China set to deepen Argentine trade ties with bid for grains ‘superhighway’

By Hugh Bronstein BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Chinese state-owned construction giant CCCC is preparing a bid to dredge Argentina’s Parana […]

By Aidualc | 30 Oct 19 | Posted in Asia, Commodities, Food for Thought, Latin America, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Visualizing a Rapidly Changing Global Diet

By 2050, there will be two billion more mouths to feed than today. The increase in food supply required to […]

By Aidualc | 27 Dec 17 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, Latin America, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

China Consumes Mind-Boggling Amounts of Raw Materials [Chart]

By Jeff Desjardins, Over the last 20 years, the world economy has relied on the Chinese economic growth engine more […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 23 Oct 17 | Posted in Asia, Commodities, Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Where does the world’s food grow?

By John McArthur and Krista Rasmussen, Brookings Institute, Developing countries are home to roughly 80 percent of the world’s population, […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 03 Apr 16 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Commodities, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Latin America, North America, Private Equity, Real Estate, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Western Europe | Comments (0)

How to play resource scarcity

By Melissa Shin, From http://www.advisor.ca/investments/market-insights/how-to-play-resource-scarcity-113413 By 2050, it’s all over, says Jeremy Grantham: we’ll have either used up all cheap […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 23 Apr 13 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Commodities, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Investment Wisdom, North America, Private Equity, Real Estate, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

The Best Unopened Market in the World

By Chris Mayer, Daily Reckoning, Archibald Colquhoun returned from a trip to Myanmar (Burma) enthusiastic about the opportunities in the […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 03 Dec 12 | Posted in Asia, Commodities, Finding Oxstones, Real Estate | Comments (0)

Will the Crop Crisis Trigger Inflation?

By Bud Conrad, Casey’s Research Our news media have not given enough attention to the very serious heat problems of […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 16 Aug 12 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Commodities, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Latin America, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

U.S. Becomes World’s Bread Basket Again

By Douglas A. McIntyre, From 247WallSt site, New data from the Department of Agriculture shows that, as world demand for […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 01 Mar 12 | Posted in Food for Thought, North America, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Funds Boost Bullish Farm Bets on Shortages

By Elizabeth Campbell, Bloomberg, Funds increased bullish bets on agricultural commodities by the most in more than a year on […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 09 Sep 11 | Posted in Commodities, Hedge Fund | Comments (0)

China shops for Latin American oil, food, minerals

By Ian James, Associated Press, China on Latin American buying spree to lock in long-term needs in oil, minerals, food […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 09 Jun 11 | Posted in Asia, Commodities, Latin America, Private Equity | Comments (0)