Posted by Matt in November 28th, 2009 |
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Africa,
Acreage,
Agribusinesses,
Agriculture,
Arab Oil,
Businessweek,
Crops,
Developing Countries,
Farmland,
Fascination,
Fear,
Goldman Sachs,
Homelands,
Investor,
Land Rush,
Latin-America,
Morgan Stanley,
Oil Countries,
Sachs Gs,
Tracts,
Water Land
Farmland in developing countries has become an unlikely object of investor fascination. Goldman Sachs (GS), and Morgan Stanley (MS) are each raising hundreds of millions of dollars for agriculture funds aimed at Africa and Latin America. Agribusinesses in the U.S. are leasing vast tracts of African land from which they expect to export crops and [...]
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Posted by Matt in June 11th, 2008 |
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China,
Water,
beijing,
Beijing China,
Capacity Resources,
China,
Consumption,
Ecosystems,
Natural Resources,
Water Land,
Wwf,
Wwf China
If China were to follow the U.S. in individual demand on natural resources, it would need the available capacity of the entire planet, the report issued by WWF in Beijing said.
China uses 15 percent of the world’s total biological capacity—resources such as water, land and timber, the report said.
“In the next 10 to 20 years, [...]
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