The Breadbasket of South Korea: Madagascar
Tenant farming was popular in rural America until the Dust Bowl years of the Depression, but the practice is making a comeback on an epic scale in much of Africa. This time, however, the "tenants" are not simply family farmers down on their luck and willing to work land they don't own; they're major international corporations and governments looking to compensate for shortages of arable land in their own countries by setting up massive industrial farms abroad. Full Story »
Posted by Naomi Isler
We are so focused on the financial system's meltdown that we may be missing the meltdown in food production. Agribusiness often leaves land less arable than it found it.