How did this country turn from being one of the poorest post colonial states in the world to one of the largest land grabbers in recent years?

Hasat Hud, a state-supported Qatari company, wants to buy vast swaths of public land in Turkey to invest in agriculture and husbandry.

What happens when you are forced to leave the land that has fed your family for generations? What is the impact of wealthy foreigners having access to the best agricultural land in a very poor country? These questions addressed in new Guardian film.

Zuellig Group will set up a 30,000-hectare corn plantation in the Philippines to ensure that its own feed milling requirements are met.

The Brazilian government now prohibits non-Brazilians from buying controlling shares of companies that own vast tracts of territory in the country, Attorney General Luiz Inacio Adams said this week.

Investors are buying Canadian agricultural land, betting that rising food prices, a ballooning global population and growing worldwide scarcities in farmland will mean a payoff for them.

Seeds, land and fertilizer are among the top places food and agriculture executives and economists said they would put their money, betting on global population growth.

China’s largest agricultural company plans to acquire 200,000 hectares of land in Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Australia, the Philippines, Zimbabwe and Russia in 2011.

French farm investor AgroGeneration aims to double its business in Ukraine and make a foray in Argentina.

Responsible agricultural investment should recognise and respect land and related resource rights, says head of the research and information department at South Africa’s Industrial Development Corporation

With rising food and energy prices there is no reason to think that this rush to acquire agricultural land in the developing world will end anytime soon.

David Murrin, CIO at Emergent Asset Management, stresses the difficulties of jumping aboard the African growth story. "It is very hard to take advantage of the tremendous growth in African agriculture and that's why private equity investment is so important, it helps capture some of that growth," he says.