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Ukraine extends ban on farmland sales by three years to 2016
- Bloomberg
- 21 November 2012
Ukraine’s parliament extended a ban on sales of farmland by three years to January 2016, giving time to prepare related legislation.
Ukrainian parliament is not going to permit to sell farmlands
- Interfax
- 16 October 2012
Ukraine will have no farmland market in the near future, Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn has said.
Ukraine, Japan collaborate on farmland investments, corn growing, exports
- eFeedLink
- 12 October 2012
Japan wants to grow corn on Ukraine's black earth and import it while Ukraine suggests that Japan, as a "hi-tech country", invest in Ukrainian farmland.
Another step to …nowhere
- The Day
- 09 October 2012
In Ukraine, MPs did not extend land sale moratorium, but experts say it is legally impossible to launch market on January 1, 2013
Ukraine may dole out huge tracts of unused farmland
- Kyiv Post
- 28 September 2012
Public-private partnership program envisions letting investors farm up to 4 million hectares of currently unused government land for up to 50 years in large-scale 400,000-hectare projects.
Saudi to invest over US$11bn in farmland projects
- Arabian Business
- 20 September 2012
Saudi Arabia has invested around 40 billion riyals in agricultural and livestock projects in the Ukraine, Brazil, Argentina, Canada and Sudan, says chairman of the agricultural investment committee at the Saudi Council of Chambers.
Land Inc
- Terra Project
- 27 August 2012
In 2012, Terra Project started a long term documentation investigating the drivers, the trends, the mechanisms and the impacts of land acquisitions across the world.
Not enough farmland to feed the world
- ABC
- 02 August 2012
HighQuest Partners in the US say that between 65-80 million hectares of additional land is going to have to be brought into production, globally, within the next 10 years and that this means more foreign farmland investment.
EBRD could become co-investor of ED&F Man in Ukraine
- Interfax
- 25 June 2012
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is considering making an equity investment of up to $15.9 million to acquire a minority stake in ED&F Man Ukraine Investments BV
Ukraine’s foreign investors and the lifting of farmland moratorium
- Frishberg.com
- 07 May 2012
Ukraine has long been called “the bread-basket of Europe,” and for one excellent reason: its fertile, black soil. The estimated value of this treasure is anywhere between 40 and 80 billion dollars. The only problem with investing in such an obviously profitable business was an artificial bureaucratic/legislative barrier commonly known as the “moratorium on alienation of farm land” (the “Moratorium”).
Charles Vilgrain dévoile la stratégie d'AgroGeneration
- YouTube
- 12 April 2012
Vilgrain explique le projet du groupe dans la production de céréales et oléagineux en Ukraine, tout récemment en Argentine et "pourquoi pas un jour en Afrique".
AgroGeneration : signe un accord avec un groupe argentin
- Boursier.com
- 05 Mar 2012
AgroGeneration annonce la signature d'un partenariat stratégique avec le groupe argentin La Suerte Agro. La société commune louera et exploitera 14.000 hectares en Argentine dès la prochaine campagne agricole, avec pour objectif 50 000 hectares d'ici à 5 ans.