It is heartening that the international community is finally paying attention to small farmers – the people who produce the majority of the world’s food and safeguard our ecosystems, and yet are the majority of the world’s poor.

GRABBING THE WORLD'S 'UNUSED LAND'

In the past three years, foreign governments and investment companies have been buying or leasing vast tracts of farmland in Africa and elsewhere for producing biofuels or food for their own use.[1]