Добірка наукової літератури з теми "Foreign farming investment"

The article examines the current trends in the investment activity of hop farming in the main hop-producing countries. The structure of investments in fixed assets of the industry in large specialized farms in the USA (Washington State University methodology), in small farms in the USA (joint methodology of the University of Michigan and Vermont), in average farms in Europe (SIMAHOP methodology of the Slovenian Institute of Hop Research and Brewing) and in farms of the Chuvash Republic — the main hop-producing region of Russia (model CCU of the Czech Republic “Agro-Innovations”). According to the results of the study, it was revealed that the hop growers bear the greatest investment costs at the initial stage — during the construction of the hop frames and the laying of hops. Capital investments at this point account for 50-60% of all long-term investments. On average, 15% to 19% of investments are invested in the purchase of specialized machinery and equipment. From 20% to 30% is occupied by investment costs for hop harvesting points.

This paper investigates the debate about foreign investment in Australian farmland. Employing a moral perspective, it is argued that the apparent tensions over foreign land investments in recent years can be interpreted as a renegotiation of the legitimate grounds upon which farmland investments should take place. The analysis shows that elements of worth are being applied to farmland that go beyond the ‘pure’ treatment of land according to market principles. Most notably, national references, together with concerns about control over strategic resources and the involvement of foreign sovereign entities, have gained prominence. Reacting to these concerns, the investment of domestic superannuation capital has emerged as a moral imperative to keep farmland in ‘national hands’. The paper thus stresses the need for a more nuanced differentiation between different kinds of ‘capital’ and particularly the way they are morally evaluated. The paper furthermore reveals that the linkages between capital and ‘nature’ are not forged in a random or arbitrary way. They are crucially shaped by the societal understanding of the legitimacy of certain kinds of capital and their associated motives and intentions as part of the broader understanding about the rules and principles that should govern economic activities.

The article emphasizes the importance of the agrarian sphere for the stabilization and development of the Ukrainian economy. It is determined that agrosphere is the object of research of representatives of various scientific directions. Terminological inconsistency was found in the definition of such concepts as agrobusiness, agro-industrial complex, agrarian sphere (industry, sector), agriculture, in connection with which their differentiation was made and an attempt was made to outline their content. It is noted that with the development of market relations, the term “agrobusiness” is the most successful and acceptable for defining all processes that occur in the agro-industrial complex. The attention is drawn to the lack of a unified methodology for statistical accounting and a system of generalized indicators of inflow of investments. The principles are generalized, taking into account the international experience, according to which today the collection and analysis of statistical data in the agrarian sector are carried out in Ukraine. The existing problems of statistical accounting of foreign investments into agrarian business are highlighted. A retrospective analysis of foreign investment in the agrarian business of Ukraine was conducted. It was revealed that from 2009 to the present day, the pre-crisis indicators of inflow of foreign investments did not succeed. An estimation of modern tendencies of foreign investment in the agrarian business of Ukraine is carried out. The following perspective factors of investment revival, such as the permanent growth of demand for its products, the reduction of risks, the positive impact of reforms, the diversification of markets, and the expansion of sown areas, are highlighted. The structure of foreign investments in agrarian business is considered. It is noted that the most attractive for investors are such industries as crop production (sunflower growing, barley, corn, rape, wheat, honey, soybeans) and livestock farming, as well as auxiliary activities in agriculture and post-harvest activities. TOP-5 of the largest investor-countries of agrobusiness activity of Ukraine are allocated. The territorial features of financial revenues from foreign investors in Ukrainian agrobusiness are presented. It is generalized that in the regional dimension, the leaders in the volume of foreign investments received are the Kyiv and Ivano-Frankivsk regions, and more than a third of all foreign investment in agriculture, forestry and fisheries of Ukraine falls on the city of Kyiv, where the head offices of many agricultural producers are located. As a conclusion to the article, measures were proposed to improve and improve the structure of foreign investment in agrobusiness in Ukraine both at the state and corporate levels.

