Netherlands

"What they are saying is that the local people are now suffering very badly as a direct result of these foreign companies taking over."

Call for papers for an international conference to be held at Groningen University, Netherlands, 28-29 October 2010.

Foreigners have an interest (partial or total ownership) in 1.6 percent of all privately held US agricultural land, a 1.4 million acre increase from 2007.