Via Modern Ghana, an article on how land has become the new international strategic asset and how – in the report’s opinion – Africa is losing big time. As the article notes: There are credible reports that big multinational corporations like Biofuel Africa Ltd in cahoots with corrupt politicians and traditional leaders and with the […]
Read more »Via The Hindu, a report on the dramatic increase in foreign investment in land deals across Africa and a close look at the Malibya deal — a 50-year lease agreed by the Malian and Libyan Presidents — which has become totemic of the fear that this new phenomenon of land grabbing will deprive subsistence farmers […]
Read more »Via The Pnnom Penh Post , a report that Bangladesh is seeking to purchase 200,000 tonnes of Cambodia’s rice and has requested economic land concessions. As the article notes: “…After the meeting with his Bangladesh counterpart Dipu Moni yesterday, Foreign Minister Hor Namhong told reporters the government of Bangladesh saw its food shortage problem as […]
Read more »Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on the global land rush is gobbling up large expanses of arable land. As the article notes: Deals for farmland have involved many African nations The half-dozen strangers who descended on this remote West African village brought its hand-to-mouth farmers alarming news: their humble fields, tilled from […]
Read more »Via The Financial Express, an interesting look at Bangladesh’s concerns about future food security and the indcation that it is trying to lease/buy agricultural resources in other countries. As the article notes: “…Land is a scarce as well as valuable resource in Bangladesh which is one of the world’s most densely populated countries. Demand for […]
Read more »Via The Japan Times, a reminder that the global land grab and geopolitics of global agriculture reach out to developed countries as often as emerging markets. As the article notes: “…When the news first broke in June that a Hong Kong-based investor had two years earlier purchased more than 50 hectares of forest in Kucchan, […]
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