May 13th, 2020
Via Farm Weekly, a report on sustained global interest in Australia’s farmland: INSTITUTIONAL investors have continued to find Australian agricultural assets appealing, according to Colliers International. The real estate company, which specialises in large-scale, high value asset transactions and whose clients are commonly corporate farmers and investors, released a research and forecast report which said[…]
Read more »Corporate Interests vs. The Amazon
March 27th, 2020
Via Vanity Fair, a look at one example of how Brazil’s richest landowners have seized more property than all the land in Spain, England, France, and Germany combined: The farmers arrived before dusk, setting up camp in the tall grass. There were 25 of them, and for months they had been attempting to occupy a sprawling[…]
Read more »March 15th, 2020
Via The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, an article examining how – when Gulf nations face food, security, and water scarcity issues – one response is to seek lucrative agricultural investments in fertile African lands: Soaring temperatures, sun-baked earth, and dwindling water supplies: the Arabian Gulf’s blistering hot summer this year was, for many, a[…]
Read more »Saudi-based Bateel Expands Farming Operations Into Africa
March 10th, 2020
Via Arabian Business, a report on some joint-venture agreements to be signed this year for new date farms in South Africa and Namibia: Saudi-based gourmet date connoisseur Bateel has revealed plans to expand the farming side of the business into the international market. CEO Dr Ata Atmar told Arabian Business the company is hoping to tie up[…]
Read more »March 10th, 2020
Via Zimbabwe’s The Independent, a report on Zimbabwe’s decision to reach out to Belarus to help revive its agricultural sector: President Emmerson Mnangagwa is planning to parcel out vast tracts of prime horticultural land to the Belarusian government in a deal that will see the eastern European nation farming and exporting produce globally while capacitating local[…]
Read more »Sucked Dry: Water and Land Grabs In Africa’s Nile River Basin
February 4th, 2020
Via the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a look at how huge swaths of land acquired by foreign investors in Africa’s Nile River Basin export profits and displace communities: Alice Nyamihanda was only a toddler beginning to walk and talk when she was forced away from her home. At just three years old, the child[…]
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