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DK Matai, chairman of the ATCA Open has written a terrific essay about how global shipping has come to a halt because of the lack of letters of credit.

Just five months ago it cost about $234,000 to rent a 170,000 tonne Capesize bulk carrier. That priced has collapsed 98 per cent to less than $5,000!

That means that globalization has come to a screeching halt. Read more:

The Global Shipping Halt: Is The Great Unwind Disrupting The Freight Market?

By DK Matai

Freight shipping prices for transporting dry raw materials have collapsed in November 2008. The Great Unwind is like a Tsunami that is engulfing and halting the shipping world at an accelerating rate. The Baltic Dry Index sounds like a weather report, but what it really does is track the price of shipping bulk cargo -- such as coal, iron ore, cotton and grain. Recently, the Baltic Dry Index has fallen through the floor. It has slumped by nearly 95% over the past five months. In real dollar terms, at the peak of the market in June, a 170,000-tonne Capesize bulk carrier cost USD 233,988 to rent. Recently, it was available for USD 4,793 - that is a crash of 98% and is below the cost of paying for crew, insurance, maintenance and lubricants. Why?

1. Of the USD 13.6 trillion of goods and materials traded worldwide per annum, 90% rely on letters of credit or related forms of financing and guarantees such as trade credit insurance. International shipping works on "letters of credit." These financial guarantees are issued to buyers of bulk cargo by their banks. This system has greased the wheels of global trade for the last 400 years by transferring payments internationally from buyer to seller once shipments have been delivered. With the collapse of the credit market - and banks now sitting on their hands, refusing to lend - the fast-moving wheels of global shipping have come close to halt.

2. There is a collapsing demand for credit driven expensive product purchases like cars and as a consequence, the transport of associated raw materials and sub-assemblies. Auto sales are falling in double digit percentages across most of the G7, ie, the US, Japan, Germany, UK, France, Italy and Canada. The pace of car sales growth is slowing down across most of the remaining G20 nations as well, including China and India.

This is a massive disruption in the freight market with asymmetric consequences for world trade, which poses systemic risk for many nation states. Liquidity has to return because if there is insufficient money to provide standard finance, world trade is being sharply cut back and economic growth is not only stalling but likely to implode. If cargo trade stops, a whole lot of supply chain disruptions start. For example, if the iron ore does not go to the refinery, there is no plate steel. If the plate steel does not get shipped, there is nothing to fabricate into components. If there are no components, there is nothing to assemble in the factory. If the factory closes the assembly line, there are no finished goods. If there are no finished goods, there is nothing to restock the shelves of the shops. If there is nothing in the shops, the consumers cannot buy. If the consumers cannot buy, there can be no sales!

On a more sobering note, if bulk shippers cannot buy cargoes, then a lot of US and world grain could end up rotting in warehouses while big portions of the world go hungry. For example, the Saudis are the biggest importers of food in the Middle East. They probably have the money to pay cash for their food shipments and may not therefore need letters of credit. But for the approximately 2.7 billion people in the world who spend 80% of their income on food, a disruption in the global shipping trade could mean the difference between quiet poverty and going hungry day-in, day-out. That will not last for long before there is social disorder on a massive scale.

The Baltic Exchange based in London is the world's leading maritime marketplace. Their dry index, a measure of shipping costs across different ship sizes, hit a record high of 11,793 points in May but has since fallen by 93% to 815 points last week. The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has said that the financial crisis had begun to affect international trade, noting sharp falls to key shipping indices. Much lower shipping costs mean national markets are more contestable by foreigners, which should limit the ability of domestic firms to raise prices and therefore this should reduce the possibility of inflation. We can safely conclude that the majority of The Great Unwind's forces moving through the markets now seem to be deflationary, and not inflationary.

