Via AgWeb, an article on how farmland currently appears to be something akin to a modern-day gold rush: it can’t be bought up fast enough, while per-acre prices fetched for recent sales set record high after record high: It’s a conversation occurring more regularly in rural coffee shops across the United States: “Who bought the […]
Read more »Via Mother Jones, commentary on “Ukraine has what may be the richest soil in the world,” writes University of Georgia historian Scott Reynolds Nelson in his astonishing new book Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World. “In 1768, Tzarina Catherine II sent a hundred thousand Russian troops through this region and across the Black Sea […]
Read more »Via MEI, an article on how the Russia-Ukraine War has turned Egypt’s food crisis into an existential threat to the economy: With the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war on Feb. 24, 2022, Egypt’s food security crisis now poses an existential threat to its economy. The fragile state of Egypt’s food security stems from the agricultural […]
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