Participants denounced land grabbing and agreed to co-ordinate their efforts globally to campaign to STOP the irresponsible greedy practice by the transnational conglomerates.

Prime Minister John Key does not believe the sale of "very large tracts of land" to foreign investors would be in the long-term interests of New Zealand.

Tunisia plans to lease over 9,641 hectares of farmland to foreign investors this year to help increase agricultural production and exports, a government official said on Friday.

The paper attempts to present an integrated look at international investments in agriculture from a systems perspective, focusing on Arab investments in Sudan.

A special international legal regime exists to protect cross-border investments, including ownership of land and property.

Report on the growing popularity of farmland investment in the developing world for European pension funds

Libya has mobilised investment funds and is seeking area for production and export of food.

If you are a small farmer in a developing country, and there is a big agricultural land investment deal going down in your neighbourhood, you could become part of it and make money in several ways, said a new UN-backed study.

We call on others in the US to demand an end to the global land grab and commit to participating in a global campaign against land grabs

TIAA-CREF owns agricultural land in the US, Australia, Brazil and central and Eastern Europe, most of which is leased out.

Pension funds are deepening their commitment to farmland, upping investments by billions of dollars and moving to active strategies, as a hedge against potential inflation and to diversifty from riskier investments.

Leading Gulf economist Dr Eckart Woertz says plans by GCC states to buy farmland in Asian and African countries were not materialising despite announcements to the contrary.