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Defining The Disruptive Geopolitics Of The Global Farms Race

Archive for November, 2024

The AfCFTA and Land In Africa: Towards a Surge in Land Grabbing?
November 29th, 2024

Via GRAIN, a report on the impact that the AfCFTA may have on land grabbing in Africa: In late 2023, a group of experts and government leaders met in Addis Ababa to discuss land policy in Africa in light of the African Continental Free Trade (AfCFTA) agreement.[1] This agreement – from which State Parties expect nothing […]

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Cotton Diplomacy: China’s Investment in Tajikistan Agriculture
November 20th, 2024

Via Global Voices, a look at China’s investment in Tajik agriculture: Even though Tajikistan is considered an agricultural country, only six percent of its territory is arable land, the rest is mountainous. Despite this, agriculture provides 20 percent of the country’s GDP and over 45 percent of the country’s employment.  Tajikistan is one of the world’s top exporters of raw cotton. In 2022, […]

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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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