September 16th, 2019
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 »Trump’s Bid to Buy Greenland Shows That The ‘Scramble for the Arctic’ Is Truly On
August 24th, 2019
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 »August 23rd, 2019
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 »Why Ukraine’s Farmers Are Frightened
August 16th, 2019
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 »July 26th, 2019
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 »How Egypt’s Water Feeds The Gulf
May 16th, 2019
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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