Sweden

COUNT ME IN! Swedish investor snaps up historic property for $20m
- The Standard
- 28 January 2010
Swedish Count Carl Gustav Wachmeister bought 3,310 ha in Victoria State, Australia
The African land-grab: Creating equitable governance strategies through codes-of-conduct and certification schemes
- Earth System Governance
- 02 December 2009
This paper examines two failed land acquisition processes for food and biofuels production in Africa (SEKAB-Tanzania and Daewoo-Madagascar) with the aim to establishing more equitable governance strategies.
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.
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.
Rufiji interviews: what do they know about SEKAB
- Riches of the Poor
- 20 May 2009
The people who have agreed to give out their land for free to SEKAB have been mislead by unrealistic promises
Cowboys of Kurdistan
- The Kurdish Globe
- 14 Mar 2009
Foreign investors have been given licenses to run cow farms across Kurdistan Region.
Should Africa lease land to foreign firms?
- BBC
- 08 December 2008
One-hour audio debate on the BBC
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.
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.
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.”