July 10th, 2013
Via TIME Magazine, an interesting article on Cargill’s acquisition of land in Colombia: Was it a good-faith investment by a U.S. multinational in Colombia? Or a flagrant land grab? That’s what Colombians are debating following revelations that the Minneapolis-based food giant Cargill Inc. acquired nearly 130,000 acres of former government land that had been donated […]
Read more »The Hungry Dragon: China’s Farms Go Global
June 16th, 2013
Courtesy of The Diplomat, a look at China’s overseas investment in agricultural ventures: If the Chinese government is to achieve its goal of accelerated urbanization, one issue it must deal with is food security. Already, as China has developed more of its land, concerns have developed over whether enough arable land will be available to […]
Read more »June 1st, 2013
Courtesy of The Guardian, a look at concerns that multinational companies have been encouraged to seize and deforest land owned by indigenous people in Indonesia: Land conflicts between farmers and plantation owners, mining companies and developers have raged across Indonesia as local and multinational companies have been encouraged to seize and then deforest customary land […]
Read more »China’s India Land Grab
May 5th, 2013
Via Project Syndicate , an interesting commentary on China’s recent intrusion into Indian territory: Stoking tensions with Japan, Vietnam, and the Philippines over islands in the South and East China Seas has not prevented an increasingly assertive China from opening yet another front by staging a military incursion across the disputed, forbidding Himalayan frontier. On […]
Read more »May 5th, 2013
Via Pacific Environment, an article on the Arctic: Centuries ago, European settlers stumbled upon the New World, a pristine world teaming with wildlife and abundance. Immediately the race was on to exploit these resources which were thought to be limitless. We now know what happened to the great northern forests, the prairie, the buffalo and […]
Read more »The Global Farm Grab Is On
April 15th, 2013
Via CNN World, a report on the trend of global acquisition of farmland: This week in Washington, the World Bank is hosting its annual conference on land and poverty. The Bank has identified improved land governance as this year’s theme. It’s a wise decision, given that poor land governance in developing world agricultural settings has […]
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