As we saw in the previous article, Africa has considerable agricultural potential in terms of lands but doesn’t take full advantage of it because of its lack of means. On other continents, the situation is in the opposite direction as the developed regions of the world started to run out of agricultural resources for various reasons over the last decades. Those contrasted situations created some opportunities for both sides that led to many large-scale land investments. In this article we are going to explain the reasons behind such investments and we will focus on the investor’s and target’s profiles. The world has grown fast, too fast for the agricultural sector which was neglected by the developed regions in the world in favor of industry and services: the part of agriculture in GDP represented less than 10% in 1970 and 2% in 2011. (more…)