• Agribusiness giants may become kings of farming
    • Kyiv Post
    • 10 June 2010

    A new class of farmers is on the rise in Ukraine. Three articles about the situation with foreign investors taking control of the country's farmlands.

  • Russia fights for world dominance—in wheat
    • Bloomberg
    • 03 June 2010

    By 2008 global grain prices were reaching record levels, and Swedish, British, Chinese, and Korean investors were piling into Russian farmland.

  • NE China province leases land, grows crops in Russia
    • Xinhua
    • 29 May 2010

    Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province has leased 426,667 hectares of land in Russia to grow crops, the provincial agriculture commission said Friday.

  • Russia - Iranian farm investment
    • meatinternational.com
    • 14 May 2010

    A group of Iranian businessmen is planning to invest up to $40 million in the construction of a livestock breeding complex and a feed plant in Russia's Chelyabinsk region by 2013

  • Hyundai Heavy reaps corns, soybeans at its Russian farmland
    • Yonhap
    • 15 April 2010

    Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., the world's largest shipbuilder, said Thursday that it has harvested 4,500 tons of soybeans and 2,000 tons of corn at its Russian farm.

  • Axis of wheat
    • Forbes
    • 29 January 2010

    "The urgent need is to find countries where India can grow its pulses and its grain, because India's farms may not be enough," says the director of Adani Logistics Ltd

  • Glencore bond an 'opportunity', Chinese group says
    • Agrimoney
    • 24 December 2009

    Glencore's agricultural interests include 300,000 hectares of land in Australia, Kazakhstan, Paraguay, Russia and Ukraine.

  • Korea seeks cheap land overseas to grow food
    • Joong Ang Daily
    • 16 November 2009

    Local provincial governments are working hard to develop farmland in other countries -- Russia, Cambodia, Mongolia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Paraguay, Uruguay -- because it’s cheaper than relying on imports

  • Qatar SWF food unit eyes PAVA stake, seals Sudan deal
    • Reuters
    • 29 October 2009

    Qatar's Hassad Food is eyeing a stake in Russia's PAVA and has signed a deal potentially worth $1 billion to develop land in Sudan as it looks to grow through acquisitions and joint ventures, its chairman said on Thursday.

  • Black Earth plans Russia grain exports, forward sales
    • Bloomberg
    • 22 October 2009

    Black Earth Farming Ltd., which controls an area of Russian farmland four times the size of New York City, plans to start exporting grain and begin forward sales with traders and fertilizer suppliers.

  • Razzia sur les terres arables
    • Public Sénat
    • 22 October 2009

    Acheter des terres arables à l'étranger est devenu un investissement stratégique. Va-t-on vers un dépeçage de certains pays pauvres ? Reportage "Paroles du Monde" avec des représentants d'Agter, Le Monde et Agrogénération.

  • Black earth stirs investors in Russia
    • AFP
    • 12 October 2009

    Swedish company Black Earth Farming (BEF) since 2006 has bought 300,000 hectares (740,000 acres) of Russian farmland after the government finally allowed land to be privatised after decades of state ownership.

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