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Defining The Disruptive Geopolitics Of The Global Farms Race

Archive for October, 2023

UAE Firm Inks Deal to Buy a Fifth of Zimbabwe’s Land for Carbon Credit Scheme
October 11th, 2023

Via Middle East Eye, a report on an MOU ceding control of vast tracts of African land to a Dubai-based company with ties to the royal family: A Zimbabwe- and Dubai-based firm has inked a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Zimbabwe that would see a fifth of the southern African country’s landmass conceded for carbon credit production. The […]

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China Flexes Green Thumb As It Pursues Agricultural Self-Reliance
October 3rd, 2023

Via the South China Morning Post, a look at China’s renewed efforts to pursue agricultural self-reliance: Country racks up breakthroughs as it turbocharges efforts to guarantee sustainable food production Renewed emphasis on food security as trade relations, geopolitics get increasingly unpredictable As climate change instigates more extreme weather events, geopolitical squabbles break down international relations […]

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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.

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