September 2nd, 2022
Via Macau Business.com, a report on Angola’s interest in additional Chinese agricultural investment: Angola wants more Chinese investors to grow agricultural products in the African country that can be exported to China, Angola’s minister for economy and planning, Mário Caetano João, said on Tuesday. In an interview with Chinese state news agency Xinhua, the[…]
Read more »What Is Food Sovereignty?
August 23rd, 2022
Via The Good Trade, clarification around the terms ‘food sovereignty’ and ‘food security’: Have you heard the term “food sovereignty?” The movement has gathered steam in recent years, with the term regularly popping up in publications like The Guardian, Forbes, and Business Insider. While first coined by La Via Campesina, an “international peasants movement” representing[…]
Read more »August 23rd, 2022
Via Reuters, an article examining Sierra Leone’s new laws to boost landowners’ rights: Sierra Leone’s parliament on Monday passed two laws that lawyers say will help boost the rights of rural landowners and women against land grabs by big mining and agribusiness firms. The West African country has a history of sometimes deadly conflict between local[…]
Read more »Carbon Farming vs. Traditional Farming
August 12th, 2022
Courtesy of The New York Times, another look at the growing clash between farm owners and forestry investors, this time in New Zealand where a growing price on greenhouse emissions is causing investors to rush in and to buy up pastures to plant carbon-sucking trees: Horehore Station, a sheep and cattle ranch, sprawls across 4,000 acres[…]
Read more »August 10th, 2022
Via Yale 360, a look at how the push for renewables is leading to land-use conflicts: rom the ground, the new solar farm shimmers like a mirage oasis on a hot summer day. Instead of row after slanting row of shiny panels stretching taller than corn, this array, mounted directly on the earth, lies flat[…]
Read more »Does IFC Bankroll Destructive Agribusiness?
August 4th, 2022
Via Food Tank, commentary on the role that organizations like the International Finance Corporation play in bankrolling destructive agribusiness: In late June, the World Bank’s private sector arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), approved a US$200M loan to agribusiness giant Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC). Under the guise of “sustainable development,” the loan will be used to[…]
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