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“Ukraine, under burdens of OECD, OSCE, Blackrock land grabbers and such, is why my view remains, that Ukraine must consider that cost”

I agree with your stance. In the U.S., we have same issue.

Bill Gates:
“He started small in 2004, he bought 11 properties, including nine houses, that surround his 5-acre Medina, Wash., estate, creating a buffer zone that is increasingly turning a small hillside neighborhood into a private holding.

“There’s not too many non-Gates property owners left here,” said Herb Schwartz, a former insurance executive who moved into the Medina neighborhood 13 years ago.”The properties, totaling 4.2 acres, were acquired by a representative for the Microsoft co-founder between 1994 and 2003 at a cost of nearly $14.4 million, according to property records.
Now he is buying massive acreage in multiple states using different corporations: corporate mailing address for Angelina is the same as that for Cottonwood Ag Management, an agriculture asset management team for BMGI / Cascade Investment, the private holding company for Bill and Melinda.
Gates. i.e. 14,500-acre farmland property in southern Washington for $171 million: focus on sweetcorn and wheat. Also, AZ, LA WA, GA FL & probably more. Also, buyer of a group of farmland assets sold by the C$366.3 billion ($258 billion; €221 billion) Canada Pension Plan Investment Board for $520 million.

Apparently, he is interested in everything:
“A source familiar with US farmland markets told Agri Investor they believed Angelina Ag to contain a 26,000-acre property in Monterey, Louisiana formerly owned by Bernard Ebbers, a co-founder of failed communications company WorldCom, and reportedly sold for $31 million in 2006.

According to her LinkedIn profile, Caroline Orlowski, who currently serves as an asset manager at Cottonwood, previously worked as an assistant general manager for farm and grain at Oak River Farms, a role described as managing a 25,000-acre farming operation in Monterey, Louisiana.

Acknowledging that a great degree of uncertainty surrounds the corporate structure behind Gates’s farmland investments and stressing their view was based on second-hand information, the source said the 2006 purchase had been among the first significant agriculture investments by the Microsoft founder. The source said they believed Cottonwood to be a broader management company currently overseen by former MetLife managing director Peter Headley, under which subsidiaries like Angelina have been established around specific regions or portfolios of acquired properties.”

Alan Busacca, a wine industry consultant who was formerly a professor of soil science and agriculture at Washington State University, told Agri Investor that the Horse Heaven Hills region where Angelina reportedly made its purchase is among the most productive in Washington for irrigated agriculture. Among the crops grown in the region, according to Busacca, are apples, cherries, carrots and potatoes, though the land purchased by Angelina is best suited to irrigated row and field crops.
“It [the property acquired by Angelina] does not have the rolling-hill character and the higher elevations that are commonly needed for permanent crops like tree-fruit and wine grapes,” he explained.

Investor interest in the region has grown significantly in recent years, said Busacca, who added that land prices in the area have been heavily influenced by water access. People began converting what had previously been cattle-grazing land near the Columbia River during the 1960s and 1970s, said Busacca. Because the elevation increases to the north of the river, he added, as the water table has dropped over recent decades, farmland buyers have increasingly prioritized reliable access to water.

Busacca said the property purchased by Angelina sits within what today constitutes a growing nexus of processing plants, transportation infrastructure and low-cost hydropower and wind electricity that is facilitating a regional transition from irrigated wheat and field corn to higher-value crops such as carrots, onions and tree-fruit.
“Having lived in Washington State for 35 years, every time I drive through the area of Horse Haven Hills, I’m stunned by the continued intensification of development, going from lower-value crops to higher-value crops,” said Busacca. “They’re [Cottonwood / Angelina] making a very smart play for those being reliable money makers.” He added that, similarly to how access to water has helped determine land values for farmland in the region surrounding the Columbia River, he is also aware of growing interest in large properties drawing from southern Idaho’s Snake River, a tributary of the Columbia.

“I do think – based on my gut and the little bit of scuttlebutt I hear now and again – that there is an increased in Washington State and Idaho ag.”

Meanwhile, Bill Gates owns Cascade Investment LLC, which owns Los Arboles LLC, which changed its name to Cottonwood Ag Management LLC, which bought land in Echols County on the Alapahoochee River, a year after Bill Gates said he was going to fix agriculture in conjunction with Monsanto and Syngenta.

Matthew Herper wrote for Forbes 24 Jan 2012 Bill Gates’ Next
Target: Revolutionize Farming,
“America’s richest man says that it is a terrible irony that most of the billion people, 15% of the world population, who live in extreme poverty and must worry about where they will get their next meal are suffering on farms.

He says that the world needs to repeat the “Green Revolution” of the 1960s and 1970s, when new farming technologies, including new seed varieties of rice, wheat, and corn, increased the amount of food available and decreased its price.

It’s not clear to me the world really has a food shortage. It has a food distribution problem, which has a lot to do with massive amounts of U.S. midwest corn fields being grown for fuel rather than food, with SAUDIS and CHINESE buying up farmland in AFRICA displacing the locals, and with MONSANTO-STYLE pesticided agriculture replacing lots of small farmers with MEGA-FARMS dependent on massive amounts of petrochemical pesticides.”

Cottonwood Ag, a privately-owned Agricultural Asset Management Company, a subsidiary of a highly-regarded, multi-billion dollar private investment company, is seeking an exceptional candidate for a Senior Asset Manager position, reporting to the Head of Agriculture. The company manages an agribusiness portfolio both domestically and internationally that encompasses approximately 250k acreas across multiple states with growing ..

That’s right, 250,000 acres across multiple states. Why?
IF I let my mind wander: will Gates control gov’ts with mandatory vaccintions, food supply

BTW, Check-out the Big-Box Food Chains bragging about their World-wide’ grocery products. Publix, Walmart, Target, etc.
Our small farmers are hurting in FL because even if they sell their product cheaper, these chains but from Mexico! Example: strawberries.