“China, home to 20 percent of the world’s population but only 8 percent of the world’s arable land, has gone abroad in search of farmland.  In Africa alone, Chinese ‘friendship farms’ grow cabbages in the Democratic Republic of Congo, raise fish in Angola, or harvest sesame seeds, cashews and peanuts in Mozambique.  These purchases are often described as a kind of neocolonialism unique to China.  So it might surprise you that the U.S. and the U.K. are basically on par with China when it comes to buying and leasing land in other countries.  Most of the world’s countries had bought or sold land internationally as of 2012. But the trade is dominated by China, the U.K. and the U.S.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/05/21/rich-countries-are-buying-up-farmland-from-poorer-ones-around-the-world/

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