The ravaged worldwide demand for cargo ships is due to the chronic global financial crisis affecting credit availability, an unprecedented synchronised economic downturn across most of the major national economies in the world caused by massive demand destruction, and the resultant collapse in commodity prices. At the same time, container rates in the Asia-Europe routes have plummeted by around 75% this year and a price war between companies seems to be driving rates lower and lower, destroying the profitability of container shipping and placing huge stresses on companies struggling to meet their commitments. A significant component of the dramatic decline in shipping indices has been due to the difficulty in arranging trade finance during the credit crunch. Demand has been slashed because the global credit squeeze has made it very difficult for buyers to attract funding. At the same time, perceived counter-party risk in the physical markets has slowed trading to a trickle, exacerbating the freight slide. Many big players involved in the shipping of dry commodities and goods cargo are unwilling to trade with some parties fearful of their financial footing. There are big chains of owners of the chartered ships in the supply chain, so if someone goes bankrupt half way through the chain, it has a knock-on domino effect for everybody else. Another problem is that there are quite a significant number of players walking away from cargoes at present. So anyone who has taken cargoes to hedge the vessels they have chartered is now finding themselves with the ship without the cargo to carry.

ArcelorMittal, the world's biggest steelmaker, on November 5th said its global output will decline by more than 30 percent. Cia Vale do Rio Doce, the world's biggest iron-ore producer, said last month that it will cut production.The fall in demand for many raw materials, which began at the beginning of June, first squeezed the profit margins of producers since they faced fixed high raw material costs and falling prices for their finished products. This was followed shortly by a squeeze of freight costs as they tried to pass the pressure from the profit margins to the freight market. One could be forgiven for not noticing what the world has experienced in recent years by way of an unprecedented growth in shipping and shipbuilding, fuelled by cheap imports from Asia and the seemingly unstoppable rise of economies such as China and India with their insatiable demand for raw materials. For some time charter rates went through the roof and reached a zenith in May/June this year and demand for new ships out-stripped supply. A different picture is now emerging. Companies are starting to struggle with too many ships chasing ever decreasing rates.

This slump not only means a fall in revenues but also less revenues to service debts. In turn, the current 'credit crunch' means extreme difficulties for struggling shipping companies seeking to raise capital. UNCTAD revealed in its annual maritime transport review that the world's merchant fleet had expanded to a record 1.12 billion deadweight tons, with the order book for new vessels reaching a peak of 10,053 ships in 2008. However, from mid-2008, companies were cancelling new ships on order, even when they were losing their 10% deposit in tens of millions of dollars. Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL), Japan's largest bulk shipping company is said to be considering laying-up and even scrapping vessels as revenues collapse. MOL may mothball some of its largest vessels. The company is considering scrapping seven of its Capesize dry bulk ships from its fleet of a 100 vessels. This suggests that MOL may be getting ready for a protracted down turn lasting several years. Reports are already filtering through of companies seeking sheltered waters to lay up their giant vessels to weather the financial storm. Just as in the days following the oil crisis in 1973, we could see the same happening with the great lumbering bulkers and container vessels, which now seem less and less attractive as they ply the waters with their great bellies less than full. In the space of less than half a year we have seen the shipping world ride the crest of a massive globalisation expansionary wave and then plunge into a financial storm that could sweep most vessels off our oceans, and with them, companies who cannot weather the crisis caused by The Great Unwind.

We welcome your thoughts, observations and views. To reflect further on this, please respond within Facebook's ATCA Open discussion board.

