chinese land ownership: In Washington, the White House and federal lawmakers are pursuing ways to constrain Chinese-owned businesses like TikTok amid a bipartisan push to limit China’s reach. Now state legislators have embraced a novel, locally focused[…]
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