October 21st, 2017
Via the Huffington Post, a look at how the recent Gulf crisis is affecting the definition of food security: Food security has taken on a new dimension almost five months into the Gulf crisis that pits a UAE-Saudi alliance against Qatar and for which there is no resolution in sight. The UAE and Saudi Arabia[…]
Read more »Land Grabs Cause Lingering SE Asia Conflicts
October 4th, 2017
Via Seed Daily, commentary on the impact of land grabs in SE Asia: Three-quarters of around 50 conflicts that have erupted in Southeast Asia since 2001 pitting mining, logging or agribusiness giants against indigenous peoples protesting land grabs are still lingering today, researchers reported Tuesday. Only six such clashes have been resolved, while others have[…]
Read more »September 23rd, 2017
Via the Las Vegas Review Journal, an interesting look at one water utility’s efforts to buy farmland to preserve the water rights beneath: After a decade on the range, the cows all start to look the same. For the Southern Nevada Water Authority, this is by design. When the wholesale water supplier for the Las[…]
Read more »Who Really Owns American Farmland?
August 23rd, 2017
Courtesy of The New Food Economy, an article on who really owns American farmland? We’re used to thinking of escalating rents as an urban problem, something suffered mostly by the citizens of booming cities. So when city people look out over a farm—whether they see corn stalks, or long rows of fruit bushes, or cattle[…]
Read more »August 20th, 2017
Via the Iran Project, a look at Iran’s plans to farm rice in South America: Deputy Iranian agriculture minister, while pointing to imports of rice from Uruguay, said Iran had made an overseas farming plan for cultivating rice in the South American country. Houman Fathi, General Manager of International Affairs of Iran’s Agriculture Ministry, said[…]
Read more »The Bear and the Dragon: Do Not Fear a Chinese Land Grab in the Russian Far East
August 16th, 2017
Via Future Directions International, a look at whether Russian farmland in the Far East is under an imminent Chinese threat: It is both popular and unwise to assume that Russian farmland in the Far East is under an imminent Chinese threat. Popular in the sense that, with Russia hosting 6.2 million people in a federal district[…]
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