Russia

Carto, Le Monde en Cartes, fait peau neuve
- Podcastjournal.net
- 30 January 2011
On s’arrêtera notamment sur l’impressionnant chapitre consacré au phénomène du "Land Grabbing" ou "accaparement des terres agricoles"
[Russia] Acquisition of land for agricultural purposes – Legal aspects
- Moscow Times
- 23 November 2010
One of the conditions for major agricultural holdings with significant assets in Russia entering the securities market through the performance of an IPO and SPO is the confirmation of their rights to use the land for agricultural production.
Israel mulls leasing land in Russia
- Xinhua
- 24 September 2010
Israel has asked Russia's republic of Tatarstan to lease 1.5 million hectares of its land, said a visiting Israeli businessman on Friday.
Time is ripe to develop agribusiness
- Moscow Times
- 13 September 2010
As foreign investors in Russia are all too aware, there is a perennial conflict within the country’s political elite on how to balance the need for foreign investment and outside technology with an impulse to maximize state control over sectors that carry outsized economic or social significance.
Black Earth yields fall as Russia wheat hopes fade
- Agrimoney
- 27 August 2010
Black Earth Farming a Swedish firm which controls more than 300,000 hectares of Russian farmland, has reported yields of some crops down by more than a half thanks to Russia's "scorching" heat
Investors fear re-run of great grain robbery
- Financial Times
- 06 August 2010
Analysts and farming executives say the crisis is likely to accelerate the consolidation of Russian agriculture already under way, allowing big conglomerates to swoop on struggling small farmers.
La nouvelle bataille du blé entre l'Amérique et la Russie
- Les Echos
- 14 June 2010
La flambée des prix agricoles de 2008 a déclenché en Russie une ruée sur les terres agricoles des investisseurs britanniques, chinois, suédois et coréens. Aujourd'hui, la Russie exporte 14 % du total mondial du marché de blé.
Agribusiness giants may become kings of farming
- Kyiv Post
- 10 June 2010
A new class of farmers is on the rise in Ukraine. Three articles about the situation with foreign investors taking control of the country's farmlands.
Russia fights for world dominance—in wheat
- Bloomberg
- 03 June 2010
By 2008 global grain prices were reaching record levels, and Swedish, British, Chinese, and Korean investors were piling into Russian farmland.
NE China province leases land, grows crops in Russia
- Xinhua
- 29 May 2010
Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province has leased 426,667 hectares of land in Russia to grow crops, the provincial agriculture commission said Friday.
Russia - Iranian farm investment
- meatinternational.com
- 14 May 2010
A group of Iranian businessmen is planning to invest up to $40 million in the construction of a livestock breeding complex and a feed plant in Russia's Chelyabinsk region by 2013
Hyundai Heavy reaps corns, soybeans at its Russian farmland
- Yonhap
- 15 April 2010
Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., the world's largest shipbuilder, said Thursday that it has harvested 4,500 tons of soybeans and 2,000 tons of corn at its Russian farm.