September 19th, 2019
Via The Christian Science Monitor, a report on the performance of Chinese farms in Uganda: The first Abel Mukalazi knew of the land grab was when he saw workers erecting a barbed wire fence around the pasture where his family had grazed their cattle for half a century. He went to the police. They told[…]
Read more »UAE Investments Bear Fruit In Kazakhstan
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 »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 »The Great Land Robbery
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 »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 »Foreign Investment In Australian Farmland ‘Overstated’?
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 –[…]
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