Via Briar Patch magazine, a report on investor / speculator interest in Canada’s prairie farmland: A 21st-century land rush is sweeping the globe. Amid skyrocketing food prices, climate-related instability, and declining soil and water resources, wealthy investors have begun to size up the world’s farmland as both an investment opportunity and a hedge against food […]
Read more »Via The BBC, a look at the impact of large-scale land acquisitions on Africa’s farmers: “Land grabs” are now one of the biggest issues in Africa. Over the past few years, companies and foreign governments have been leasing large areas of land in some of Africa’s poorest countries. Land deals as % of agricultural area […]
Read more »Via African Agriculture, an article on the potential of land grabs to cause conflict in Africa. As the report notes: The stampede by wealthy states for arable land across Africa and other developing regions could trigger a series of conflicts if governments fail to protect the rights of their people, two recent studies on land […]
Read more »Via China Dialogue, a look at how the financial crisis caused investors to flock to agricultural assets, and how the associated risks may help drive a more sustainable approach. As the article notes: How agricultural land is owned, what is grown on it, and by whom, will probably determine much of the next century’s politics, […]
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