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Tajik president Emomali Rakhmon (R) pictured here on a visit to Beijing.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Abdullah (second left) launching the Tanjung Manis Halal Hub.

Jiang Zhaobai, Chairman of Penxin Group, says his company owns 650 hectares of farmland near Shanghai, used for sheep, wheat and soybeans, and has another 930ha in Shandong Province for a sheep farm. In 2005, the company invested more than $US20m in a Bolivian soybean and corn farm. It has agricultural interests in Cambodia and Argentina, and is negotiating to buy 200,000 hectares of land in Brazil to grow soybeans and cotton.

Malaysia is looking into forming strategic alliances with other countries for food production, says Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

A security guard stands next to the headquarters of palm oil giant Sime Darby in Kuala Lumpur. The company, which is the world's largest listed palm oil producer, says it will make its first foray into Africa, with plans to establish plantations in Liberia in April. (Photo: AFP/File/AFP)

In Janauary 2011, Farouk Soussa, Citi Group's chief economist for the Middle East, told Gulf News, "Export restrictions on food grains will provide further impetus to Gulf countries' quest for food security, especially in further exploring opportunities to secure agricultural farm-lands in Asian and African countries."

The Omo River, Ethiopia, a country ripe for corporate land grabs. (Photo: Remi Benali)

Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency Gov. Muhammad Al-Jasser speaks at the 5th Global Competitiveness Forum in Riyadh on Monday. (Photo: Fahad Al-Mofareg/Arab News)

New Zealand's Minister of Finance, Bill English

WIN-WIN: Richard Haire, Chief Executive of Queensland Cotton, a subsidairy of Olam, sees a good side to overseas investment in Australia's agribusiness. (Photo: Philip Norrish/The Courier-Mail)

Former UK PM Tony Blair wil moderate a panel on Janaury 27, 2011 at the Davos World Economic Forum, entitled Nurturing Africa's Natural Resources. The panel, which will look at land grabs, will feature Ethiopian PM Meles Zenawi.