Brazil imposes limits on the acquisition of land while it pursues a project with Japan to implement agribusiness and contract farming over 10 million ha in Mozambique.

A study funded by OXFAM shows how the transnational cereal trader used 36 anonymous companies to acquire lands in Vichada, Colombia that had been allocated by the state to small peasant farmers.

To actualize the terms of an agreement signed in January 2010 between the Malian government and the Indian firm, Angelique International, Indian businessmen are set to begin wok on rice farms in parts of northern Mali

Documents suggest Cargill acquired thousands of acres in the Vichada department from small farmers through 19 different legal entities controlled by four Cargill subsidiaries.

Croatia has retained restrictions on the purchase of farmland, so that foreigners will not be able to buy agricultural land in Croatia for seven years after the country's entry into the EU, with a possibility of extending this time frame for another three years.

Investments by the World Bank's IFC in financial intermediaries are alleged to have financed 'land grabs' in South East Asia and violations of indigenous people's rights in Honduras.

Sometime within the last century, soil erosion began to exceed new soil formation. Now, nearly a third of the world’s cropland is losing topsoil faster than new soil is forming, reducing the land’s inherent fertility.

Steep growth in Chinese olive oil consumption, unlikely to be met soon by a budding domestic supply, is encouraging investors to get hold of olive farms and processing plants in producing countries.

Sugar cane and palm oil companies able to afford inflated rents are forcing Guatemala's smallholder farmers off their land.

At the heart of the growing inequalities in Europe are the issues of land concentration and land grabbing. It is a critical subject and is having severe impacts on the prospects and viability of our communities.

European banks, pension funds and private equity funds have given financial assistance worth more than €450 million to Malaysian palm oil giant Sime Darby, responsible for environmental degradation and violations of national regulations in Liberia.

Video presentation by EmVest CEO Susan Payne at the 2013 Land Investment Expo at the Sheraton West Des Moines Hotel.