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A Rush of Americans, Seeking Gold in Cuban Soil
Courtesy of the New York Times, a look at American interest in Cuba’s agricultural industry The premier organic farm in Cuba, called Finca Marta, is in the countryside, a half-hour’s drive from Havana....
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Water Scarcity Slows Foreign Farmland Purchases
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a look at the impact of water scarcity on foreign land acquisitions: Tanzania’s Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor, a huge farm production project that lies across the...
View ArticleEgyptian Judge Quashes President Sisi’s Red Sea Island Deal With Saudi Arabia
Courtesy of The Wall Street Journal, an article on the legal reversal of a decision that had sparked some of the country’s largest protests in years: An Egyptian judge quashed President Abdel Fattah Al...
View ArticleTurkey Eyes African Farmland
Via Al Monitor, a report on Turkey’s interest in African farmland: When Turkey’s husbandry sector plunged into its first big crisis four years ago, the country imported thousands of sheep from France....
View ArticleAfrica’s Real Land Grab
Courtesy of The Economist, a look at the growing tendency for African urbanites to scoop up more land: AFTER half an hour poking around Martin Shem’s farm, Paul Kavishe is impressed, even a little...
View ArticleForeign Farms Increase Risk of Conflict In Africa
Via EurekAlert, a look at the impact that foreign agricultural ownership can have upon stability & security: For the first time, researchers point to areas in Africa where foreign agricultural...
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The Global Race To Own Fertile Land
Via SwissInfo, a look at the worldwide race to own fertile agricultural land: The worrying rise in foreign investors buying up land in poor countries is set to get worse in future, taking valuable...
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Mozambique, Africa Still in the Crosshairs
Courtesy of Food Tank, a look at foreign land acquisition activity in southern Africa: On October 12, the government of Mozambique quietly announced that it would close its Agriculture Promotion Centre...
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This Land Is Their Land….
Via TakePart, a detailed report on the trend – across the globe – of governments and investors from wealthy nations buying up foreign farmland to support domestic food security: In 2009, Madagascar’s...
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China Goes Food Shopping — To Russia
Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, a look at how China is not conquering Russia but leasing it, or buying it, a trend that we can expect to grow as Russian food production to skyrocket with climate...
View ArticleCities Eating Into World’s Farm Lands
Via Eco Watch, a report on how, by 2030, the world could lose 30 million hectares of farm lands to cities, 80% of which will happen in Asia and Africa: By 2030, the world could lose millions of fertile...
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What Do We Know About The Chinese Land Grab In Africa?
Via Brookings, a report on the Chinese land grab in Africa: There is a consensus in Africa that agriculture is one of the keys to achieving sustainable and inclusive growth there. Most of Africa’s...
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Farming the World: China’s Epic Race to Avoid a Food Crisis
Via Bloomberg, a look at China’s efforts to feed its future: China’s 1.4 billion people are building up an appetite that is changing the way the world grows and sells food. The Chinese diet is becoming...
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China Spins a Worldwide Web of Food From Mozambique to Missouri
Via AgWeb, an interesting look at at China’s global food web: Chinese company Wanbao Grains & Oils Co. processes rice in the Limpopo Valley, Mozambique. Inside a gated compound patrolled by armed...
View ArticleChina’s High-Altitude Land Grab
Via Project Syndicate, a look at China’s Himalayan land grab: Bite by kilometer-size bite, China is eating away at India’s Himalayan borderlands. For decades, Asia’s two giants have fought a bulletless...
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China’s Bhutan Land Grab Aims At Bigger Target
Some interesting commentary by Brahma Chellaney on China’s territorial expansion strategy in Asia: China honed its “salami slicing” strategy in the Himalayan borderlands with India in the 1950s, when...
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Loss of Fertile Land Fuels ‘Looming Crisis’ Across Africa
Via The New York Times, a look at how climate change, soil degradation and rising wealth are shrinking the amount of usable land in Africa just as the number of people who need it is rising fast The...
View ArticleForeign Investors Are Snapping Up US Farms
Via Mother Jones, a report on foreign investment interest in U.S. farms: Who owns America’s farms? Not always Americans. US farmland is becoming a target for international investors, according to a...
View ArticleThe Bear and the Dragon: Do Not Fear a Chinese Land Grab in the Russian Far East
Via Future Directions International, a look at whether Russian farmland in the Far East is under an imminent Chinese threat: It is both popular and unwise to assume that Russian farmland in the Far...
View ArticleIran To Cultivate Rice In South America
Via the Iran Project, a look at Iran’s plans to farm rice in South America: Deputy Iranian agriculture minister, while pointing to imports of rice from Uruguay, said Iran had made an overseas farming...
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