Russia

Les compagnies étrangères cotées dans les bourses européennes achètent activement des terres agricoles en Russie

The fund’s strategy is to own and manage funds which operate in largely unsubsidised farming countries and are among the lowest cost producers of their chosen commodity or livestocks.

Beijing is adding agricultural investments to its “go outward” strategy, under which domestic businesses are encouraged to venture into foreign markets.

“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.

As food crisis worsens, some nations are desperate for arable land

Agacpita President Steven Johnston explains the philosophy of investing in farmland

A British entrepreneur is leasing land from smallholders in an attempt to revive the breadbasket of the former Soviet Union

Alpcot Agro is currently in control of 128,800 hectares of arable land in Russia and wants to control 200,000 hectares by the end of 2008.

Landkom has leased 165,000 acres from thousands of landowners in Ukraine and will reap its first big harvest this year.

China's fast-growing farm corporations may be the next wave of Chinese investors in Australia, joining their already influential mining comrades.

Chongqing Seed Corp has decided to cultivate rice on 300 hectares in Tanzania from 2009

The worldwide food shortage has spurred enthusiasm among Chinese enterprises to invest in overseas agriculture sectors. South America and Russia are likely to become the new destinations for agricultural investments from China.