May 4th, 2012
Via Agrimoney, an analysis of China’s overseas agricultural acquisitions: Claims of Chinese “land grabs” in Africa, to grow food for importing, have been overstated – for now – although “this could be a longer term motivation”, Standard Chartered said. China, a county with 9% of the world’s farmland, has attracted a string of negative headlines […]
Read more »Land Grabs Mirroring Africa’s Colonial Past?
April 25th, 2012
Via The Africa Report, an article suggesting that while Africa may have celebrated the demise of colonialism, it seems the continent is sliding back to those days, as investors continue to push murky land deals. As the report notes: In 1884, European and American politicians, at a meeting in Berlin, gathered to divide the African […]
Read more »April 25th, 2012
Via How We Made It In Africa, a report that India’s Tata Group is interested to invest in east African farming in order to export agricultural products back to India, where it anticipates a local food supply shortage over the next decades. As the article notes: “One of the opportunities … is agriculture, and east […]
Read more »The Hungry Dragon: ‘China Should Farm More Abroad’
April 21st, 2012
Via South Africa’s IOL, an article on China’s need to pursue overseas agriculture: China, the world’s most populous country and biggest consumer of grain, should expand its farming overseas to ensure enough food for its people because of limited land and low productivity at home, agriculture experts said on Wednesday. China’s farm trade deficit will […]
Read more »April 5th, 2012
Via The Huffington Post, a report on the global land grab: It’s a global trend, and not a good one. It’s called land grabbing, and it’s happening on a massive scale — especially in Africa. For millions of indigenous villagers and pastoralists it means forced relocation, loss of livelihoods, and a death blow to their […]
Read more »The Real Hunger Games?
March 29th, 2012
Via MoneyWeb, an article on whether countries’ acquisition of foreign land should be considered as investments or “land grabs”: Within a few years, acquisition of foreign farmland has become an issue with plenty of explosive potential for the environment and security. Priming it is a rush by China, India, South Korea and Gulf petro-economies to […]
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