Best wishes

DK Matai

Chairman, ATCA Open

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divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/84041?ns=guardianpageName=Comment+is+free%3A+Tomorrow%2C+Mr+Darling+must+introduce+morality+into+the+Citych=Comment+is+freec3=The+Observerc4=Pre-budget+report%2CEconomic+policy%2CCredit+crunch+%28Business%29%2CAlistair+Darling%2CLabour%2CTax+and+spending%2CEconomics+%28Business%29%2CBusiness%2CExecutive+salaries+%28Business%29%2CObserverc5=Personal+Finance%2CCredit+Crunch%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CBusiness+Marketsc6=Will+Huttonc7=2008_11_23c8=1122582c9=articlec10=GUc11=Comment+is+freec12=blogc13=c14=Comment+is+freeh2=GU%2FComment+is+free%2Fblog%2FComment+is+free" width="1" height="1" //divpThe pre-Budget report is the most important economic moment in the 11-year life of the Labour government. Chancellor Alistair Darling has to walk the finest of lines. He has to marshal well-directed and overwhelming financial force to limit recession, while simultaneously and credibly persuading everybody that he has not lost control of the longest sequence of big Budget deficits outside wartime./ppGet it right and Labour has a chance of winning the next election. Get it wrong and his party will be back in the wilderness./ppFor the last six weeks, Treasury economists and officials have been assessing and reassessing the outlook for the economy and the government's rapidly deteriorating finances. Meanwhile, the wider economic news has got ever gloomier. It will be no surprise that the Treasury is forecasting a significant recession and slow recovery. The problem is that the banking crisis has wrecked the relationships and assumptions on which economic forecasts are made. Reality could be very much worse than expectations./ppThe City of London has landed our country in a mess. Nobody has yet gone as far as the Swiss UBS and invited the incompetent, overpaid monsters at the top to repay their bonuses. They should. Sir Tom Mckillop, outgoing chair of the Royal Bank of Scotland, is so far alone in saying sorry to his investors. Yet having mistakenly once lent far too much, banks are now mistakenly lending far too little./ppAddressing this crisis - as much moral as economic - should be at the heart of the pre-Budget statement. Keynesian economics, I have repeatedly argued, is not so much borrowing and printing money in recessions - although vital in an emergency - it is using every tool possible to persuade and cajole banks and building societies to lend./ppDarling must concentrate his limited funds on creating instruments and policies to stop the destabilising herd effects. The more effective and imaginative he is, the more he will be able to argue that the downturn will be limited and the more the public finances can be stabilised./ppHe has already signalled a willingness to overhaul the cautious and punitively expensive small business loan guarantee scheme. Young small businesses pay 2 per cent on top of their borrowing rate as an insurance policy to reassure the lending bank it will get its money back. The insurance premium needs to be slashed and every small business should qualify. Banks would start to provide much needed working capital./ppBut Darling needs to go much further. For a relatively small amount of money - low billions - he could radically extend cheap insurance schemes across targeted areas of bank lending so that banks would know that, come what may, they will get their loans repaid and thus lend with more confidence. For example, banks used to issue securities to raise money for mortgage finance; the market is shut, but could be reopened, as Treasury adviser Sir James Crosby has urged, with a guarantee. Darling should do it./ppThe same principle should extend to home owners. Darling should create a scheme to allow ordinary borrowers to insure the equity in their homes so they can lock in some wealth. We also need to take the first steps towards the reinvention of the bust British banking system. Darling should announce a new national infrastructure bank along the lines Barack Obama has suggested in the US. /ppHe should also announce a major inquiry into British corporate governance. We can't go on with a system in which directors essentially award themselves bonuses for non-performance. I would introduce a financial services bonus tax - 75 per cent for one year bonuses, but tapering downwards to the standard tax system for long-term bonuses./ppThese measures won't stop the recession, but they could mitigate it. And Darling badly needs a powerful story about why this will be a nasty recession but not worse. As it is, the character of this downturn is devastating the government's tax receipts. More than a quarter of corporation tax came from the financial services sector in 2006/7. No more. Capital gains tax folds in an era of plunging property and share prices. Income from stamp duty on house sales will fall by two-thirds. This recession is going to hit the tax base much more savagely than the last one in the early 1990s./ppThen the peak budget deficit, driven by social security spending and falling tax receipts, rose to nearly 8 per cent of GDP, which in today's terms would be around pound;120bn. This time round, it is bound to be higher. The peak deficit in this economic cycle could rise to 10 per cent of GDP or a mind-boggling pound;150bn. Only between 1940 and 1945 will the UK have borrowed so much for so long./ppThe Conservatives' political bet is that if there are further tax cuts and spending increases, financing these moves is going to force the government into a corner. Which is why Darling's extra borrowing has to be used effectively and boldly; although the deficit is necessarily high, we are at the limits of normal finance without resorting to the money printing press and there may be more demands on the state further to recapitalise a bust banking system before the recession is over. /ppHis firepower has to be directed overwhelmingly on boosting bank lending. He should not be seduced into permanent tax cuts but, instead, offer a one-off tax credit for the low paid who are most likely to spend it. Anything left should be focused on incentives for employers to retain workers, public works programmes and bringing forward whatever capital spending he can. Don't underestimate the capacity of very low interest rates and a devalued pound to help to put a floor under the economy./ppThere are no easy fixes. The next 18 months are going to blight all our lives. Which is why there must be a moral dimension to tomorrow, along with the economics. Darling cannot legislate for those bonuses to be repaid or history to be rerun, but the truth should be baldly stated. It was the greed of a few that has plunged the many into hard times./ppFighting this recession should lay the foundations for a different way of doing capitalism in the future, one that is fairer, longer term and less skewed towards the interests of the City. The rebuilding of the financial system and a more moral system of taxation must begin tomorrow. /ppIf Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown dare to say it, they would find not just their party but the whole country behind them./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/pre-budget-report"Pre-budget report/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/economy"Economic policy/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/creditcrunch"Credit crunch/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/alistairdarling"Alistair Darling/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/labour"Labour/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/taxandspending"Tax and spending/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/economics"Economics/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/executivesalaries"Executive salaries/a/li/ul/divdiv class="guRssAdvert"a href="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/click.ng/richmedia=yessite=Commentisfreecountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227399527460112300260553996"img src="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/image.ng/richmedia=yessite=Commentisfreecountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227399527460112300260553996" border="0" //a/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a

