Via The Guardian, a report on land grabs from a south-south perspective: The idea of south-south co-operation evokes a positive image of solidarity between developing countries through the exchange of resources, technology, and knowledge. It’s an attractive proposition, intended to shift the international balance of power and help developing nations break away from aid dependence […]
Read more »Via The New York Times, an OpEd on the global farmland rush: OVER the last decade, as populations have grown, capital has flowed across borders and crop yields have leveled off, food-importing nations and private investors have been securing land abroad to use for agriculture. Poor governments have embraced these deals, but their people are […]
Read more »Via The Guardian, an article on Indian investment in Ethiopia: Ethiopia’s leasing of 600,000 hectares (1.5 acres) of prime farmland to Indian companies has led to intimidation, repression, detentions, rapes, beatings, environmental destruction, and the imprisonment of journalists and political objectors, according to a new report. Research by the US-based Oakland Institute suggests many thousands […]
Read more »Via Mother Jones, a report on the top five land-grabbing countries: In 2010, a former Wall Street trader flew into war-torn Sudan to negotiate a deal with a thuggish general. He had his eye on a 1 million acre tract of fertile land fed by a tributary of the Nile in the southern section of […]
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