Water Scarcity, Food Security Concerns Prompt Global Land Grab (via @circleofblue)

http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2009/world/water-scarcity-food-security-concerns-prompt-global-land-grab/

"An Area nearly the size of France has been purchased, leased for food production around the world while Africa, South America, parts of Europe are targeted by cash-rich, food-poor nations."

"...This week in Rome, the three-day United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization’s World Summit on Food Security will focus on farmland investment, paying particular attention to Qatar, South Korea and other big private and public investors including Saudi Arabia and China. La Via Campesina, the Indonesia-based global peasants movement, which has been critical of the practice, estimates that cross-border investments in farmland have tied up over 110 million acres of farmland worldwide, or an area about two-thirds the size of France. During the summit’s opening statements leaders acknowledged that despite climate change constraining the global water supply, agriculture productivity must increase by 70 percent by 2050 to meet with growing population demands..."

also see: Signs From Earth: Global Farm Land Grabs

http://tinyurl.com/y9j4a8d

also see: Signs From Earth: More Foreign Farmland Buys

http://ddimick.typepad.com/dennis_dimicks_blog/2008/12/more-foreign-farmland-buys.html

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