February 6th, 2013
Via Mother Jones, a report on the top five land-grabbing countries: In 2010, a former Wall Street trader flew into war-torn Sudan to negotiate a deal with a thuggish general. He had his eye on a 1 million acre tract of fertile land fed by a tributary of the Nile in the southern section of[…]
Read more »Chinese Firms And Gulf Sheiks Are Snatching Up Farmland Worldwide. Why?
January 29th, 2013
Courtesy of The Washington Post, an interesting article on the global farmland grab: The world’s population is soaring past 7 billion. Food prices keep spiking every few years. Freshwater supplies in plenty of areas are dwindling. A Sudanese farmer prepares his land for irrigation on the banks of the Nile River in Khartoum. (Mohamed Nureldin[…]
Read more »January 21st, 2013
Via My SinChew.com, a report on Liberia: Liberia is selling itself slice by slice nine years after a terrible civil conflict finally came to an end, offering valuable resources to the highest bidder even though that could kindle tension among a population that often feels it is being sold out. The chairman of the Liberia[…]
Read more »Africa: Top Target For Foreign Farmland Acquisition
January 12th, 2013
Via How We Made It In Africa, an interesting article on foreign farmland acquisition in Africa: A key driver of foreign investment in land, food security is a challenge mankind has been confronted with in various times and places. Wherever human societies have developed, growing needs have led to increasing arable land. The key solution[…]
Read more »January 11th, 2013
Via National Geographic, a look at how grabbing land – and water – from poor people, desperate governments, and future generations threatens global food security, environmental sustainability, and local cultures in Mali: The Niger River, shown at Bartaga village, waters a vast inland delta, but officials have plans to divert much of the flows Mayor[…]
Read more »A Parched Future: Global Land and Water Grabbing
January 9th, 2013
Via 3Quarks Daily, a look at the convergence of land and water grabbing worldwide: Land grabbing refers to the large-scale acquisition of comparatively inexpensive agricultural land in foreign countries by foreign governments or corporations. In most cases, the acquired land is located in under-developed countries in Africa, Asia or South America, while the grabbers are[…]
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