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:"In the background, the World Bank and the EBRD, among others, are actively advising governments to modify land ownership policies and practices so that foreign investors have more incentives to put money into farmland abroad. According to World Bank officials, changing land ownership laws is an integral target of the Bank’s US$1.2bn package to deal with the food crisis in Africa."<ref name="Seized"/>
=== Africa ===
Of 2042 publicly reported deals as of November 2011, 948 of them covering 134 hectares were located in Africa, representing 46.4 percent of all such reported deals. Of these, deals in Africa covering 34 million hectares were "cross referenced" for validity, compared to 43 million hectares reported (29 million cross-referenced) in Asia and 19 million hectares reported (6 million cross referenced) in Latin America. What's more, Africa is being carved up into a much more global pie than other regions, as the majority of Asian land deals are made with investors in Asia, and the majority of Latin American land deals are made with Latin American and North American investors. Of the area involved in land deals that have been cross referenced in Africa: 38.7 percent went to Asian investors; 20.2% to African investors; 18.9% to European investors; 11.7% to Western Asian [Middle Eastern] investors; 10.4% to North American investors; and 0.2% to Latin American investors. "The high levels of interest in acquiring land in Africa appear to be driven by a perception that large tracts of land can be acquired from governments with little or no payment."<ref name="ILC2012">Ward Anseeuw, Liz Alden Wily, Lorenzo Cotula, and Michael Taylor, "[http://www.landcoalition.org/sites/default/files/publication/1205/ILC%20GSR%20report_ENG.pdf Land Rights and the Rush for Land]," [[International Land Coalition]], January 2012.</ref>
== Role of International Organizations ==
