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Singh's plan centered on Gurgaon, a dry, scrubby plain in the state of Haryana, near New Delhi. If he could buy enough land and then convince authorities to change their regulations preventing companies from acquiring farmland for commercial use, perhaps he could outdo his father-in-law's success. By 1981, though, the company had acquired just 40 acres and failed to change the law. Frustrated and despondent, he sat beside a well one scorching summer day. What the heck can you do in this place? he recalls wondering...
John Peterson is a man who doesn’t just farm the land—he eats it. In the opening scenes of his upcoming movie, “The Real Dirt on Farmer John,” Peterson ruminates over a patch of farmland like a wine connoisseur sampling a rare vintage...
...speaking with Haugerud at Tryst, the sprawling nightclub at the Wynn Las Vegas, where champagne is flowing freely and folks are beginning to loosen up after a cerebral day of presentations. Can this be the same person whose talk on buying farmland in Argentina, Brazil and the Midwest was intimidating in its attention to detail? In one breath she's discussing how the price per acre for Iowa farmland is not far from its nominal highs reached in 1973; in another she's recounting her early professional life in Geneva and how much fun she had. She seems almost normal...
...corner of eastern Australia. It's the region's worst and longest-lasting drought in over a century, and dead flower beds and brown football fields are the least of their worries. Toowoomba was the go-to city for a large rural area, including nearby Darling Downs, a fertile farmland, until the rain went away and never came back. "We've been in water restriction in Toowoomba since 1992," says Dianne Thorley, the city's mayor of eight years. "Australia [is] drying up, a little bit like a dried apple...
...acres of wild places, from tall grass prairies to mangrove swamps to alpine forests, that have been saved thanks to the Nature Conservancy. Botanist Richard Goodwin was one of the founders of the Conservancy in 1951, and he fervently believed that environmental protection begins at home. Goodwin donated the farmland he lived on in Connecticut and constantly pushed to expand the group's preservation efforts. So far, the Conservancy has protected well over 100 million acres (40 million hectares) in the U.S. and nearly 30 other countries...