Just a few thousand hectares of your land, please

[nairiporter]

"Buy land, they're not making it anymore", Mark Twain famously urged his audience. These words have been the motto of the markets for agricultural land for a long time, and they describe the mindset of the active land buyers across the developing world.

During the last decade, agricultural land (mostly across Africa and South-East Asia) roughly

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[johnny9fingers]

Recommended.

[htpcl]

As the OP once said herself, sometimes it's best to just sit back and imbibe the read.

In fewer words: thirded.

[peristaltor]

Recommended. Nice run-down.

The same is valid for rampant soil erosion, and chronic drought in some regions, and extreme climatic phenomena in other regions that could potentially have a long-term impact on the food production in entire regions of the world.

What's worse, according to what I've been digging into, that "rampant soil erosion . . . chronic drought . . . and extreme climatic phenomena" are probably the direct result of the type of agriculture these lessees wish to pursue. In other words, taking "fallow" land (with biota-rich soil), stripping from it the natural processes that make it biota-rich (herbivore and predator relationship) and instead mining that biota for food production, then shipping the resulting food elsewhere will exacerbate the already piss-poor conditions in these countries, while allowing the food-receiving countries an extended period free of food worries

[luzribeiro]

Hope springs eternal that anyone who matters would listen to your plea. Some economies are getting rather desperate for food, and when push comes to shove, all masks fall down and the predators reveal their true colors. Locals be damned.

[tcpip]

Recommended and I want to repost it you know where with your permission.

Also Mark Twain and Henry George have some crossover.

[nairiporter]

Of course! Go ahead. :-)

[tcpip]

Brilliant, and just done.

We should get an account for you on the system.

[nairiporter]

I'm flattered, but unfortunately I'm nowhere near the critical level of activeness that would probably be required to warrant an account. But you can feel free to re-post there! :-)

[sophia_sadek]

I am all in favor of Pagan Eco-Terrorist Goddesses:

[luzribeiro]

You do come across as both someone who would be in favor of terrorism and much into weird idolatry, yes.

[sophia_sadek]

There is a significant difference between favoring eco-terrorist goddesses and favoring terrorism.

[luzribeiro]

I'm sure you believe so.