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How Much African Land Is The UK Leasing?
Via The Guardian, an interesting look at how much African land the UK is leasing: The UK has over 1 million hectares leased on the African continent. We take a look at where they are. In terms of...
View ArticleGlobal Green Rush: How Big Agriculture Is Carving Up Africa For Industrial...
Via Foreign Policy, an interesting report on the global Green Rush: There is a gold rush happening in Ethiopia, but it’s not a hunt for the yellow metal. It’s a quest for the green gold of fertile...
View ArticleLand Rush On Brazil’s Frontier
An interesting Euromoney look at interest in Brazil’s frontier lands: First, for those international investors interested in Brazilian agribusiness, the good news: the country’s poor infrastructure is...
View ArticleAfrica: Chops And Robbers
Via AllAfrica, a look at the connection between deforestation and the global land grab: Sprawling across the heart of Africa, the Congo basin covers 3.7m square kilometres and is home to the planet’s...
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Stealing The Great Rainforests Of PNG
Via the Global Mail, an article on how 5 million hectares of Papua New Guinea’s jungle is under threat from foreign land grabs and back-door logging: Gabriel Molok is directing us into his clan’s...
View ArticlePacific Land Grab Among World’s Worst
Via RadioAustralia, a report from an international expert on land-grabbing who says the Pacific has some of the world’s worst examples of the practice: Land-grabbing happens when, usually foreign...
View ArticleIs Africa’s Land Up For Grabs?
Via AllAfrica, an interesting article on land acquisitions in Africa: An apparent surge in the purchase of African land by foreign companies and governments to grow food and other crops for export has...
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Myanmar: A Political Anatomy Of Land Grabs
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...
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Wall Street Investors Take Aim at Farmland
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...
View ArticleThe Hungry Dragon: China Looks Abroad For Greener Pastures
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...
View ArticleThe Global Land Grab: Modern Day Corporate Colonialism
Via The Conversation, a look at the global land grab: The idea that there is a “land grab” taking place in developing nations began with the publication of a report, Seized!, by the NGO Grain. This...
View ArticleAfrica Is Up For Sale By The Acre To The Highest Bidder
Via The African Renaissance, an article on African land acquisitions: Africa is up for sale by the acre to the highest bidder. But how can rice exports from Ethiopia to Saudi Arabia be justified? Land...
View ArticleWater Grabs
Via Farmland Grab, a look at what some call water grabs: In a world running out of accessible water, the question of control looms large. Is water a human right, a public trust and common heritage or a...
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The Next Breadbasket: Why Big Corporations Are Grabbing Up Land On The...
Courtesy of National Geographic, a report on big business’ interest in African farmland: Using hand tools and draft animals, a family harvests wheat in Ethiopia’s famine-prone highlands. Education has...
View Article‘Land Grabbing’ Could Help Feed at Least 300 Million People, Study Suggests
Via the University of Virginia, a new report on the global land grab: Crops grown on “land-grabbed” areas in developing countries could have the potential to feed an extra 100 million people worldwide,...
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When Wall Street Went To Africa
Via Foreign Policy, an interesting report on a New York tycoon who won a sweetheart deal to build a massive “sustainable” palm oil plantation in Cameroon: At the main gate of the Herakles Farms...
View ArticleThe Global Land Grab: Modern Day Corporate Colonialism?
Via The Broker, commentary on the global land grab: The idea that there is a “land grab” taking place in developing nations began with the publication of a report,Seized!, by the NGO Grain. This rang...
View ArticleKuwaiti Investors Threaten Egypt With Lawsuit Over Land
Via Egypt’s Daily News, a report on a dispute between Kuwaiti investors who own farmland in Egypt and Egyptian authorities: Kuwaiti investors who own 26,000 acres of land in Ayat, Giza, intend to...
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Why Wall Street Investors And Chinese Firms Are Buying Farmland All Over The...
Via Vox, an interesting report on how Wall Street traders, Chinese state corporations, Gulf sheiks have been buying up farmland abroad: As the world’s population soars past 7 billion, farmland and...
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Why The Next World War Will Be Fought Over Food
Via Fortune magazine, a sobering article on the world’s massive food crisis — so big that the World Bank and the United Nations say there won’t be enough food to feed the global population by 2050: The...
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