“If predictions of global food shortages prove accurate over the coming decades, there will be big money in food production.” (Jeremy Cooke, BBC reporter, Monday 24th August 2009)

In a special BBC Newsnight television report, Jeremy Cooke looked into why the Chinese, Turkish, Russians and the Libyans are rushing to invest in land in Ukraine.

“As fast as they can get wheat out… it's gobbled up by a ravenous international market”

Global food shortages predicted over the coming decades will translate into big money in food production, and the wheat yield potential of Ukrainian soil justifiably makes Ukraine “the breadbasket” of Europe