The article discusses issues of development of the Batken region of the Kyrgyz Republic. The authors note that in order to increase production in the real sector of the economy of the Batken region, it is necessary to attract foreign and domestic investment in priority sectors of the industrial sector, and stimulate the production of export products from local raw materials. It is proposed to attract large investments for the socio-economic development of the region, as well as the creation of a preferential investment regime for the organization of public or private breeding and seed farming enterprises, small and medium-sized businesses in the adjacent border areas of the region.

AbstractThis study assesses the agricultural sector under the government of Kwame Nkrumah as a dynamic Cold War front. After Ghana's independence in 1957, Nkrumah asserted that the new nation would guard its sovereignty from foreign influence, while recognizing that it needed foreign cooperation and investment. His government embarked upon a development program with an emphasis on diversifying Ghana's agriculture to decrease her dependence on cocoa. Meanwhile, both the United States and the Soviet Union sought to establish footholds in Ghana through agricultural aid, trade, and investments. In the first years of independence, the Ghanaian state encouraged smallholder farming and American investment. Later, in a sudden change of policy, the government established large-scale state farms along the socialist model. This article brings to light the ways that Ghanaians in rural areas engaged with and interpreted the increasingly interventionist agriculture projects and policies of Nkrumah's government.

Large investment in African land has generated serious interest among academicians, policy makers, international and local development agencies as well as civil organization. The debates centre on the phenomenal trajectory and the drivers of this investment in Africa. The inaccuracy or ambiguities in number of deals and institutional specificities has brought in the main, the need to undertake country by country study of foreign land deals in agricultural investment. To suggest vital information that will aid policy formulation and deliberation at country level, the study is on Congo-Brazzaville. This paper explores the factors that influenced foreign land acquisition in Congo, the impact of such investment on the host communities, and faults the decision of the government to make the attraction of foreign investment in agriculture a priority without fashioning out institutional framework that will regulate the investors and promote market discipline. Based on the above, the paper recommends strategies the government should earnestly pursue to mitigate the negativities of the investment and leverage on the benefits of commercial farming in the country, especially, in the area of skill transfer.

Foreign direct investment inflows into Ghana have been a major source of economic growth transformation. Many investing countries aspire to provide Ghana’s economy with new models and direction for development alternatives to foreign aid which will in effect benefit both nations. Given the government’s intention of transforming most agriculture products into finished commodities other than exporting these commodi-ties in their raw states, a new set of incentives and policies to attract investors into the agriculture sector have been initiated. This consists of farming for food provision and employment generation in a bid to moderating the high rate of unemployment aside depending on the normal farming methods. This study sets to investigate the impact of foreign direct investment in the agriculture sector on employment generation. The paper argues that employment created in the agriculture sector was attained through the number of registered projects allocated to various sectors within the Ghanaian economy categorized by the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre. Methodologically, this study utilizes a statistical descriptive approach that backs a summary of the com-plementary analysis of foreign direct investment inflow quantitatively using data on FDI inflows from 2013 to 2018. The result shows that the percentage share of the total number of registered projects allocated and employment created in the agriculture sector through FDI is very low compared to sectors like the manufacturing and service. It was also discovered that the agriculture sector contribution to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the late 90s weighed much higher than the other sectors and contin-uous decline in the 2000s. It is recommended that investors should enter into the agri-culture sector since there are many benefits.

The urgency of tax revenue in a country is something that is emphasized by the government. In this research, Value Added Tax revenue is the focus to be examined because it is related to many economic sectors. Therefore, the government tries to obtain tax revenue from various economic sectors to meet the country's targets and needs. This study aims to determine the impact of the agricultural sector and the manufacturing industry sector on Value Added Tax (VAT) revenues or what we know as Value Added Tax or VAT in the Balkan region on the European continent, with Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) moderation, through descriptive quantitative methods based on data from the World Bank. Through this research, it is found that the agricultural sector hurts VAT revenue, as well as the manufacturing industry sector which hurts VAT revenue. However, for the farming sector and the manufacturing industry sector which are moderated by the Foreign Investment variable, it is found that both do not affect revenue. Then the last moderation variable alone, namely Foreign Investment, does not affect revenue. It is hoped that this research will provide new insights related to the agricultural sector and the industrial sector with its influence on Value Added Tax revenue.

