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From KQED.

The From KQD in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.

Every historical era is marked by the fight for a commodity. Spices, gold, oil.

As climate change deepens in the coming decades, security experts believe the commodities fueling geopolitical conflict will be food and water. A new documentary, The Grab,

centers the global battle to control these two resources. As Center for Investigative Reporting

journalist Nate Halverson

tries to piece together the state-sponsored efforts

to snatch up arable land and the water irrigated.

That's all coming up next, right after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.

Most of us here in the Bay Area are familiar with the brutalities and dispossession of the colonial era, which has never really ended in some key ways.

But what you might be less familiar with is that many governments across the world are taking

steps to secure their food supplies by snatching up land and agricultural output, both across

the global south and even here in the U.S.

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