Urban poor queue up to purchase rice being distributed by the government at subsidised prices in Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 2011.

Ukraine's First Deputy Head of Presidential Administration, Iryna Akimov

Grain and oilseed agriculture has transformed Uruguay’s farmland

Nationals' leader, Warren Truss

Sudanese celebrate following the announcement of the results in the Southern Sudan referendum, which saw South Sudan vote for independence from the north

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Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi (centre right), CEO of Karuturi Global, standing in front of the new tractors his company has brought to Gambela, Ethiopia for their large-scale agriculture project.

Palm oil giant Sime Darby is considering setting up 300,000 hectares of plantation in Cameroon

Destruction of homes in the community of Quinich. Photo by campesino, land rights groups in Polochic Valley.

Poor campesinos, from nearby communities, were paid by the "Chabil Utzaj" company to burn homes of poor campesinos, as part of the illegal evictions. Photo by campesino, land rights groups in Polochic Valley.

Antonio Beb Ac, killed in the community of Miralvalle. Photo by campesino, land rights groups in Polochic Valley.

Austrlia's lower house passed a Coalition motion calling for the review and extra data collection, to fill a perceived information vacuum on foreign ownership of farm land.

South Korean farmer at a protest in Seoul against the free trade negotiations with the US, December 2010 (Photo: Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images AsiaPac)

Rob Boyer (right) of Canadian Economic Development Assistance for Southern Sudan (CEDASS), which operates a large-scale mechanised farm in Southern Sudan that supplies grains to the World Food Programme. It was granted 12,200 hectares by the Government of South Sudan and the report by Norwegian People's Aid notes that more than 100 people have possibly already been displaced from family farms on these lands to make way for the project.

Farmer Esau Edonu with his cattle in Katine, a village in north-east Uganda (Photo: Dan Chung/The Guardian)

Saudi Star Agricultural Development Plc, a food company owned by billionaire Sheikh Mohammed al- Amoudi (above), says it has a 10,000 ha lease in Gambela, ethiopia and that it has obtained a lease for another 130,000 ha in the region, and plans to obtain a further 160,000 ha.

Vincent Bolloré of France owns a controlling interest in SOCFIN, which is regsitered in Luxembourg.

SOCFIN trucks in Cambodia, where the Bolloré Group's subsidiary is also active.

Chairman of Hassad Food, Nasser Mohamed al Hajri.