Overviews
16 November 2018
Why agroholdings go bankrupt. The case of Ivolga
Overview -Largescaleagriculture.com starts a series of publications on financial distress in big agricultural companies based on evidences from a number of countries. The financial problems of some of the largest Kazakhstan-based agroholdings Alibi, Ivolga, KazExportAstyk and Atameken-Agro have recently become a well-known fact due to a wide coverage in loc...
26 June 2018
Social cook book: the CSR recipes of agroholdings
Overview -Large agricultural companies interact with tens of thousands of stakeholders as their operations are located in hundreds of communities. How do these companies address their stakeholders? An example from Ukraine, published on agroportal.ua, provides some answers to this question.
18 June 2018
International Financial Institutions (IFIs): How much money do agroholdings need? More!
Overview -International financial institutions (IFIs) play an important role in the capital formation of large agroholdings. In order to expand their businesses, agroholdings conclude many loan agreements with various IFIs every year. This allows agricultural companies to build new production facilities, invest in new technologies and expand their land operations. On the other hand, such activities are often criticized in Western countries, because IFIs get their funding predominantly from Western taxpayers.
31 December 2017
What is an agroholding?
Overview -The rapid development of large farming structures in transition and emerging market economies not only challenges the traditional views on production organization, but also confuses the research community with respect to the very definition of an object of inquiry.
07 September 2017
Large scale agriculture gains in importance globally
Overview -Why should one start paying more attention to large scale agriculture? Coupled with new scientific findings about the effects of climate change, new consumer trends, sustainability and environmental problems, the issue of acquiring agricultural land has become more important recently.