In Brazil, one government study estimated that foreigners owned land equivalent to about 20 percent of São Paulo State.
According to Oxfam, land equivalent to eight times the size of Britain was sold or leased worldwide in the last 10 years.
Since the 1930s, the state has lost nearly 2,000 square miles of land, equivalent to roughly one football field every 45 minutes.
The Australian company owned land equivalent to 1.3% of the country and the potential sale fuelled concerns about the scale of China's investments in Australia.
More than 2m hectares of land – equivalent to nearly three-quarters of Cambodia's arable land – have been granted to investors since 2008, in turn affecting an estimated 700,000 people across the country, according to Global Witness.
The minister said last week that "another 2 to 3% of [Britain's] land" – equivalent to more than 1,500 square miles, more than the area of Essex – should be built on to relieve the country's housing shortage.
Proposals to build houses, roads, industrial parks, mines and airport expansions, which are either out for consultation, have been submitted for planning permission or have already been approved, would cover protected land equivalent to a new town larger than Slough, the CPRE claims.
He said he had exchanged maps with Mr Olmert, though without reaching a precise agreement on a new border.Mr Olmert has disclosed that he accepted the principle of one-to-one swaps, leaving the Palestinians with land equivalent in area to what they had before 1967.
Land equivalent ratio (LER) was used to evaluate productivity of the intercrop.
Weeds and insects were surveyed and both crop yields and land equivalent ratio (LER) were calculated.
