The group currently has 151,000 hectares under management, a figure which it claims makes it the sixth-largest listed farm operator in Europe.

Recent business delegations from Iran and Qatar expressed strong interest in buying farmland in Uruguay to develop their own production projects.

"Several very powerful groups in the Middle East are seriously considering the 3.2 million hectares that Serbia has to offer."

Agroinvest plans to invest 1 billion riyals overseas but is waiting for details on Kingdom's policy.

Saudi Arabia and Ireland will explore possibilities on how to clinch deals with countries that can offer food security for the Kingdom

Fears that faceless corporations and international investors would become the new barons of the Australian bush have proved to be unfounded

Qatar gives special attention to investments in Sudan in agricultural fields and livestock.

Wilmar is eyeing Indonesia's Papua Province for a massive cane growing project.

Olivier de Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, and Smita Narula, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, discuss land grabbing on Democracy Now!

A report on the CFS land discussions, Rome, October 8-16, 2010

Urges transparency and regulation to protect rights, prevent further food insecurity.

Mounting concern over security of food supplies is spurring a wave of private-sector investment in Africa.