by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Translation by Autumnson Blog
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That's probably why investors around the globe are flocking to farmland as the new growth industry. "Investors are pouring into farmland in the U.S. and parts of Europe, Latin America and Africa as global food prices soar," reports Bloomberg magazine (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-10/being-like-soros-in-buying-farm-land-lets-investors-reap-16-annual-gains.html..). "A fund controlled by George Soros, the billionaire hedge-fund manager, owns 23.4 percent of South American farmland venture Adecoagro SA."
Jim Rogers is also quoted in the same story, saying, "I have frequently told people that one of the best investments in the world will be farmland."
That's because demand for food is accelerating even as radical climate changes, a loss of fossil water supplies, and the failure of genetically engineered crops is actually reducing food yields around the globe. Ceres Partners, which invests in farmland, has produced astonishing 16 percent annual returns since its launch in 2008. And this is during a depressed economy when most other industries are showing losses.
Why growing and storing your own food can be a goldmine
All this means we can count on three things happening in the years ahead:
Prediction #1) Food supplies will become more scarce.
Prediction #2) Food prices will double over the next 2-3 years, and then probably double again in another 2-3 years.
Prediction #3) When food prices are 400% of today's levels, backyard farming or gardening pays off big in terms of real dollar savings.
In other words, as food prices skyrocket, it becomes increasingly more financially viable to grow your own food (or store it now while prices are low). I'm listing some resources below where you can learn more about growing your own food or storing high-density superfoods right now, but in the mean time, I'd like you to start considering the idea of starting your own garden in the spring.
You can't grow gold. You can't print your own currency (unless you're the Fed). But you CAN grow something more valuable than gold and money: Food!
Lessons from post World War II Taiwan and why food is more valuable than gold
I lived in Taiwan for two years, and I've had the opportunity to talk with people there who lived through the post World War II recovery. During the war, of course, Taiwan was occupied by the imperialist Japanese empire, and Taiwan existed in a state of military occupation (with perpetual martial law).
After the war ended and the Japanese left, Taiwan bootstrapped its own government into power under Chiang Kai-shek. The old Taiwan currency was immediately printed in large quantities by the Taiwan government leading to a runaway inflation scenario for what is now called the "old Taiwan dollar." Very quickly, however, the government launched a new currency called the New Taiwan dollar (NT$). By 1949, the old Taiwan dollar was being exchanged for the New Taiwan dollar (NT$) at a ratio of 40,000 to 1. (Yep. You had $40,000 and now it's worth a buck...).
During those years after WWII, if you wanted to rent an apartment, buy a house or find a place to live, cash was worthless and even GOLD wasn't considered very useful. The only thing that represented real wealth was FOOD. If you had food, you could trade it for anything: an automobile, a home, tools, clothing or even land. If you didn't have food, you were bankrupt; regardless of how much cash or gold you had.
A chicken that could lay eggs was worth more than an ounce of gold!
You can't eat gold, folks. And you can't eat silver. Everybody has to eat to stay alive, and that means everybody needs a constant stream of food just to keep breathing. That's why investing in food makes so much sense.
And by "investing in food," I mean any or all of the following:
• Investing in storable food that you can save on the shelf and keep for future use or barter.
• Investing in your own gardening skills so that you have the know-how to produce food when needed.
• Investing in non-hybrid garden seeds so that you have the genetic blueprints to grow food that can propagate itself generation after generation.
• Investing in farmland -- especially farmland with water -- that offers the fertility and climate to produce food.
• Investing in educational courses that teach you how to create food through a variety of methods: Wildcrafting, gardening, sprouting and so on.
Free resources
We have many FREE resources available on NaturalNews.com and NaturalNews.TV that help teach you how to grow your own food. Check out the following for starters:
(NaturalNews)食品价格在全球飞升，而且眼前也没有结束的迹象。联合国说目前食品的通胀一年是30%，以及美元的快速贬值造成食品价 格变得更高(相对于疲软货币)。由于美联储的失控印钞，美元的价值不断下降，从其他国家进口食品的价格在短短两年内看来要翻一倍 - 之后可能每两年都会翻一倍。 这就是为什么世界各地的投资者，都涌向农田并称之为新的增长行业。 “当全球粮食价格飙升，在美国、欧洲、拉丁美洲和非洲的投资者都涌向农田，”彭博杂誌报导“一个由亿万富翁索罗斯控制的对冲基金，拥有南美农田创业 Adecoagro SA 的23.4%。”
吉姆罗杰斯亦在引述同一个故事，说：“我已经常告诉人们，世界上其中一种最好的投资将是农田。”
那是因为对粮食的需求正在加迅速增加，随着气候急剧变化，供水的枯竭，及转基因作物的失败，造成全球各地的粮食产量不断减少。投资于农田的 Ceres Partners，在2008年推出以来巳每年产生惊人16%的收益;而且这是在经济不景气时侯，其它大部分行业都出现了亏损。
为什么种植和储存你自己的食物可以是一个金矿
所有这一切都意味着我们在未来可以信任三件事情：
预测#1)粮食供应将变得更加紧张。
预测 2)食品价格将在未来 2-3年增加一倍，然后可能在另一个 2-3年再翻一番。
预测 3)当粮食价格是今天的400%，在后花园种植农产品可以带来可观回报。
您不能种植黄金。您不可以自己印刷货币(除非你是美联储)。但是你可以种植比黄金和货币更宝贵的东西：食物!
二战后台湾的教训及为什么食物比黄金更宝贵
我曾在台湾住了两年，有机会和那里的人谈论第二次世界大战后的恢复情况。当然，在战争期间，台湾被日本帝国主义占领，处于军事占领状态。
战争结束后日本把台湾留给了蒋介石政府。由于台湾政府大量印刷货币导致通货膨胀，也就是现在所谓的“旧台币：“然而很快，政府又推出了一个新的货币，称为新台币。到1949年，旧台币兑换新台币比率为40000：1。
在二战之后这些年来，如果你想租房子，买房子或找到住的地方，现金是毫无价值的，甚至黄金也不是非常有用。代表真正唯一的财富是食物。如果你有食物，你什么都可以交易：汽车，房子，工具，服装，甚至土地。如果你没有食物，你就会破产;不管你有多少现金或黄金。
一个可以下蛋的鸡，价值超过一盎司黄金!
你不能吃黄金，乡亲们，你不能吃白银。每个人只有吃才能活下去，这意味着每个人都需要源源不断的食物，就象保持呼吸那样。这就是为什么投资食品的意义。
请记住，朋友们：你不能吃黄金。因此，确保粮食储备和生产成为您整体策略的一部分。是的，黄金和白银是非常有用，我也推荐他们... ...但是不要忘了养活自己。如果你没食物，就算住在金屋银屋也会饿死!
相关链接：
索罗斯投资农田获利16%！
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-10/being-like-soros-in-buying-farm-land-lets-investors-reap-16-annual-gains.html
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