UkrLandFarming has been facing hard times due to complicated situation around its owner Oleh Bakhmatyuk, a Ukrainian businessman who is active in several businesses including agriculture, mass media, and finance.
- largescaleagriculture.com
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05 Mar 2020
A Mongabay investigation traces the rise and fall of a billion-dollar agribusiness cartel in Eastern Europe, finding it relied on money laundering, tax avoidance and state capture.
Une bousculade entre députés a éclaté jeudi au Parlement ukrainien, qui a commencé à examiner en dernière lecture un projet de loi controversé autorisant la vente des fertiles terres agricoles.
- Euronews
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06 February 2020
Support for land reform under the agreement will be carried out under the indirect management of the World Bank.
The document says that only individuals who are citizens of Ukraine, legal entities established by citizens of Ukraine, the state, and local communities can be players on the farmland market.
The government initially planned to allow foreigners to buy farmland from 2024, but Zelensky, under pressure from opponents, has promised a referendum on this.
Plusieurs milliers de personnes, des fermiers mais aussi des militants nationalistes, se sont rassemblées à Kiev pour dénoncer un projet de loi visant à autoriser la vente des terres agricoles fertiles du pays.
So far dozens have been arrested with one reported fatality among the protestors.
- Oakland Institute
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18 December 2019
Ukrainians are concerned that cash-flush foreigners could snap up one of Ukraine’s agricultural lands, leaving many of the country’s 41 million people forced to work for others on the soil they once owned.
- Bloomberg
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17 December 2019
Open letter to the heads of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- farmlandgrab.org
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06 December 2019
Los extranjeros podrán canjear tierras prioritarias, que sus empresas ya alquilan actualmente. Alrededor de tres millones de hectáreas de 42 millones están afectadas por esto
- News Front
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25 November 2019
"The World Bank Group congratulates the Ukrainian Leadership on the successful first reading of the law to lift the moratorium on agricultural land sales," the Bank said in a statement on Facebook