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Milking greener pastures
- Sunday Star Times
- 07 December 2008
Faced with high land values and falling milk prices at home, a growing number of New Zealand dairy farmers are investing in South America, the United States, eastern Europe and Russia.
Rich countries carry out '21st century land grab'
- New Scientist
- 04 December 2008
Nomadic herders, rarely a priority for governments, are being dispossessed by bioethanol developments in Kenya, says Michael Taylor of the International Land Coalition (ILC), and they also depend on the “unused” land that Madagascar offered Daewoo.
Farming Makes a Comeback in Russia
- Business Week
- 09 October 2008
Investors are pouring billions into Russian agribusiness—and trying to reverse decades of Soviet mismanagement.
Turkey: International cooperation necessary to boost agricultural productivity
- ALI ASLAN KILIC
- 06 October 2008
The deputy leader of the Democratic Left Party (DSP) Turkey has stated that Turkey possesses some great advantages in agriculture, despite the major problems that remain in place in the sector, but emphasized that it is a mistake to sell agricultural land to foreigners.
Wikileaks: China's succotash security - Plenty of corn (including for exports to North Korea) but not enough beans
- Wikileaks
- 29 September 2008
"Jilin and other corporate entities in China are taking major steps to increase the amount of China-controlled soy plantation both in China and around the world," reports the US Consulate in Shenyang
Russian farming: from basket case to breadbasket?
- Associated Press
- 19 September 2008
Lured by soaring food prices, corporations - both domestic and foreign - have been snapping up land in this fertile region the size of France, replacing inefficient Soviet-style collective farming with modern farming techniques and economies of scale.
Russian farming: from basket case to breadbasket
- Associated Press
- 19 September 2008
“Foreigners who come here get astonished at the gleaming black earth,” said Viktor Karnushin, head of a local subsidiary of Sweden’s Black Earth Farming corporation, one of the biggest foreign players in Russian farming.
All about investing in agricultural land
- Farms.com
- 15 September 2008
As with timberland, while direct ownership and management (i.e., being a farmer), is a possibility, such a route is similarly fraught with difficulties. One of the most significant of these is the issue of diversification in the farmland itself - especially with a single investment. A well-diversified holding of farmland (row crop, permanent crop, pasture and even timber) will, therefore, not only require a significant investment, but may also involve land holdings in a number of different locations.
Russia’s Collective Farms: Hot Capitalist Property
- New York Times
- 31 August 2008
A decade after capitalism transformed Russian industry, an agricultural revolution is stirring the countryside. The change is being driven by soaring global food prices (the price of wheat alone rose 77 percent last year) and a new reform allowing foreigners to own agricultural land. Together, they have created a land rush in rural Russia.
Alpcot Agro: Half yearly report
- Half yearly report Alpcot Agro AB
- 28 August 2008
“I am satisfied with what we have achieved during the first half of 2008. We have been able to combine a fast increase in land under control with successful operations. The harvested area is estimated to be approximately 53,900 hectares with an estimated harvest of approximately 150,600 tonnes, which is higher than expected.”
Investors plow money into Russian farming, but problems remain
- Reuters
- 06 August 2008
Investors are plowing money into Russia’s open lands to resuscitate the long-neglected farm sector and supply a world in ever greater need of food.
On the hunt for farmland in Russia
- Ag Capita
- 25 July 2008
Companies listed on European exchanges have been acquiring large amounts of farmland in Russia