• Russian farmland 'retains allure', despite Black Earth Farming exit
    • Agrimoney
    • 16 February 2017

    Russia's farmland market remains attractive to investors, both foreign and domestic, despite the apparent snub presented by Black Earth Farming's decision to quit, with prices soaring by up to 60% last year.

  • Black Earth Farming unveils $200m sell-out to Russian buyer
    • Agrimoney
    • 14 February 2017

    Black Earth Farming revealed it had agreed, in essence, a $200m takeover by a Russia's Kukura family in the most high profile of a series of retreats by foreign investors from the Black Sea agricultural market.

  • Black Earth Farming Ltd announces the divestment of Podgornoe and Ostrogozhsk assets
    • Global Newswire
    • 03 April 2014

    Black Earth Farming sells 28,000 ha of farmlands in Voronezh, Russia to company owned by Ukrainian oligarch Oleg Bakhmatyuk and US grain trader Cargill.

  • Struggling Black Earth flags potatoes, cost cuts
    • Agrimoney
    • 21 February 2014

    The Russian farm operator unveiled a loss of $18.1m for 2013, compared with earnings of $7.49m in 2012 – the only profitable year in the company's nine year history.

  • Black Earth founder invests in dairy cows in Chechnya
    • RBC Daily
    • 15 October 2013

    Mikhail Orlov, after having sold his Russian farming operations and shifted focus to Zambia, is back with a 4,800 cow dairy farm project in Chechnya.

  • Kinnevik to sell Polish farm to cash in on gains
    • Agrimoney
    • 30 April 2013

    Kinnevik, the investment group which is the biggest investor in Black Earth Farming, revealed that it is to sell its Polish farm to cash in on gains in land prices, and bankroll "other opportunities in emerging markets further east".

  • Swedish Black Earth?
    • FarmLandS
    • 14 Mar 2013

    "I’ve put together a table with what I think are the main Swedish land investments in Russia and Ukraine," writes Brian Kuns. "In doing this, I ran into some of the known difficulties associated with monitoring the phenomenon of large-scale land-acquisition."

  • First-ever profit sends Black Earth shares soaring
    • Agrimoney
    • 28 February 2013

    The Russian farm operator - which controls a landbank of more than 3,000 square kilometres - underlines importance of 3-yr supply deal with PepsiCo, to grow beet for sugar and potatoes for making crisps.

  • Investors wary of going back to the land
    • Offshore Corporate
    • 27 January 2013

    Agriculture has scarred some big hitters in the investment world. Many are now wary of a sector that is at the mercy of fickle weather, political risk and quixotic governments.

  • Black Earth reveals cash call to unlock Pepsi deal
    • Agrimoney
    • 22 October 2012

    Russian farm operator says it signed a 3-yr deal with PepsiCo to provide potatoes and sunflower seed for use in making Frito-Lay crisps, besides sugar beet for other products.

  • Pension funds: key players in the global farmland grab
    • GRAIN
    • 29 June 2011

    Pension funds may be one of the few classes of land grabbers that people can pull the plug on, by sheer virtue of the fact that it is their money.

  • Global land grabbing: Eroding food sovereignty
    • PAN AP
    • 14 January 2011

    Land deals, whether as direct purchases or long-term leases, are being brokered in poor countries by advanced capitalist countries and their TNCs

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