With rich, resource-poor nations increasingly outsourcing their food production to less developed nations, a new website aims to expose the extent of the agricultural land-grab epidemic
… Agriculture Africa Food Production Food China Neo-colonial Laos Saudi Arabia Japan IIED IFAD FAO … time. Not for nothing has it been dubbed a neo-colonial enterprise. South Korea and China …
The uniting of 800 million rural workers against the loss of their traditional way of life gives lie to globalisation’s claims to beneficence. Resistance is far from futile, says Ed Hamer
… from his rural home in India to an ex-colonial capital more than 5,000 miles away, … only offered in return for a commitment to neo-liberal reforms of its agriculture sector. … Organization] have recognised that this neoliberal model of world development has been …
The creation of a new and neutral currency unit linked to the environment would stabilise the economy and reduce CO<sub>2</sub>.
… the world’s countries were still ‘owned’ by colonial powers; their interests were not … of the new economic paradigm. Without it, neo-Keynesian attempts to reinflate the …
Wealthy countries and agribusiness want farmland, poorer countries need capital – but what happens to the locals? By Martin Large and Neil Ravenscroft
… their peasants at home prepared British colonialists to expropriate land in Patagonia … land-grab is being driven by the ideology of neo-economic liberalism of the free market, … traditional agriculture. Second, neo-liberal economics treats such commons as …
A man of extraordinary humanity - as comfortable discussing farming with labourers as he was holding forth on the very nature of life itself. Peter Bunyard pays tribute to the rich life of Edward Goldsmith
… Their theory, in sharp contrast to the neo-Darwinist ideas that a constant pulse of … mass immigration or through the imposition of colonial rule or, as is happening now, through …
The vast dams clogging the veins of Africa are instruments of control rather than promised hydroelectric liberation. Khadija Sharife investigates.
… that Africa’s dependence on hydropower simultaneously exports blackouts and energy shortages … to be the name of the new Great Game, with ‘neo-colonial’ powers such as China aggressively …