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Bangladeshi woman remove rain covers from rice after the harvest at a farm on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, May 20, 2010. The covers keep the rice dry during the rainy season. (Photo: AP/Pavel Rahman)
Cameroonian President Paul Biya with the German Chancellor's G8 Representative for Africa, Günter Nooke. "Local land law and customary law must be converted into a modern – in other words, western – system of law," says Nooke. (Photo: Franziska Tröger/BMZ)
Riyadh Gov. Prince Salman, right, receives Sri Lankan Minister of Industry and Commerce Rishad Bathiudeen, left, in Riyadh on Tuesday. (SPA)
Riyadh Gov. Prince Salman, right, receives Sri Lankan Minister of Industry and Commerce Rishad Bathiudeen, left, in Riyadh on Tuesday. (Photo: SPA)
Peaceful action against the mega food and energy project by the Papuan People's Solidarity Reject MIFEE (SORPATOM), in front of Parliament of Papua, on 26 November 2010.
Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France, and his personal friend Vincent Bolloré, owner of the Bolloré Group. SOCFIN is a subsidiary of the Bolloré Group.
Cambodia's sugar boom is responsible for growing conflict between poor farmers and big business. Photo: GETTY
Chinese businesspeople met with Bulgarian Agriculture Minister Miroslav Naydenov to consider possible investments. Photo by Agriculture Ministry/BGNES
Qatari investors recently acquired a tract of agricultural land and food-processing facilities in New South Wales
Owner of Saudi Star Agricultural Development Plc, the Ethiopian-born Saudi billionaire Sheikh Mohammed al- Amoudi, was in Abobo Woreda, Gambella on February 11/2011. This is where his company leased 10,000 ha of land for rice production.
Fonterra chairman Sir Henry van der Heyden says New Zealand's farmland is a strategic asset that should be protected from foreign ownership. For Brazil, however, where Fonterra is buying farms, he says land is not a "strategic resource"
