Ukraine

UAE to invest in Kazakh agriculture
- Financial Times
- 16 July 2008
The United Arab Emirates is seeking to invest in agricultural projects in Kazakhstan as part of its efforts to secure food supplies.
Gulf states seeking food security
- Dawn
- 23 June 2008
The Dubai-based think-tank Gulf Research Centre, in its food inflation report released last month, noted that agriculture production in the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council’s (GCC) countries is on the decline, and its exposure to unstable global food supplies would increase in the future. It called on the GCC to develop links with countries rich in arable land.
UAE ‘should invest in foreign farms’
- The National
- 21 June 2008
The UAE and its food-importing neighbours are “particularly vulnerable” to spiralling costs and should make significant investments in “contract farming” in Africa and Asia, says the UN’s Gulf food chief, Dr Kayan Jaff.
Business eyes Ukraine’s fertile land
- Financial Times
- 19 June 2008
“Look at the colour, what a beautiful crop,” says Richard Spinks, pointing to wheat and rapeseed fields that his company sowed this season in western Ukraine. “If all of Ukraine’s farms could produce the yields we are getting, this country could play a big role in feeding the world and establish itself as a geopolitical power,” says the British chief executive of London-listed Landkom.
Middle East economy: Food outsourcing
- Economist Intelligence Unit
- 18 June 2008
The Saudi government announced that it would co-ordinate with local private-sector companies and invest in strategic agricultural interests in key producer countries such as Brazil, Ukraine, Thailand and India, guaranteeing for itself supplies of cereals, meat and vegetables. It is already in advanced negotiations with Thai investors and a deal on rice farms in Thailand is likely before the end of the year.
Saudis plan to grow crops overseas
- Financial Times
- 13 June 2008
Saudi Arabia has unveiled plans to develop large-scale overseas agricultural projects to secure food supplies, revealing that Riyadh is in discussions with Ukraine, Pakistan, Sudan, Turkey and Egypt.
Ukraine capitalizing on food crisis
- Kyiv Post
- 12 June 2008
The expectation in Ukraine is that billions of dollars of fresh investment and agriculture reforms, namely sanctioning of agriculture land sales, could double or triple domestic grain production to 100-150 million tons levels in the long term.
Agricultural investment
- Real Investments Television
- 06 June 2008
Agacpita President Steven Johnston explains the philosophy of investing in farmland
Richard Spinks of Landkom snaps up Ukraine plots to cash in on high crop prices
- Wall Street Journal
- 18 May 2008
A British entrepreneur is leasing land from smallholders in an attempt to revive the breadbasket of the former Soviet Union
In Ukraine, mavericks gamble on scarce land
- Wall Sreet Journal
- 12 May 2008
Landkom has leased 165,000 acres from thousands of landowners in Ukraine and will reap its first big harvest this year.
Food Fight: Wealthy nations buying up land for food
- Marketplace / American Public Media
- 09 May 2008
This week, Saudi Arabia announced plans to invest in overseas fisheries, livestock and food production, and is reportedly trying to partner with Thai rice farms to lock in future supplies. Libya is in talks with Ukraine about growing wheat there, and as China tries to feed its expanding middle class, it’s looking to buy up farmland in Africa and South America.
Hedge funds muck in down on the farm
- Financial Times
- 25 April 2008
Hedge funds and investment banks are swapping their Gucci for gumboots as they bet on rising food prices by buying farms.