February 9th, 2015
Via The Nation, a report on Myanmar’s agricultural potential: Myanmar may go back to being one of the world’s major rice exporters in five to ten years, as many Thai and foreign investors are looking to expand in rice mills and farms in the country. Thai traders and experts all believe that Myanmar has great […]
Read more »Africa’s Economy Is Rising: Now What Happens to Its Food?
January 24th, 2015
Courtesy of the New York Times, a look at Africa, where farmers are vastly less productive than farmers elsewhere, a reality which needs to change in order for the continent to catch up economically: For decades, the economies of Africa were the world’s economic laggards. They aren’t anymore. Over the last decade, Africa’s per capita […]
Read more »January 5th, 2015
Via The Economist, a report on the growing trend of financiers buying and selling agricultural land, often overseas: IN THE next 40 years, humans will need to produce more food than they did in the previous 10,000 put together. But with sprawling cities gobbling up arable land, agricultural productivity gains decreasing, and demand for biofuels […]
Read more »Why The Next World War Will Be Fought Over Food
December 22nd, 2014
Via Fortune magazine, a sobering article on the world’s massive food crisis — so big that the World Bank and the United Nations say there won’t be enough food to feed the global population by 2050: The world has a massive food crisis on its hands. The crisis is so big that organizations like the […]
Read more »November 23rd, 2014
Via Vox, an interesting report on how Wall Street traders, Chinese state corporations, Gulf sheiks have been buying up farmland abroad: As the world’s population soars past 7 billion, farmland and freshwater are becoming increasingly valuable resources. And, in response, a growing number of companies and investors — Wall Street traders, Chinese state corporations, Gulf sheiks […]
Read more »Kuwaiti Investors Threaten Egypt With Lawsuit Over Land
November 11th, 2014
Via Egypt’s Daily News, a report on a dispute between Kuwaiti investors who own farmland in Egypt and Egyptian authorities: Kuwaiti investors who own 26,000 acres of land in Ayat, Giza, intend to prosecute Egypt in international courts. In comments to Daily News Egypt, Hany Sarie-Eldin, head of Sarie-Eldin and Partners Legal Advisors, said the […]
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