A WORLD FOR SALE

摘要

Buyland," Mark Twain Suggests In The Quote That Opens This Book "They're not making it any more." Some of the world's richest investors have been following Twain's advice, especially since global food prices spiked in 2008. China's forays into Africa have gotten the most attention, but Asia and South America are also prime targets, and the Chinese are hardly the only buyers. Saudi oil billionaires, London investors, and U.S. pension fund managers are all driving what the British journalist Fred Pearce calls a "global land grab" that is converting vast areas of the world to industrial farming.