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 […]
Read more »Via The Financial Times, a report that the UN has proposed that countries set limits on the size of agriculture land sales to regulate the growing trend of so-called farmland grabs. As the article notes: “…The new voluntary guidelines won the consensus of nearly 100 countries this month after three years of negotiations and are […]
Read more »Via The Financial Times, a look at a proposed amendment to laws governing foreign ownership of Brazilian land. As the article notes: When Simon Veldt’s father and his fellow Dutch immigrant farmers set up the Holambra II co-operative near Paranapanema in southeastern Brazil, the area was known as “Hunger Valley”. The co-operative, launched in the […]
Read more »Via Conservation Magazine, a review of the upcoming book entitled, The Land Grabbers, by Fred Pearce: When Madagascan President Marc Ravalomanana was ousted in March 2009, a major factor in his new unpopularity was the deal he had made with South Korea’s Daewoo corporation, effectively handing over 1 million hectares of Madagascar’s best agricultural land. […]
Read more »Via FarmlandGrab.org, a preview of an upcoming IMF report on the global land rush: THE sharp increase in international food prices during 2007–08 triggered a spate of cross-border land acquisitions by sovereign wealth funds, private equity funds, agricultural producers, and other key players in the food and agribusiness industry—fueled by mistrust in international food markets, […]
Read more »Via The Guardian, an article on the impact that the global extraction industry expansion has had upon land and water supplies around the world. As the report notes: The global mining, oil and gas industries have expanded so fast in the last decade they are now leading to large-scale “landgrabbing” and threatening farming and water […]
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