Via the Los Angeles Times, a look at China’s growing appetite for overseas farmland: When Ma Wenfeng was a boy, his father earned so little money growing wheat and corn that the family mainly ate mantou, a steamed bread that is a staple of the poor. The last thing he would have dreamed of was […]
Read more »Via Mother Jones, an interesting look at how Wall Street and corporations are starting to focus on acquiring farmland in the United States: Where’s the money? In a couple of posts last fall (here and here), I showed that corporations don’t do much actual farming in the United States. True, agrichemical companies like Monsanto and […]
Read more »Via the Myanmar Times, a report on land dispossession in Myanmar: The phrase “land grab” has become common in Myanmar, often making front page news. This reflects the more open political space available to talk about injustices, as well as the escalating severity and degree of land dispossession under the new government. A farmer spreads […]
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