The natural resources as the constituent of the natural environment and their condition are determined, which requires immediate action. The interaction of a person, his activity with the natural environment is characterized. Economic indicators, including price policy, social guarantees, protection and protection of economic activity in comparison with the international and European status are determined. The analysis of components of the environment in Ukraine is given and the legal bases for the settlement and protection of human rights and freedoms are defined. Potentially possible activities for Ukraine are outlined. The vectors of development and support from the state of Ukraine are analyzed. The direction of development of farming, which today is defined as the creation of a legal entity, with the statute, mandatory state registration, with the opening of an account in a financial institution, is determined in the framework of the current regulatory framework. Attention is drawn to the support of family forms of economic activity at the European level. In order to protect natural resources as constituents of the natural environment and components of human life, it is proposed to take measures to support and develop small and medium business entities, as well as directly owners of land plots, including land plots (shares). The prospects for the introduction of organic farming in Ukraine as an element of the state of the environment change are determined. The necessity of taking a number of economic and legal actions that will be directed not only to protect and protect the rights of citizens of Ukraine but also to meet the commitments that Ukraine has assumed through European integration will meet the generally accepted international and European requirements in the field of conducting international relations for different vectors, and also create conditions for attracting foreign investments into Ukraine. Keywords: economic and legal basis, organic farming, European experience, foreign investment, natural resources, environment, landowners, farming, agro-chemicals and pesticides, price policy.

In 2021, a free agricultural land market was opened in Ukraine. So, an increase in investments in the acquisition of agricultural land in Ukraine is expected, which actualizes social problems, particularly guaranteeing the rights of peasants, small producers and small farmers, vulnerable groups of the population, women, and rural youth to own and use land. The risks of land investments for the Ukrainian economy are associated with the loss of a small landowner, the displacement of the farming system, an increase in rural unemployment, violation of the rights of rural communities, and the destruction of the rural living environment. The purpose of the study is to substantiate recommendations for Ukraine based on an analysis of international experience in regulating the processes of attracting responsible land investment and highlighting the basic principles of responsible investment in agriculture and food systems. The main international documents on responsible investments in the implementation of large-scale land projects were analyzed. It has been established that foreign investment in land tenure and land use in Ukraine is associated with high demand due to the availability of supply of agricultural land and the opening of a land sale and purchase market, the transformation of natural resources into commercial assets, a corruption component, and uncertainty with the value of the land. The necessity of the following steps has been substantiated: а) development of recommendations for responsible investment in land tenure and land use; b) introduction of the concept of “responsible land investment” into the national legislative field; c) development of a system for regulating investment activity based on international standards. The author suggested recognizing family farmers, small owners, and small producers, especially women, rural youth, rural residents, as the main responsible investors in the field of land use in Ukraine.

