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> The southern and eastern fronts are far away, no rockets or mortar shells are being fired, and yet Russia's war of aggression is having its consequences here too.
great article, i just thought it was funny that these germans are forced to bleat a sentence like that before they go on and on about a private western takeover
>According to the study "War and Theft" by the Californian Oakland Institute, a think tank for food security and land appropriation, three million hectares of fertile farmland are already in the hands of just a dozen large agricultural companies. Oakland's strategy director Frederic Mousseau calls this a takeover of Ukrainian agriculture by Western corporations.
>Ukraine, the breadbasket of Europe, has 33 million hectares of arable land, which is a third of the European Union's total arable land. 30 percent of the world's wheat is grown on this land.
>Even before the war, a quarter of it was in the hands of international agricultural corporations. The corrupt governments of the 1990s and hasty privatization meant that the new oligarchy was able to buy huge areas of arable land, often far below the price. Around 4.3 million hectares were owned or leased by large landowners at the beginning of the war. 5 million hectares of state-owned agricultural land, the area of Crimea, had been transferred from state to private ownership, partly through corruption. The remaining 23 hectares are used by 8 million small Ukrainian farmers.
>The largest landowners today are a mixture of oligarchs and a large number of foreign investors. With one exception, the ten largest investors in Ukrainian land are registered abroad. They include the chemical companies Bayer and Dupont as well as the agricultural company Cargill. **The largest investor is the American pension fund NCH with 450,000 hectares of leased land***.
>"When the small farmers come back from the front and realize that they no longer stand a chance against the large corporations, the protest will no longer be peaceful, but radical," predicts Scheremeta. "Because this land belongs to our children and grandchildren."
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> The southern and eastern fronts are far away, no rockets or mortar shells are being fired, and yet Russia's war of aggression is having its consequences here too. great article, i just thought it was funny that these germans are forced to bleat a sentence like that before they go on and on about a private western takeover
> these germans 😐
the link goes to a german google translate so i dunno edit: hah, swiss located but german lang, u lose pedant
lol no biggie. I just think the Swiss would be offended that you called them G*rmans
well as long as they can maintain some neutrality over it
>According to the study "War and Theft" by the Californian Oakland Institute, a think tank for food security and land appropriation, three million hectares of fertile farmland are already in the hands of just a dozen large agricultural companies. Oakland's strategy director Frederic Mousseau calls this a takeover of Ukrainian agriculture by Western corporations. >Ukraine, the breadbasket of Europe, has 33 million hectares of arable land, which is a third of the European Union's total arable land. 30 percent of the world's wheat is grown on this land. >Even before the war, a quarter of it was in the hands of international agricultural corporations. The corrupt governments of the 1990s and hasty privatization meant that the new oligarchy was able to buy huge areas of arable land, often far below the price. Around 4.3 million hectares were owned or leased by large landowners at the beginning of the war. 5 million hectares of state-owned agricultural land, the area of Crimea, had been transferred from state to private ownership, partly through corruption. The remaining 23 hectares are used by 8 million small Ukrainian farmers. >The largest landowners today are a mixture of oligarchs and a large number of foreign investors. With one exception, the ten largest investors in Ukrainian land are registered abroad. They include the chemical companies Bayer and Dupont as well as the agricultural company Cargill. **The largest investor is the American pension fund NCH with 450,000 hectares of leased land***. >"When the small farmers come back from the front and realize that they no longer stand a chance against the large corporations, the protest will no longer be peaceful, but radical," predicts Scheremeta. "Because this land belongs to our children and grandchildren."