The China Africa Project
05.16.16

Why Chinese Agriculture Engagement in Africa is Not What it Seems

Eric Olander, Cobus van Staden & more

The Western and African media have long fueled the myth that Chinese investors are buying up vast tracts of land across...

China-Ukraine: No Massive Farm Deal... Yet

Contrary to a flurry of Monday news reports, China has not inked a massive agriculture investment giving it ownership of some 5 per cent of land in Ukraine, itself ...

Caixin Media
11.26.12

When Tradition is Flattened by Policy

A “tomb-flattening policy” in Henan province has sparked intense controversy, with millions of tombs reportedly destroyed by local authorities in a quest to turn graveyards into farmland.

The policy can be seen as a historical extension of...