INQUISITION NEWS: China looks abroad to grow its own food

China looks abroad to grow its own food · January 03, 2011

In a far-sighted move, China is seeking to grow its own food outside of China. By buying large tracts of farmland in Africa, Australia, Latin America and even in the United States, China is hoping to ensure food sources for its teeming cities.

“As food prices rise, the Chinese government is anxious about food security… The country has long tried to be self-sufficient despite having only eight per cent of the world’s tillable farmland to feed more than a fifth of its population… Using land in Africa as a solution is already under way… Companies are buying and leasing land across Africa, sending out Chinese labourers and producing crops for sale on the world market – and back home.”

And some countries are concerned. In Australia, for instance, “more than $9 billion of prized agricultural assets have been sold to offshore interests in the past two years alone,” The Daily Telegraph said. Nationals MP Mark Coulton… said there was concern that some key properties in western NSW were falling into foreign hands.” Agricultural land in Australia is relatively cheap,” he told reporters on Monday. Foreign companies have longed played a major role in the Australian agriculture sector, but increasingly those companies and governments have been moving to acquire land as well as businesses.

“Earlier this year a Senate committee recommended an audit be undertaken to establish the extent of foreign ownership of commercial agricultural and pastoral land, and ownership of water in Australia.

The committee wanted a particular emphasis on ownership by sovereign and part-sovereign owned companies.” Since then the Gillard Government announced a large-scale audit into the matter.

But China isn’t the only nation doing this. Other nations and city-states, mainly Asian and middle eastern, are also buying up large tracts of land.

“Along with land, the United States and Britain are moving into the domestic water market at a time of heightened tension over control of the vital asset.

In our sermon for December, Nimrod’s Empire and the New World Order, we predicted that nations and city-states would, in future, buy up large tracts of farmland to protect and control their own flood supply. We also predicted that nations and city-states would buy up water resources.

Jesus taught us that there will be famines (food and water shortages) just before Jesus comes (See Matthew 24:7, Mark 13:8, Luke 21:11, Romans 8:35). Some nations, seeing the potential for this, have already begun the process of buying control of these resources.