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“It’s a very complex problem because we don’t want to scare away investors,” Colombia's Agriculture Minister Francisco Estupiñan told a Bogota radio station last month. “It would not be a good idea for the government to suddenly arrive with backhoes and start knocking everything down and giving the land back to the peasants.” Photo: Juan Pablo Pino

Official figures show that 97% of Cambodia's €10m (£8.5m) sugar exports went to the EU last year, and Tate & Lyle bought 99% of them.

Louis Dreyfus Commitidites possède une plantation d’agrumes de 30.000 hectares au Brésil grâce à laquelle il produit un milliard de litres de jus d’orange chaque saison.

Peasants in Vichada department review their land titles. Large firms bought much land distributed to farmers. (AFP/Getty)