Touch the Soil News #1700 (Feature Photo – Satellite Image of the UAE. Notice how much of the nation is desert – courtesy of NASA, Public Domain)
Farmlandgrab.org brings the story of what nations who must import most of their food are willing to do. The United Arab Emirates (UAE), a desert nation of 10 million people is investing in a farm 4,500 miles away in Indonesia. Work is beginning to create a farming enterprise of 365,000 acres. That equates to a farm that is 10 miles wide and almost 60 miles long. You can read the story here:
