A new study has been released by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), which calls into question the unsustainable global food export system based upon unsustainable export volumes of virtual water. The first sentence sums it up: Population growth is in general constrained by food production, which in turn depends on the [...]
It’s the deal of the century: £150 a week to lease more than 2,500 sq km (1,000 sq miles) of virgin, fertile land – an area the size of Dorset – for 50 years. … Gambella has offered investors 1.1 million hectares, nearly a quarter of its best farmland, and 896 companies have come to [...]
