La alianza estratégica entre Argentina y Arabia Saudita posibilitará abastecer de alimentos a la población de la nación árabe

Wilmar CEO Kuok. Wilmar owns vast rubber, sugar and oil palm estates across Asia and Africa as well.

Noble's CEO Ricardo Leiman. Noble, part-owned by China's sovereign wealth fund, owns oil palm plantations in Africa and Asia.

Olam CEO Sunny Verghese. Olam bought a distressed Australian almond farm that made it one of the world's largest almond producers and provided it with extensive water rights.

Land grab - not a game

Walking through farmland near Manaus, Brazil. Photo: (Photo: Julio Pantoja)

David Murrin, CIO of Emergent Asset Management which claims to be the largest agricultural fund in Africa.

Los productores de arroz en el valle del río Senegal

Riots have erupted in Algeria over the price of food (Photo: AFP, 6 Jan 2011)

(Photo : Lamine Coulibaly/CNOP)

(Photo : Lamine Coulibaly/CNOP)

Chantal Jacovetti (Confédération Paysanne) à côté de Faliry Boly (Sexagon) au forum. (Photo : Lamine Coulibaly/CNOP)

In Beldenadji, Mali, a canal has been extended to irrigate land, part of an American aid initiative (Photo: Tyler Hicks/New York Times).

Bangladesh foreign minister Dipu Moni shakes hands with Cambodia's foreign minister Hor Namhong in Phnom Penh on Monday. Photo by: Pha Lina

"La lutte contre l’accaparement des terres en Afrique ne fait que commencer."

In a country like Ethiopia where farmers have very limited access to the legal and credit institutions, and where farmers are marginalized from formal land rights and existing land uses, official statements that claim ample, idle, or unoccupied land are totally immature.