Farmland, the ultimate flight to quality?

Real assets such as farmland are now regarded as a store of value amid doubts over the quality of other financial assets. China is buying up farmland internationally and paying prices that others can't afford. While ensuring its own food stability for the future, there may be political risk generated by this gambit, if those countries are faced with paying inflated market prices, then take umbrage about Chinese farmers growing food on their patch and sending it back to the motherl…