Courtesy of Australia’s ABC News, a detailed report on how foreign interests including state-owned companies from China and the Middle East are increasingly looking to Australia to secure their food production by purchasing key agricultural assets. “…The sale of agricultural land is exempt under Foreign Investment Review Board regulations and the FIRB’s attention is usually […]
Read more »Via Australia’s ABC Radio, a transcript of a very interesting interview on food and water security which is shaping up as one of the hottest issues of the 21st century and may offer valuable opportunities for Australian agriculture in the future. As the interview notes: “…because compared to many other countries, Australia has vast tracts […]
Read more »Via The Financial Times, an article on the recent World Bank report on the global farms race. As the article notes: “…Investors in farmland are targeting countries with weak laws, buying arable land on the cheap and failing to deliver on promises of jobs and investments, according to the draft of a report by the […]
Read more »Via TradeArabia, a recent report on the logical link between Middle East investment and African agricultural potential. As the article notes: “…Africa’s untapped agriculture potential make it an ideal partner for resource-constrained Middle Eastern countries that seek to improve their food security, a new report from Standard Chartered Bank said. The African continent is relatively […]
Read more »Via Le Monde, an article focused on Ukraine’s agricultural potential and international interest in such. As the report notes: “…In a few years’ time Ukraine could regain its position as a global breadbasket, realising the huge agricultural potential of its famous chernozem (black earth), one of the most fertile soils in the world. Agriculture is […]
Read more »Courtesy of Treehugger, an interesting report by Lester Brown on the politics of food and food scarcity. As the article notes: “…[the] dangerous geopolitics of food scarcity is emerging in which individual countries, acting in their narrowly defined self-interest, reinforce the trends causing global food security to deteriorate. This began in late 2007 when wheat-exporting […]
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