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TheBlackAdder

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4. My Emerging Economies course had peer research that China is on a Global land acquisition initiative
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 08:33 AM
Aug 2016

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They have acquired rights to millions of acres of Central and South American croplands.

Millions of acres of cropland in Africa, and millions of others scattered across the Pacific rim and Eurasia.


While US companies act at a corporate level, China is acting as a Nation State, securing food and natural resources that will carry themselves into the next century. The acquisition of a fertiliter, seed and pesticide company makes perfect sense.



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