Via The Africa Report, an article suggesting that while Africa may have celebrated the demise of colonialism, it seems the continent is sliding back to those days, as investors continue to push murky land deals. As the report notes: In 1884, European and American politicians, at a meeting in Berlin, gathered to divide the African […]
Read more »Via How We Made It In Africa, a report that India’s Tata Group is interested to invest in east African farming in order to export agricultural products back to India, where it anticipates a local food supply shortage over the next decades. As the article notes: “One of the opportunities … is agriculture, and east […]
Read more »Via South Africa’s IOL, an article on China’s need to pursue overseas agriculture: China, the world’s most populous country and biggest consumer of grain, should expand its farming overseas to ensure enough food for its people because of limited land and low productivity at home, agriculture experts said on Wednesday. China’s farm trade deficit will […]
Read more »Via The Huffington Post, a report on the global land grab: It’s a global trend, and not a good one. It’s called land grabbing, and it’s happening on a massive scale — especially in Africa. For millions of indigenous villagers and pastoralists it means forced relocation, loss of livelihoods, and a death blow to their […]
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