Cette thèse porte sur le contexte foncier à Madagascar et la nature des rapports qui en découlent entre les multinationales, l’État malgache et les paysans dans la région Analanjirofo. L'enjeu est d'étudier les deux formules de droit foncier qui ont été mises en place successivement à Madagascar depuis 2008 et la façon dont elles ont influé sur la vie des agriculteurs locaux qui, pour la plupart, exploitaient jusqu'à présent des terres immatriculées au nom d'anciens colons ou n'avaient pas mis à jour leurs titres fonciers. Il a été ainsi saisi non seulement les pratiques foncières avant et après les réformes entreprises par l'État malgache, mais aussi les limites de ces réformes et les points d'achoppement de cette politique inédite à Madagascar. L'état des lieux concerne des terres agricoles malgaches faisant l'objet ou non de cession par l'État malgache aux investisseurs nationaux et étrangers depuis la mise en place de la réforme foncière dans un contexte où les terres agricoles deviennent de plus en plus rares et chères et où la spéculation foncière devient plus que jamais un moyen de s'enrichir, le but de ces investisseurs étant de pratiquer une agriculture extensive sur des terres qu'ils auront acquises en dehors de leurs territoires d'origine. Dès lors, le foncier s'est retrouvé au cœur des stratégies d'investissement de ces multinationales. C'est dans ce cadre que, depuis 2008, Madagascar est devenu l'un des pays cibles des achats de terres agricoles et minières par des investisseurs internationaux, alors même que Madagascar rencontre des problèmes de sécurité alimentaire, les agriculteurs locaux ne produisant pas assez pour couvrir les besoins alimentaires de la population malgache. Il s'agit de considérer simultanément les intérêts fonciers des agriculteurs locaux, de l'État malgache et des investisseurs étrangers. La deuxième partie précise le contexte local particulier dû au non achèvement de la réforme foncière et à son caractère partiel, cette réforme n'intéresse finalement qu'une partie des terrains dans une commune donnée. La mise en place très partielle de guichets fonciers censés permettre aux agriculteurs locaux d'officialiser leurs biens fonciers se retrouve contemporaine de l'attribution par l'État de terres aux investisseurs étrangers. Cette partie revient sur l'absence d'adhésion effective de la population à la réforme foncière et sur le sentiment d'insécurité foncière qui règne au sein de la population qui se retrouve confrontée à une forme d'accaparement des terres par les investisseurs étrangers dans un climat de confusion entretenu par des statuts juridiques contradictoires des terres, le droit coutumier coexistant avec les guichets fonciers et la cession de terres par l'État aux investisseurs étrangers. Ainsi, pour les agriculteurs locaux, l'accaparement des terres devient un enjeu principal de la réforme foncière. Dans un troisième temps, la thèse va s'attacher à mettre en évidence le contexte dans lequel s'installent les investisseurs étrangers à Madagascar et à montrer pourquoi ces investissements réalisés à des fins de développement les conduisent finalement à une forme d'accaparement des terres. Elle va montrer également les rapports teintés de défiance entre les agriculteurs locaux et les investisseurs étrangers et la perte de confiance des agriculteurs envers l'État malgache, perçu comme manipulateur car utilisant les investissements étrangers pour s'enrichir. Une solution consisterait à, selon la formule consacrée, "donner du temps au temps", en laissant s'appliquer de manière complète et définitive la réforme foncière des guichets fonciers, sans laquelle les paysans sont, de toute évidence, démunis face à l'aspect de la mondialisation que sont les investissements étrangers
This thesis focuses on land context in Madagascar and the nature of relations between multinationals, Malagasy State and farmers in the Analanjirofo region. The challenge is to study two land law formulas that have been implemented successively in Madagascar since 2008 and how they have affected the lives of local farmers who, for the most part, have worked lands registered in the name of former colonists or have not updated their land titles. It has been not only focused on land practices before and after reforms undertaken by the Malagasy State but also on the limits of these reforms and the critical contentious points of this new policy in Madagascar. It made an inventory of Malagasy farmland being subject (or not) to the Malagasy State assignment to domestic and foreign investors for the implementation of land reform in a context where agricultural land is becoming increasingly scarce and expensive, and where property speculation is becoming, more than ever, a way to get rich, the goal of these investors is to practice extensive farming on land they have acquired outside their home territories. Therefore, the land swung at the heart of the multinational investment strategies. It is in this context that, since 2008, Madagascar has become one of the target countries of agricultural land and mine purchases by international investors, even if Madagascar meets food safety issues, local farmers do not produce enough to cover the food needs of the Malagasy population. These are considered simultaneously land and local farmers interests, the Malagasy government and foreign investors. The second part specifies the particular local context due to the non-completion of the land reform and its partial nature, this reform concerns, finally, only a single part of land in a given municipality. The very partial implementation of land tenure offices, intended to allow local farmers to formalise their land goods, is contemporary to the giving away of land to foreign investors by the state. This section returns to the absence of effective public adhesion to land reform and to the feeling of land insecurity among the population confronted by a kind of 'land grabbing' by foreign investors in a climate of confusion maintained by the contradictory legal status of land, customary law coexisting with the land tenure offices and the transfer of land by the State to foreign investors. Thus, for local farmers, 'land grabbing' is a major issue of land reform. Thirdly, the thesis will seek to highlight the context in which foreign investors settle in Madagascar and will show why these investments for the purpose of development eventually lead to a kind of land grabbing. It will also show how relationships between local farmers and foreign investors are tinged with mistrust and the loss of confidence of farmers towards the Malagasy state, which is perceived as manipulative because of the use of foreign investments for self-enrichment. One solution would be, as the saying goes, to "give time to time", by allowing a comprehensive and definitive implementation of land reform and the reform of land tenure offices, without which farmers are obviously powerless in the face of foreign investments, an aspect of globalisation

