Food Insecurity and The Global Land Grab
Food Insecurity and The Global Land Grab
The geostrategy of nations to secure land amid food insecurity and environmental changes is changing the way nations do agriculture and feed their people.
Four Interesting Facts:
"Brazil State-owned Chinese firm Chongqing Grain Group has reportedly
begun harvesting soybeans on some 500,000 acres in Brazil's Bahia
state for export to China. The Group announced in early 2011 that
as part of a multibillion-dollar investment package in Bahia, it would
develop a soybean industrial park with facilities capable of crushing
1.5 million tons of soybeans per year" (Brown, Chapter 10).
"Ethiopia Saudi Star Agricultural Development, owned by Saudi billionaire
Mohammed Al-Amoudi, leased 24,700 acres for rice production in
Ethiopia's Gambella region in 2010. Paying less than $1.00 per acre
per year for this 50-year lease, the firm was growing rice on just 860
acres as of mid-2012. Eventually, Saudi Star intends to obtain
another 716,000 acres in the region, with much of the rice harvest to
be exported to Saudi Arabia" (Ibid).
"Russia South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries has purchased two
Russian farms totaling more than 40,000 acres north of Vladivostok.
The firm planned to produce 16,000 tons of corn, oats, wheat, and
soybeans on this land in 2012, all of it destined for South Korea" (Ibid).
Securing land for food crops accounts for 37% of large scale land acquisitions (Oct.2008 - Aug. 2009) with the primary targeted regions being Sub-Saharan Africa (70.1%) and Southeast Asia (14.7%).
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Food Insecurity and The Global Land Grab
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Source:
Lester R. Brown, Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New
Geopolitics of Food Scarcity (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012).
Food Insecurity and The Global Land Grab
The geostrategy of nations to secure land amid food insecurity and environmental changes is changing the way nations do agriculture and feed their people.
Four Interesting Facts:
"Brazil State-owned Chinese firm Chongqing Grain Group has reportedly
begun harvesting soybeans on some 500,000 acres in Brazil's Bahia
state for export to China. The Group announced in early 2011 that
as part of a multibillion-dollar investment package in Bahia, it would
develop a soybean industrial park with facilities capable of crushing
1.5 million tons of soybeans per year" (Brown, Chapter 10).
"Ethiopia Saudi Star Agricultural Development, owned by Saudi billionaire
Mohammed Al-Amoudi, leased 24,700 acres for rice production in
Ethiopia's Gambella region in 2010. Paying less than $1.00 per acre
per year for this 50-year lease, the firm was growing rice on just 860
acres as of mid-2012. Eventually, Saudi Star intends to obtain
another 716,000 acres in the region, with much of the rice harvest to
be exported to Saudi Arabia" (Ibid).
"Russia South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries has purchased two
Russian farms totaling more than 40,000 acres north of Vladivostok.
The firm planned to produce 16,000 tons of corn, oats, wheat, and
soybeans on this land in 2012, all of it destined for South Korea" (Ibid).
Securing land for food crops accounts for 37% of large scale land acquisitions (Oct.2008 - Aug. 2009) with the primary targeted regions being Sub-Saharan Africa (70.1%) and Southeast Asia (14.7%).
That being said you had better secure your beach front property and dream home now [ www.Beach-Homes.org ] before prices further rise with the dramatic increase in millionaires worldwide.
Food Insecurity and The Global Land Grab
http://www.PaulFDavis.com Global Health Coach, Food Consultant and Author of "The Future of Food" who has touched 70 Nations teaching wellness body-mind-spirit.
(info@PaulFDavis.com)
http://www.Linkedin.com/in/worldprope...
http://www.Twitter.com/PaulFDavis
http://www.Facebook.com/speakers4insp...
Source:
Lester R. Brown, Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New
Geopolitics of Food Scarcity (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012).
Food Insecurity and The Global Land Grab
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