EBRD

EBRD channels more resources to support farm land cultivation in Ukraine
- The Financial
- 02 July 2011
EBRD funds Ukrfarm, a subsidiary of the Renaissance Group, to bring an additional 50,000 hectares of land in the Ukraine into crop production.
UkrFarm in Ukraine gets $40 million credit line from EBRD bank
- Bloomberg
- 01 July 2011
The investment is expected to boost Cyprus-based UkrFarm’s arable land holdings in the Ukraine to 300,000 hectares by 2013 from 250,000 hectares.
Investors' message
- Kyiv Post
- 23 June 2011
Thomas Mirow, president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, advises the Ukraine, on behalf of foreign investors, to drop its moratorium on the sale of farmland to foreigners.
Ukraine, Russia grain export curbs deter investors
- Reuters
- 09 Mar 2011
"Politically the (Ukraine) government wants to reassure the population that these traders are not going to export grain while the population starves," says the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
EBRD in US$25 million loan to Mriya Agro Holding
- EBRD
- 31 January 2011
The EBRD is providing a working capital facility worth USD$25 million to Mriya Agro Holding, which controls 220,000 hectares of land in the Ukraine.
Funds: Up on the farm
- BNE
- 25 October 2010
GAIA and others see the most leverage for investment returns coming from emerging market regions like Brazil, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan due to low valuations, low costs of production and low land values.
Fund investments in food and agribusiness: Recent trends in ECA
- EastAgri
- 14 October 2010
Presentation on farmland investment funds in East Europe and Central Asia
The ethics of foreign investment
- Al Majalla
- 04 August 2010
To speak only of the ‘threats and potential opportunities’ that these investments highlight leaves underexposed the grave risks to human rights that they pose, writes Dr. Margot Salomon, from the London School of Economics
Russia's ambitious food plan needs big money
- Reuters
- 09 June 2009
Analysts say Moscow's plan, which would attract international commodity firms, might require a more open approach to investment in land
EBRD backs private investment in ex-Soviet farmland
- Reuters
- 06 June 2009
Russia and other ex-Soviet countries could boost world food supply by encouraging more private investment, the head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said on Saturday.
Kremlin urges grain exporters to tackle world hunger
- Reuters
- 06 June 2009
International executives urged Russia to maximise its potential by encouraging more private investment and opening up more land to foreign investors.
Betting on the Russian farm
- Institutional Investor
- 08 January 2009
"We are seeing a land grab bigger than anywhere else in the world, and it has attracted a mighty cast of characters," says Kingsmill Bond, chief strategist at Troika Dialog, a Moscow brokerage firm.

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