Showing posts with label Land-Grabbing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Land-Grabbing. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Feeding the 1 Percent

Grain

Since the global food crisis of 2008, there has been a massive wave of private sector investment in agriculture. More money flowing into agriculture means more innovation and modernisation, more jobs and more food for a hungry planet, say the G8, the World Bank and corporate investors themselves.


But does it? Story here.

Mangrove forests are healing after decades of human destruction

The BBC A mangrove swamp in Indonesia. Photo by Adnankasogi. The world's coastal mangrove forests, which protect millions of people from...