The Global Farms Race highlights information on how the world is right now, how they are doing with food. It illustrates the goal behind investors, capitals and the business for land in different nations. In the book it quotes the former IFPRI director, " A New Phase of the World Food Crisis". Ever since 2008 it is seen that there are rising food prices, food riots and food export bans. Also global food catastrophe inflames continuing food insecurity fueled by the farmland displacing urbanization, water shortages and wheat destroying disease. This eventually results in food importing nations that profit seeks private corporations to begin acquiring farmlands overseas. This helps them cultivate the land themselves and export the harvest back
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These poor nations do not get profit, money or a real contract deal. I agree with the author because through evidence stated in the book I can see how some nations are being targeted and used for their land while the people in that nation are not even getting anything back. Africa is the number one targeted regional area for investments. Ironically, many African nations that give up their farmlands, such as Sudan and Ethiopia, are dependent on the World Food Program Aid. African people are not respected. For example on page 126 it states, “Local communities were never consulted, and yet the land involved had long been occupied and used by local agro-pastoralist." This shows the investors took African land without permission and still never asked or apologized showing no respect what so ever. The second most targeted investor's land is Asia. Investors particularly find Cambodia, Indonesia and Philippines most interesting. In Asia, it is Asian investors, investing for Asian land. For example on page 139 it says," As in Cambodia, most of the land investors are from elsewhere in Asia (in fact, such patterns of intraregional investment prevail throughout Asia)-though due to stricter rules on the size and types of land that can be allocated, hectarages are smaller. “This shows how even in a continent some nations can be much wealthy than others. In this case those nations should work on helping and building the nations, yes they can invest but they should make sure the money and the profits also come beneficial to the poorer countries such as Cambodia. The third most targeted land is Latin America. It is the third most targeted because of its amazing land and fertile soil. It is stated on page 156,"It bears mentioning there that these acquisitions in Brazil are indicative of a far broader dynamic-one dominated by attractiveness of Brazil as a new global axis for
These poor nations do not get profit, money or a real contract deal. I agree with the author because through evidence stated in the book I can see how some nations are being targeted and used for their land while the people in that nation are not even getting anything back. Africa is the number one targeted regional area for investments. Ironically, many African nations that give up their farmlands, such as Sudan and Ethiopia, are dependent on the World Food Program Aid. African people are not respected. For example on page 126 it states, “Local communities were never consulted, and yet the land involved had long been occupied and used by local agro-pastoralist." This shows the investors took African land without permission and still never asked or apologized showing no respect what so ever. The second most targeted investor's land is Asia. Investors particularly find Cambodia, Indonesia and Philippines most interesting. In Asia, it is Asian investors, investing for Asian land. For example on page 139 it says," As in Cambodia, most of the land investors are from elsewhere in Asia (in fact, such patterns of intraregional investment prevail throughout Asia)-though due to stricter rules on the size and types of land that can be allocated, hectarages are smaller. “This shows how even in a continent some nations can be much wealthy than others. In this case those nations should work on helping and building the nations, yes they can invest but they should make sure the money and the profits also come beneficial to the poorer countries such as Cambodia. The third most targeted land is Latin America. It is the third most targeted because of its amazing land and fertile soil. It is stated on page 156,"It bears mentioning there that these acquisitions in Brazil are indicative of a far broader dynamic-one dominated by attractiveness of Brazil as a new global axis for