Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has warned against the rise of 'new feudal lords' in Africa where foreign companies are acquiring vast tracts of farmland, notes a report on the News24 site.

'In Africa, foreign investors buy farmland, transforming themselves into new feudal lords against whom we must fight,' Gaddafi said at a UN summit on food security in Rome. Gaddafi added that Africa's most serious problem is the 'monopolisation of seeds by companies that I would describe as diabolical'. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, hosting the three-day summit, 'must dismantle this monopoly in all countries', he added.
Full report on the News24 site