The scourge of unsightly images of plastic refuse littering our beaches and oceans always receives much attention. But a new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) suggests that the land we use to grow our food is contaminated with far larger quantities of plastic pollution, posing an even greater […]
China plans to spend huge amounts of money to improve farmland quality in the next few years in hopes of propping up grain supplies as shrinking arable land has put the world’s most populous country under pressure to feed its people, the official Xinhua news agency reported. A total of around $88 billion will be […]
Not long ago a Chinese company came very close to owning one percent of the Australian landmass. But then a smart treasury official stopped a $370 million cattle ranch deal between the Chinese and S. Kidman & Company, Australia’s largest private landowner that controls more than 100,000 square kilometres. However, even if that deal had […]
