Kazakhstan

  • 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.

  • Chinese firms eye Aussie farmland
    • The Australian
    • 12 May 2008

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

  • 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.

  • 3,000 Chinese farmers to farm abroad
    • China Daily
    • 18 December 2003

    Hundreds of farmers in Northwest China are expected to toil the soil in the neighboring Republic of Kazakhstan next spring. "We have signed a deal with Kazakhstan to rent 7,000 hectares of land in Alakol county for use for 10 years," a local agricultural official said.

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