At least 21 investors from famous US firms who were in Tanzania to scout for business opportunities for 10 days have acquired, among other things, land for production of food crops in East Africa’s second largest economy.
- The Guardian
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12 July 2011
Korea wants to secure a total of 380,000 hectares of overseas farmland by 2018, the agriculture ministry said in an e-mailed statement today. Priority countries include the Philippines, Cambodia, Ukraine, Indonesia and Russia.
The Parliament of Ukraine on Thursday, July 7, adopted a law "On State Land Cadastre".
- Land Union of Ukraine
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08 July 2011
EBRD funds Ukrfarm, a subsidiary of the Renaissance Group, to bring an additional 50,000 hectares of land in the Ukraine into crop production.
- The Financial
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02 July 2011
The investment is expected to boost Cyprus-based UkrFarm’s arable land holdings in the Ukraine to 300,000 hectares by 2013 from 250,000 hectares.
Le producteur français de matières premières agricoles AgroGeneration a lancé une augmentation de capital de 10 millions d'euros afin de financer l'acquisition de silos en Ukraine et le développement du groupe en Argentine.
Thomas Mirow, president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, advises the Ukraine, on behalf of foreign investors, to drop its moratorium on the sale of farmland to foreigners.
« Les petits paysans, qui ne possèdent que quelques hectares, n'auront pas les moyens de résister à la pression financière des grands groupes », martèle Ivan Kyrylenko, « c'est pourquoi l'opposition ukrainienne demande la prolongation du moratoire. »
Ukraine should not sell farmland to foreigners so local producers can improve agricultural output says Agriculture Minister Mykola Prysyazhnyuk.
Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Agriculture calls Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine “probable countries of investment” in farmland and confirms Kingdom's continued interest in farmland in south Sudan.
Investors are thinking big when it comes to farmland purchases, reports Andrew Shirley in Knight Frank's Wealth Report 2011
- Knight Frank
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02 June 2011
Ukraine has ditched proposals to allow foreigners to buy up its farmland in a privatisation process, to prevent wealthy multinationals snapping up its farmland on the cheap.
