Archive for April, 2016

Australia to Reject Chinese Deal to Buy Cattle Ranch Empire
April 29th, 2016

Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, a report on Australia’s decision to reject a Chinese effort to purchase land in the size of Ireland: Australia’s government intends to reject a deal led by Chinese investors to buy the country’s largest cattle-ranch empire, in a signal of rising official concern about offshore investment in the country’s […]

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Global Land Grabs: Village Chiefs vs. International Corporations
April 13th, 2016

Via Foreign Policy, a detailed report on the increasing tendency for multinational corporations to acquire large tracks of land worldwide: Joyce Chachengwa woke up one morning to find her crops — her only source of food and income — ground into the dirt. Chisumbanje is a small village in eastern Zimbabwe, right on the border […]

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Chinese Firm Buys Agricultural Land In France
April 13th, 2016

Via EurActiv, a report on a recent Chinese acquisition of farmland in France: A Chinese company has acquired hundreds of hectares of cereal-producing farmland in central France. This unprecedented situation has provoked astonishment and anger in the farming community. EurActiv’s partner Journal de l’Environnement reports. The reaction of the French National Federation of Land Management and […]

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About This Blog And Its Author
Seeds Of A Revolution is committed to defining the disruptive geopolitics of the global Farms Race.  Due to the convergence of a growing world population, increased water scarcity, and a decrease in arable land & nutrient-rich soil, a spike of international investment interest in agricultural is inevitable and apt to bring a heretofore domestic industry into a truly global realm.  Whether this transition involves global land leases or acquisitions, the fundamental need for food & the protectionist feelings this need can give rise to is highly likely to cause such transactions to move quickly into the geopolitical realm.  It is this disruptive change, and the potential for a global farms race, that Seeds Of A Revolution tracks, analyzes, and forecasts.

Educated at Yale University (Bachelor of Arts - History) and Harvard (Master in Public Policy - International Development), Monty Simus has long held a keen interest in natural resource policy and the geopolitical implications of anticipated stresses in the areas of freshwater scarcity, biodiversity reserves & parks, and farm land.  Monty has lived, worked, and traveled in more than forty countries spanning Africa, China, western Europe, the Middle East, South America, and Southeast & Central Asia, and his personal interests comprise economic development, policy, investment, technology, natural resources, and the environment, with a particular focus on globalization’s impact upon these subject areas.  Monty writes about freshwater scarcity issues at www.waterpolitics.com and frontier investment markets at www.wildcatsandblacksheep.com.