Three reports have been released recently that document how a massive interlinked corporate system is consolidating control over farmland in the high-tech production regions of the U.S. and the EU, and also especially in Ukraine. First, look at Ukraine, a kind of model, given the way the globalists moved in to dominate agriculture beginning in the 1990s.
Ukraine. See “War and Theft, The Takeover of Ukraine’s Agricultural Land,” a 33-page report posted Feb. 21, 2023, by the Oakland Institute, an authority on what has happened in agriculture since the 1990s in Ukraine. Land takeovers are underway from a mix of oligarchs and various investment groupings. They are mostly North American and Europe-based, involving private equity funds, and the Saudi Arabia sovereign fund. “All but one of the ten largest land holding firms are registered overseas, mainly in tax havens such as Cyprus or Luxembourg.” The report identifies prominent investors, like the Vanguard Group, the Goldman Sachs-owned NN Investment Partners Holdings; and there are a number of large U.S. pension funds, foundations, and university endowments invested in Ukrainian land through NCH Capital—a U.S.-based private equity fund, the fifth largest landholder in Ukraine.
