Ukraine

The World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development have reaffirmed their support for the Ukrainian government’s plans to lift a more than decade-long moratorium on the purchases of Ukrainian farmland

Matteo Patrone, EBRD Managing Director for Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, warns against mistakes in reform and believes that a pause should be taken

The government’s plans to open up the land market are stirring fears that Ukraine’s coveted black earth will be bought up by foreigners, including Russians. Report from Associated Press.

Some 81% of Ukrainians oppose the sale of agricultural land to foreigners and 74% say that any change in these rules should be decided through a national referendum, a new survey says

A proposed land market model envisages that only Ukrainians and Ukrainian companies will have the right to buy and sell land, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.

Leah Soroka, program manager for Eastern Europe and central Asia agri-finance with the World Bank's IFC, said the President's proposal to privatise farmland would be a game-changer.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says he wants parliament to adopt a law on the agricultural land market and lift the moratorium on the sale of land by December 1, 2019.

The World Bank and the Finance Ministry of Ukraine signed an agreement to raise a loan in the amount of USD 200 million for the programme Accelerating Private Investment in Agriculture.

Les dix premières agroholdings louent à elles seules trois millions d'ha de terre en Ukraine. Elles produisent entre 25 et 30% des céréales et en exportent entre 40 et 45%.

Local opponents to the EBRD and IFC financed expansion plans of Ukrainian poultry company MHP have suffered from numerous assaults and incidents of intimidation

Suite à la cession de 37 700 ha en décembre, la société annonce aujourd'hui la cession de 9 200 ha supplémentaires, toujours en Ukraine. Le Groupe exploitera désormais 70 000 ha dans le pays.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a law for the extension of a moratorium on the sale of agricultural land until January 1, 2020.