Courtesy of Foreign Policy, an interesting report on the geopolitics of food, namely how high prices are spawning land grabs and ousting dictators from the Middle East to Madagascar. As the article notes: In the United States, when world wheat prices rise by 75 percent, as they have over the last year, it means the […]
Read more »Courtesy of The Atlantic, an interesting article on how speculators, among them Muammar Qaddafi, are snatching up much of Africa’s arable soil — enough acreage to cover Norway in a single year — driving up food prices and leaving locals homeless. As the report notes: “Hours into the interior of this agrarian nation sits a […]
Read more »Via The Financial Times, an article on China’s hunger for natural resources is taking them to Ukraine: Chinese investors are looking to buy agriculture land and agribusinesses in Ukraine, as they widen their global hunt for natural resources. But given the bureaucratic challenges of investing int Ukraine, not least restrictions on land ownership, can even […]
Read more »Via Radio Australia, a report from a leading Australian academic of a massive land grab happening in Papua New Guinea: “…In a paper to be delivered at a conference in London Australian National University Associate Professor, Colin Filer, says 5 million hectares of customary land has passed into the hands of national and foreign corporations […]
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