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There will be casualties in the restaurant trade as a result of the current economic turmoil; I sincerely hope London's Buddha Bar is one of them./ppI should have given up after the hassle of booking. Not merely the five minutes of thrashing hold music nor the irritating demand for my first name (and my usual reply that I only wanted to book a table, not be their pen friend), but also the requirement that I supply an email address. Why? 'Because it's the only way we can confirm you have a reservation.' Really? So putting the name down in a book, the method that's worked for a century or more, isn't good enough? Absolutely not, for when the email arrives it reveals that any table booked before 10pm must be given back within two hours and that, while there is a bar, they don't guarantee you'll be allowed in to it. There is a particular word I could use here, but I refuse to denigrate the honest pleasures of self-abuse purely to make a point./ppThe London Buddha Bar is part of an international chain. Previously I visited the outpost in Dubai and was struck there by the late middle age of the male clientele, and the oestrogen-rich youth of their friends, who were doubtless their nieces. Here, as there, hedge fund-sized buckets of cash have been spent on filling an empty space (under Waterloo Bridge) with gargantuan Asian artefacts and then turning the lights down so low you can't see any of them. The only one you can see is the enormous Buddha; even as a diehard, to-the-barricades atheist I find the exploitation of a religious symbol like this offensive. There is just enough light by which to read the pan-Asian menu, which was a shame, because it meant we could order./ppThe food is that killer combination of stupendously clumsy and grossly overpriced. pound;10 worth of wok-fried salt and pepper calamari and frog's legs was leathery, greasy and unrelenting. The only contrast came from the frog's legs, which promised a little light haemorrhage as the hidden bones punctured your mouth. Worse, and pound;5 more expensive, was the crayfish and crawfish summer roll, speaking gloomily of an Icelandic summer of wind and rain and general hardship: flavourless crayfish, mushy avocado, dull shredded carrots. The rice-based wrap was so dry as to be edible, but only if you had no choice. We did, so we didn't./ppNext, some sushi: pound;3 a piece, minimum order two pieces. I looked at the unglossy lozenge of tuna. I ran my finger along its edge. It was hard, as if it had been cut long before being plated. Eel and turbot were lifeless. Of the main courses the most cynical was pound;26 for a meagre portion of Korean seared beef, tender but tasteless, then smeared with a pungent - read unpleasant - tomato sauce. In an attempt to complete the tour of Asia we also had a Thai-style red curry with shrimp, and it was indeed in the style of a Thai curry much as Zimbabwe is in the style of a democracy. The small shrimps - seven of them for pound;16.50 - were served mixed in with rice inside the husk of a coconut, with the slick of red curry sauce in a saucer on the side. I genuinely do not understand how any self-respecting kitchen can serve up trash like this, at these prices, and still find the will to get up in the morning./ppAnd so to dessert, 'the best part of the meal' as the waiter said. We live in hope, I replied. Only to have it dashed, for the Buddha Bar is where hope, like the ingredients, goes to die. A chocolate fondue for pound;12.50 - sorry to go on about the prices, but really - brought something congealing in a bowl, without a burner to keep it moving, some friable, dusty meringues, a couple of crumbly biscuits of the sort that are served after Jewish funerals and a little flavour-free fruit. Was there anything to recommend the place? Yes, our waiter, who was cheerful and efficient and completely wasted here. Save yourself, my friend. Get a job elsewhere. You don't deserve this. 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pspan style=font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana;img alt=BCS border=0 class=at-xid-6a00d83451cfe769e201053617cb28970c src=http://johnharmstrong.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451cfe769e201053617cb28970c-800wi style=margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; title=BCS / For those of you who are not fans of college football, and you do have my sincere sympathy, you may not have taken notice that our president-elect has a strong opinion regarding the question of how to determine the number one college football team in America. Obama, speaking on CBS#39; quot;60 Minutes,quot; recently said, quot;If you#39;ve got a bunch of teams who play throughout the season, and many of them have one loss or two losses, there#39;s no clear, decisive winner. We should be creating a playoff system.quot; /span/ppspan style=font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana;As one who thinks the playoff system is emnot/em needed I find it interesting that one of the first places Barack Obama decided to use his quot;bully pulpitquot; was related to the question of determing the number one college football team in America. The Bowl Championship Series (BCS), which is the current system that uses rankings and computers to determine who plays who in the bowls and who plays for number one at the end of the season, is emnot/em a perfect system by a long shot. But it is not nearly as bad as the president-elect thinks. Let me explain./spanspan style=font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana;/span/ppspan style=font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana;Obama says, quot;I would add three weeks to the college season. You could trim back the regular season. I don#39;t know any serious fan of college football who has disagreed with me. So I#39;m going to throw my weight around a little bit. I think it#39;s the right thing to do.quot; /span/ppspan style=font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana;Well, with all due respect Mr. President-elect, I am a serious fan and I may not represent a majority vote in the opinion polls but I do disagree with you strongly.img alt=Trophy border=0 class=at-xid-6a00d83451cfe769e20105360f872f970b src=http://johnharmstrong.