"The food and financial crises combined have turned agricultural land into a new strategic asset,"

Around the world, food-poor but cash-rich countries, spooked by last season's high food prices, are racing to snap up rights to farmland in developing countries and breadbasket nations. They're aiming to boost their own food security and cash in on what might prove one of the few sound investments left in a world in financial crisis.
This global land grab could spell the end of small-scale farming and rural livelihoods in numerous places around the world.
Just how much security the new land investments may provide countries and corporations also remains uncertain. "That's the nightmare scenario, that (investors) jump in, lose their money, the operation shuts down, and five years later you have recriminations and rusting machinery" as well as more landless peasants.

Crop experts also warn that past efforts to create huge-scale corporate grain farming have regularly failed, one reason family-owned farms continue to dominate in the United States, one of the world's biggest grain producers. They point to Soviet Union's disastrous collective farms and the collapse of a variety of large-scale colonial farming efforts in Africa as indications of what could go wrong. DON´T BUY B4 talking with to us..+351 96 008 15 10

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