"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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In fewer words: thirded.
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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 ( ... )
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Also Mark Twain and Henry George have some crossover.
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We should get an account for you on the system.
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