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