March 22nd, 2022
Via Mother Jones, commentary on “Ukraine has what may be the richest soil in the world,” writes University of Georgia historian Scott Reynolds Nelson in his astonishing new book Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World. “In 1768, Tzarina Catherine II sent a hundred thousand Russian troops through this region and across the Black Sea […]
Read more »The Russia-Ukraine War has Turned Egypt’s Food Crisis into an Existential Threat to the Economy
March 5th, 2022
Via MEI, an article on how the Russia-Ukraine War has turned Egypt’s food crisis into an existential threat to the economy: With the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war on Feb. 24, 2022, Egypt’s food security crisis now poses an existential threat to its economy. The fragile state of Egypt’s food security stems from the agricultural […]
Read more »February 22nd, 2022
Via The Economist, a report on how a Ukraine conflict sparked disruption in the wheat market would cause serious harm to the biggest Arab country: The biggest buyer of wheat in the world is Egypt, which will import over 13m tonnes of the grain this year. Odd, then, that the way it makes these purchases is […]
Read more »Bill Gates’ Latest New Investing Craze: Farmland
February 17th, 2022
Via GuruFocus, a look at how Bill Gates has acquired over 269,000 acres of farmland, making him the largest private farmland owner in the US based on a Land Report study: Today’s world population is close to 7.9 billion people, with approximately 1 billion of those people already going hungry. The UN estimates the world […]
Read more »February 10th, 2022
Via Al Monitor, an article on the Egyptian President’s decision to the president’s decision to hand over the ownership of 37 islands to the army Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued a decree Jan. 25, handing over ownership of 37 islands to the Egyptian armed forces. The move includes 36 islands in the Nile River and one island […]
Read more »The Great Amazon Land Grab
February 2nd, 2022
Via The Conversation, an article on how Brazil’s government is turning public land private, clearing the way for deforestation: Imagine that several state legislators decide that Yellowstone National Park is too big. Also imagine that, working with federal politicians, they change the law to downsize the park by a million acres, which they sell in a private […]
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