The Russian economy has been faced with significant environmental challenges, and agriculture—the mainstay of the economy during this period—suffered from consistently low yields. Neither the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, nor Stolypin’s agricultural reform of 1906 succeeded in bringing about fundamental change in Russian farming. Russia also had substantial difficulty in stimulating industrial growth. Before 1917, it had to rely on foreign investment to develop its industrial sector. The pressures of the First World War exposed Russian economic weakness. After 1917, the Bolshevik regime’s attempts to reform both agriculture and industry in the first years of its existence, while at the same time constructing a socialist society, proved unsuccessful. At the end of the 1920s, Stalin’s dictatorship was able to collectivize agriculture and to bring about industrial revolution through the Five-Year-Plans. While these brought short-term economic advantages, the USSR paid a heavy price for the Stalinist revolution.

Ministerial training throughout the nineteenth century was dogged by persistent uncertainties about what Dissenters wanted ministers to do: were they to be preachers or scholars, settled pastors or roving missionaries? Sects and denominations such as the Baptists and Congregationalists invested heavily in the professionalization of ministry, founding, building, and expanding ministerial training colleges whose pompous architecture often expressed their cultural ambitions. That was especially true for the Methodists who had often been wary of a learned ministry, while Presbyterians who had always nursed such a status built an impressive international network of colleges, centred on Princeton Seminary. Among both Methodists and Presbyterians, such institution building could be both bedevilled and eventually stimulated by secessions. Colleges were heavily implicated not just in the supply of domestic ministers but also in foreign mission. Even exceptions to this pattern such as the Quakers who claimed not to have dedicated ministers were tacitly professionalizing training by the end of the century. However, the investment in institutions did not prevent protracted disputes over how academic their training should be. Many very successful Dissenting entrepreneurs, such as Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Thomas Champness, William Booth, and Adoniram Judson Gordon, offered unpretentious vocational training, while in colonies such as Australia there were complaints from Congregationalists and others that the colleges were too high-flying for their requirements. The need to offer a liberal education, which came to include science, as well as systematic theological instruction put strain on the resources of the colleges, a strain that many resolved by farming out the former to secular universities. Many of the controversies generated by theological change among Dissenters centred on colleges because they were disputes about the teaching of biblical criticism and how to resolve the tension between free inquiry and the responsibilities of tutors and students to the wider denomination. Colleges were ill-equipped to accommodate theological change because their heads insisted that theology was a static discipline, central to which was the simple exegesis of Scripture. That generated tensions with their students and caused numerous teachers to be edged out of colleges for heresy, most notoriously Samuel Davidson from Lancashire Independent College and William Robertson Smith from the Aberdeen Free Church College. Nevertheless, even conservatives such as Moses Stuart at Andover had emphasized the importance of keeping one’s exegetical tools up to date, and it became progressively easier in most denominations for college teachers to enjoy intellectual liberty, much as Unitarians had always done. Yet the victory of free inquiry was never complete and pyrrhic in any event as from the end of the century the colleges could not arrest a slow decline in the morale and prospects of Dissenting ministers.

The chapter argues that family security was the first aim of farmers. They believed that given adequate land they could provide for themselves year by year and in time set up their children on farms of their own. As part of this security, all farmers sought to provision themselves. Their account books show why. Farmer accounts were not designed to measure profit. Measuring return on investment as capitalists do was a foreign concept. The farmer’s aim was to remain in balance with the world, to purchase no more than he sold, like national accounts today. To reduce their expenditures, they sought to produce everything they could within the household economy. Even the largest planters, who purchased luxury goods from England, sought to provision themselves by producing their basic needs on their own plantations. All farmers engaged in exchanges with neighbors and traders in order to maximize the obligations owed to them while seeking to provision themselves in every way they could. Tragically, the perpetuation of this family farming system required ever more land. In their effort to provide for their children, farmers relentlessly drove the Native Americans from their tribal possessions. Farmers were both the realization of the American dream and the enactment of the American tragedy.

