The paper argues that transparency of large corporate farms operating in transition
economies is the factor that affects their competitive position as it helps to preserve access to …

'Land grabbing'in Africa by China, and other populous, high-income Asian countries such as
South Korea, has received considerable attention, while land grabbing in post-Soviet …

В статье рассматриваются причины бурного роста агрохолдингов в 2000-е гг.
Российская специфика состоит в автономности их развития от других хозяйственных …

In the 2000s, Russia emerged as a major player in world agricultural markets, on both the
supply (mainly grain) and demand side. This article examines Russia's agricultural transition …

This paper analyses regional productivity and technical efficiency development in Russian
agriculture. We formulate a regional stochastic frontier model by assuming that producers …

Russia has moved from being a large importer of grain, soybeans, and soybean meal during
the late Soviet period to a major grain exporter. The country has become the world's top …

Expectations of Russia becoming a global 'breadbasket'have been nurtured by its rise to the
top group of global wheat exporters, the abundance of abandoned land, assumed yield …

This article provides pioneering empirical evidence on the ownership structure and firm
performance relationship for the case of corporate agri-food companies in Russia. While …

The transition process did not affect the organisation of agricultural production as originally
anticipated. Since the late 1990s, in Russia and some other CIS countries, numerous large …

The main aim of post-Soviet agrarian reforms was to replace Soviet collective farms with
much smaller family-based structures characteristic of agricultural production in the West …