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451cfe769e20105360f872f970b-800wi style=margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; title=Trophy //span /ppspan style=font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana;The common argument goes as follows. No major sport settles its championship the way college football does. I ask, quot;What#39;s wrong with being the one sport that is unique? Why must college football crown a champion the same way every other sport does?quot; From the end of August until January the fans of this great sport are in a continual discussion and debate about who is really the best team. Right now one fan says the best team is Texas Tech and another says Alabama. Then other teams jump in and say we could beat either of these two. The whole thing makes for great interest and friendly debate. I like the debate, the disagreements and the human mistakes. I like the idea that the human element comes to bear upon the whole sport in a very big way. What is wrong with that? Must college football become the minor leagues of the NFL? /span/ppspan style=font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana;Look, in the present system you cannot afford to overlook anybody. Ask USC about Oregon State? Their fans think their number one but they will likely never get a chance to prove it. Why? They didn#39;t prepare and play against Oregon State like a great team should have done. Then they blow away Washington State and Washington teams in their league but so what? emThey lost to Oregon State/em. And if being undefeated is the sole issue then Ball State and Boise State should get a shot. The eight team plan leaves them both watching on the outside based on Obama#39;s idea. /span/ppspan style=font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana;Under the current system even the fans of Boise State get to brag and guess and even sometimes play mighty Oklahom, like two years ago in a BCS bowl, which Boise State actually won in one of the best games you would ever wish to see. It was unforgettable. And the present system is lucrative if nothing else. ESPN just signed a big contract to cover the BCS from 2011 through 2014. This is good for everyone, not just a few powerhouse teams. /span/ppspan style=font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana;Look, my team is sitting at number one. But they still have to win it on the field. Beating Auburn is not a cake walk. Beating Florida seems unlikely to many. Then, and only then, would they play in the Fed Ex Championship game on January 8, 2009. I would say if they go 13-0 and then beat whoever the BCS puts against them they deserve to be number one and need not play two more games to prove anything. /span/ppspan style=font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana;The moral of the story is simple---don#39;t lose. Play well enough every week to win. Stay focused for the entire season. Persevere. Beat teams that are of less talent (e.g., Oregon State) when you are supposed to beat them. People say Alabama only beat Kentucky by 3 and Ole Miss by 4. So what. They won! That is what the game is about, not style points and running up a huge score on vastly inferior teams. /span/ppspan style=font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana;span style=text-decoration: underline;a href=http://johnharmstrong.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451cfe769e20105360f8781970b-pi style=float: left;img alt=6367d230af38928f089c89915657db7d class=at-xid-6a00d83451cfe769e20105360f8781970b src=http://johnharmstrong.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451cfe769e20105360f8781970b-320wi style=margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; //a /spanemChicago Tribune/em columnist Rick Morrissey, a writer who agrees with me, says: quot;Mr. Obama, a college playoff system is a change we don#39;t need, but I can see you#39;re unwilling to budge. I wonder what Vladimir Putin thinks about this.quot; /span/ppspan style=font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana;I love the debates and the disagreements. I love that my team has to run the table to win it all this year. If they do then they deserve to be number one. If they don#39;t then Florida, or someone else, will be. I can live with that and love the game for it all the more. In my day Alabama lost several quot;mythicalquot; titles for reasons I will not go into in this post. (In 1966 they were the undefeated, beat a great Nebraska team in a bowl, but Notre Dame finished No. 1 after settling for a tie with Michigan State. Don#39;t get me started on that one. For me the deabte is for a lifetime and that makes it fun. And then there was the loss to Texas in the Orange Bowl when Joe Namath scored and the referees missed it.) It all makes for great angst and even more determination to show those coaches and writers the next season. Isn#39;t the fun of it all what this game is really about, not the system or the fairness of it? The players play for the game and the fans love it. Everyone has a chance to play a big bowl game and finish the year on a high note in the current system. The playoff guarantees that only emone/em team is really satisfied in the end. The uniqueness of many schools attaining high goals and still not being number one is a great part of this sport. Mr. Obama, you have spoken. Now spend your time on more important issues and let this great game alone. You didn#39;t attend a football school so you cannot fully understand what we long-time loyal fans think about this. Why make our sport like every other sport? Please leave it alone. /span/p

