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 »Ranching For Water In Southwestern U.S.
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 »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 »Iran To Cultivate Rice In South America
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 »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 […]
Read more »Foreign Investors Are Snapping Up US Farms
August 7th, 2017
Via Mother Jones, a report on foreign investment interest in U.S. farms: Who owns America’s farms? Not always Americans. US farmland is becoming a target for international investors, according to a handful of recent reports. The amount of foreign-owned US farmland has roughly doubled between 2004 and 2014—with Canada, the Netherlands, and Germany owning the most—the Midwest Center […]
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