October 10th, 2012
Via The Guardian, an interesting graphical analysis of food security risk worldwide to use as a barometer to identify those countries which may be susceptible to famine and societal unrest stemming from food shortages and price fluctuations:
Read more »Are India’s Farmers Victims of a Global Land Rush?
October 10th, 2012
Via TIME, a report on how rising food prices have sparked protests in India and elsewhere in the developing world because of the global land rush: Members of India’s rural communities, including the landless, poor farmers and the tribal community, sleep on a road at a halting point during “Jan Satyagraha,” a march to New […]
Read more »September 29th, 2012
Via Al Jazeera, a report on the trend of foreigners buying up prime agricultural land in Brazil and a look at how proposed legislation could curtail the booming trade: Phil Corzine, a fourth-generation farmer from Illinois, is living the American dream, but it’s happening on dusty soy farms in the interior of Brazil, rather than […]
Read more »Land Rush Leaves Liberia’s Farmers In The Dust
September 28th, 2012
Via The Globe and Mail, a report on the impact of the new land rush in Liberia: A woman walks through an area only metres from her village of Nimba Point in Liberia that was forest and farmland only a few months ago. Residents are now faced with adjusting from an agriculture-based economy to a […]
Read more »September 28th, 2012
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on foreign investment in African agriculture: The public debate about the ethics of investing in farmland is being ignored by serious investors who seem to have had no qualms about buying up large tracts of land in Africa, according to a report in Monday’s FTfm. It could be […]
Read more »The Arctic: The Next Great Land Grab?
September 21st, 2012
Courtesy of The New York Times, a detailed look at the race for the North as melting ice reveals great natural resource treasures: At stake are the Arctic’s abundant supplies of oil, gas and minerals that are, thanks to climate change, becoming newly accessible along with increasingly navigable polar shipping shortcuts. This year, China has […]
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