The transition to a bioeconomy is a potential game changer that may have a large impact on food and nutrition security, as well as on the ways in which agri-food systems are designed and operated. Large-scale farms are contributing to this process by increasingly implementing modern biotechnologies. Are these investments efficient and…

Digital innovations are seen as one of the major drivers behind the growth of food economy in the future. At the same time, large-scale farms all over the world tend to have better access to technologies and implement new solutions more actively as compared to smaller farms. 

To understand how this problem is addressed in China, we interviewed…

Digital technologies are actively transforming today’s agriculture. One globally striking example where digital technologies are being increasingly introduced is the agricultural sector of Ukraine. In this Eastern European country, 4.5 million hectares of the total of 32 million hectares of arable land countrywide are being supervised by unmanned…

A vertically-integrated agroholding with 370,000 hectares of farmland, 30 subsidiaries and 30,000 employees in 13 regions of Ukraine, MHP is the country’s largest producer and exporter of poultry meat today. It also owns the Slovenia-based Perutnina Ptuj, one of Europe’s largest meat processing corporations that employs more than 3,500 people in…

In her research, Dilini Abeygunawardane focuses on understanding land use and agricultural development trajectories in the developing world. For over three years, she has been working with the MIDLAND project at University of Louvain, Belgium, studying agriculture and forestry investments in emerging and frontier markets in Southern and Eastern…

Characterized by presence of state-owned and family farms, the structure of agricultural production in China is currently undergoing substantial transformation. In 2013, a family farm was officially recognized as a new type of agricultural production in the No. 1 Central Document of Chinese government. The term ‘family farm’ refers in today’s China…

In 2015, the news about financial problems at Ivolga Holding, then the largest agricultural holding in the post-Soviet region, came as a bombshell. At that time, Ivolga Holding was operating about 1.5 million hectares of farmland in Kazakhstan and Russia. The court did not approve bankruptcy of Ivolga Holding, but the company’s owners drew a lesson…