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Goodvalley acquires production facility in Poland
- Global Newswire
- 04 June 2020
In connection with the acquisition, the Danish company expands the Group’s arable land bank in Poland through a 20-year lease agreement for 530 hectares of land nearby.
Vermont allocates $125 million to two agriculture funds
- PI Online
- 02 October 2019
The Vermont Pension Investment Committee has invested $100 million in the Nuveen Global Farmland Fund, which aims to make farmland acquisitions averaging $20m across the US, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Poland, Romania and Chile.
Cargill enters Polish protein market with poultry acquisition
- Food Navigator
- 07 January 2019
US-headquartered Cargill has completed the acquisition of Polish food and fresh chicken firm Konspol, adding a feed mill, broiler farms, and processing plants to its Global Poultry network.
The great Polish land grab
- ARC 2020
- 08 June 2018
Land prices have increased dramatically and despite a moratorium on foreign land purchasing, foreign entities have found a way to buy land. Polish farmers are despairing and protesting en masse.
Eastern Europe turns back on single market
- Politico
- 16 May 2017
EU’s newest members say big Western European landowners and multinational supermarkets are wiping out their farmers and shopkeepers.
Wanted ! Terres agricoles
- ARTE
- 20 May 2016
Ce mois de mai a vu expirer la dernière règlementation transitoire qui devait protéger les "nouveaux venus" d’Europe de l’Est, contre les investisseurs étrangers à l’affût des terres agricoles.
La Pologne barre la route aux agriculteurs étrangers
- Le Monde
- 27 April 2016
C’était une promesse de campagne importante des ultraconservateurs du parti Droit et justice, arrivé au pouvoir il y a six mois en Pologne : protéger les terres agricoles polonaises contre l’achat par des étrangers ou des institutions financières à des fins de spéculation.
Poland raises fences to block farmland sales
- Politico
- 25 April 2016
New land law makes it almost impossible for foreigners to buy Polish farms. But it’s difficult for Poles, too.
Polish farmland bill may breach the EU law
- EU Observer
- 14 April 2016
The Polish government, which is already at loggerheads with EU institutions over its constitutional reforms, could also be in trouble over a farmland bill which was passed in parliament today.
Poland: State ag land sales to be suspended
- USDA FAS
- 22 January 2016
Polish Ministry of Agriculture proposes new legislation suspending for 5 years sales of the state owned agricultural land. The proposed legislation aims to strengthen the protection of agricultural land in Poland from speculative purchases by domestic and foreign buyers
Kinnevik sells Rolnyvik for a cash consideration of SEK 400m
- Kinnevik
- 12 November 2015
Investment AB Kinnevik today announced that it has sold its Polish agricultural business Rolnyvik, which holds 6,700 hectares of land in Poland, for a total consideration of approximately SEK 400m in cash.
Polish farmers arrested defending farmland
- ICPPC
- 14 October 2015
Police arrest 11 farmers from Pyrzyce where 60% of farmland has already been sold off to foreign buyers. The farmers are accused of blocking tenders connected with the foreign sale of farming estates.

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