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/28646?ns=guardianpageName=Environment%3A+Rich+countries+launch+great+land+grab+to+safeguard+food+supplych=Environmentc3=The+Guardianc4=Food+%28Environment%29%2CBiofuels+%28Environment%29%2CConservation+%28Environment%29%2CEndangered+habitats+%28Environment%29%2CEnvironment%2CWorld+news%2CFood+and+drink+industry+%28Business%29%2CBusiness%2CAgriculture+%28Science%29%2CKorea+%28News%29%2CSciencec5=Environment+Conservation%2CBusiness+Markets%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CClimate+Change%2CEnergy%2CEthical+Living%2CFood+and+Drinkc6=Julian+Borgerc7=2008_11_22c8=1122193c9=articlec10=GUc11=Environmentc12=Foodc13=c14=h2=GU%2FEnvironment%2FFood" width="1" height="1" //divpRich governments and corporations are triggering alarm for the poor as they buy up the rights to millions of hectares of agricultural land in developing countries in an effort to secure their own long-term food supplies./ppThe head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, Jacques Diouf, has warned that the controversial rise in land deals could create a form of "neo-colonialism", with poor states producing food for the rich at the expense of their own hungry people./ppRising food prices have already set off a second "scramble for Africa". This week, the South Korean firm Daewoo Logistics announced plans to buy a 99-year lease on a million hectares in Madagascar. Its aim is to grow 5m tonnes of corn a year by 2023, and produce palm oil from a further lease of 120,000 hectares (296,000 acres), relying on a largely South African workforce. Production would be mainly earmarked for South Korea, which wants to lessen dependence on imports./pp"These deals can be purely commercial ventures on one level, but sitting behind it is often a food security imperative backed by a government," said Carl Atkin, a consultant at Bidwells Agribusiness, a Cambridge firm helping to arrange some of the big international land deals./ppMadagascar's government said that an environmental impact assessment would have to be carried out before the Daewoo deal could be approved, but it welcomed the investment. The massive lease is the largest so far in an accelerating number of land deals that have been arranged since the surge in food prices late last year. /pp"In the context of arable land sales, this is unprecedented," Atkin said. "We're used to seeing 100,000-hectare sales. This is more than 10 times as much."/ppAt a food security summit in Rome, in June, there was agreement to channel more investment and development aid to African farmers to help them respond to higher prices by producing more. But governments and corporations in some cash-rich but land-poor states, mostly in the Middle East, have opted not to wait for world markets to respond and are trying to guarantee their own long-term