• UAE plans to invest in farmland in Kazakhstan, says president
    • Food Business Review
    • 16 July 2008

    President of the United Arab Emirates, Khalifa bin Zayed, has said that in order to secure food supply for the country, the government wants to invest in farmland in Kazakhstan

  • China: 'Going Outward' for Food Security
    • Stratfor
    • 30 June 2008

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

  • 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.

  • 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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