'Land Grabbing': Foreign Investors Buy Up Third World Farmland

[Mario B]

A number of developing nations have sold or leased much of their farmland to foreign investors. The list is led by Liberia, whose arable land is 100 percent under foreign ownership.

 

 

The process is known as "land grabbing," and it is affecting countries in Africa, South America, Asia and Eastern Europe. Around half of the farmland of the Philippines is owned by foreign investors. In Ukraine, American companies have secured over one-third of the country's farmland.

 

Population growth in countries like India and Brazil is driving up demand for cereal crops, and investments in farmlands offer the chance of solid returns.

 

In many cases, the population suffers from this new form of colonialism, and the planting of monocultures tends to sap the soil.

 

 

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/foreign-investors-are-buying-up-farmland-in-third-world-a-884306.html

[Mario B]

The list is led by Liberia, whose arable land is 100 percent under foreign ownership.

:eek::eek:

[Tallaabo]

No surprise there from the Africans.

[Homunculus]

Soon farmland in Somalia will be more valuable than any piece of land,I hope Somalis will be smarter than the other countries in East Africa.

[Rahima]

^Going by our track record (i.e. how we have allowed the pollution of our seas)- i doubt it. We might as well get ready for the second wave of colonialism.