The Venerable Luon Sovath speaks during a meeting at the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights yesterday in Phnom Penh. Photo by: Hong Menea

President Mwai Kibaki shake hands with the Chief Executive Officer of Dominion Farm, Calvin Burgess, who called on him at State House, Nairobi, December 09, 2004.

EU funds are involved in land grabs in Africa

Lu Hao, "China State Farms" engineer, Tanzania

Dominion Farms, Kenya

Photo: 'The Big Banana'' rel="fancybox-button" href="/uploads/images/photos/1468/original_big_banana_480_12aug2011.jpg">

'The Big Banana' documentary shows the effects of an export banana plantation on the Mungo region of Cameroon, August 2011
Photo: 'The Big Banana'

Great Southern organic farmer Steve Marsh (Photo: Lee Griffith)

Photo: Mikhail Mordasov/AFP/Newcom

Trade Minister will be under pressure in Beijing to live up to the terms of the FTA. Tim Groser is likely to open the door to co-investment by China rather than outright acquisitions. Photo / Greg Bowker

Perry Vieth, Co-Founder of Ceres Partners, stands in front of corn crops in Granger, Indian on June 22, 2011. (Photo: Roy Ritchie/Bloomberg)

Faremrs in Brazil (Photo: Jack Kaufman)

Officer trying to put out fire at torched sugarcane plantation in Tanzania, January 2011 (Photo: Raymond John)

"Farmland is going to be one of the great investments of the next 10 to 20 years," says Rogers

Farmers in Somalia