From this edition, the Financial Stability Report will have fewer pages with some changes in its structure. The purpose of this change is to present the most relevant facts of the financial system and their implications on the financial stability. This allows displaying the analysis more concisely and clearly, as it will focus on describing the evolution of the variables that have the greatest impact on the performance of the financial system, for estimating then the effect of a possible materialization of these risks on the financial health of the institutions. The changing dynamics of the risks faced by the financial system implies that the content of the Report adopts this new structure; therefore, some analyses and series that were regularly included will not necessarily be in each issue. However, the statistical annex that accompanies the publication of the Report will continue to present the series that were traditionally included, regardless of whether or not they are part of the content of the Report. In this way we expect to contribute in a more comprehensive way to the study and analysis of the stability of the Colombian financial system. Executive Summary During the first half of 2015, the main advanced economies showed a slow recovery on their growth, while emerging economies continued with their slowdown trend. Domestic demand in the United States allowed for stabilization on its average growth for the first half of the year, while other developed economies such as the United Kingdom, the euro zone, and Japan showed a more gradual recovery. On the other hand, the Chinese economy exhibited the lowest growth rate in five years, which has resulted in lower global dynamism. This has led to a fall in prices of the main export goods of some Latin American economies, especially oil, whose price has also responded to a larger global supply. The decrease in the terms of trade of the Latin American economies has had an impact on national income, domestic demand, and growth. This scenario has been reflected in increases in sovereign risk spreads, devaluations of stock indices, and depreciation of the exchange rates of most countries in the region. For Colombia, the fall in oil prices has also led to a decline in the terms of trade, resulting in pressure on the dynamics of national income. Additionally, the lower demand for exports helped to widen the current account deficit. This affected the prospects and economic growth of the country during the first half of 2015. This economic context could have an impact on the payment capacity of debtors and on the valuation of investments, affecting the soundness of the financial system. However, the results of the analysis featured in this edition of the Report show that, facing an adverse scenario, the vulnerability of the financial system in terms of solvency and liquidity is low. The analysis of the current situation of credit institutions (CI) shows that growth of the gross loan portfolio remained relatively stable, as well as the loan portfolio quality indicators, except for microcredit, which showed a decrease in these indicators. Regarding liabilities, traditional sources of funding have lost market share versus non-traditional ones (bonds, money market operations and in the interbank market), but still represent more than 70%. Moreover, the solvency indicator remained relatively stable. As for non-banking financial institutions (NBFI), the slowdown observed during the first six months of 2015 in the real annual growth of the assets total, both in the proprietary and third party position, stands out. The analysis of the main debtors of the financial system shows that indebtedness of the private corporate sector has increased in the last year, mostly driven by an increase in the debt balance with domestic and foreign financial institutions. However, the increase in this latter source of funding has been influenced by the depreciation of the Colombian peso vis-à-vis the US dollar since mid-2014. The financial indicators reflected a favorable behavior with respect to the historical average, except for the profitability indicators; although they were below the average, they have shown improvement in the last year. By economic sector, it is noted that the firms focused on farming, mining and transportation activities recorded the highest levels of risk perception by credit institutions, and the largest increases in default levels with respect to those observed in December 2014. Meanwhile, households have shown an increase in the financial burden, mainly due to growth in the consumer loan portfolio, in which the modalities of credit card, payroll deductible loan, revolving and vehicle loan are those that have reported greater increases in risk indicators. On the side of investments that could be affected by the devaluation in the portfolio of credit institutions and non-banking financial institutions (NBFI), the largest share of public debt securities, variable-yield securities and domestic private debt securities is highlighted. The value of these portfolios fell between February and August 2015, driven by the devaluation in the market of these investments throughout the year. Furthermore, the analysis of the liquidity risk indicator (LRI) shows that all intermediaries showed adequate levels and exhibit a stable behavior. Likewise, the fragility analysis of the financial system associated with the increase in the use of non-traditional funding sources does not evidence a greater exposure to liquidity risk. Stress tests assess the impact of the possible joint materialization of credit and market risks, and reveal that neither the aggregate solvency indicator, nor the liquidity risk indicator (LRI) of the system would be below the established legal limits. The entities that result more individually affected have a low share in the total assets of the credit institutions; therefore, a risk to the financial system as a whole is not observed. José Darío Uribe Governor