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Foreigners own more US farmland
- Delta Farm Press
- 09 October 2009
Foreigners have an interest (partial or total ownership) in 1.6 percent of all privately held US agricultural land, a 1.4 million acre increase from 2007.
Québec : Des investisseurs chinois lorgnent des terres agricoles
- Argent
- 25 September 2009
Des investisseurs chinois lorgnent des terres dans la région de Saint-Hyacinthe.
Wealth manager - What about buying up the farm?
- Reuters
- 23 September 2009
The model of owning farmland and operating it suits long-term, low-risk investors, with most investments so far being from institutions. The downside is that farmland investments provide little chance of a quick exit, unlike more liquid holdings.
Trinorth acquires Unilever's palm oil plantations in DRC
- Press release
- 03 September 2009
Canadian investor acquires 100,000 hectare plantation in DRC as part of its investment in farmland and large-scale food crop production in Africa.
Qui nourrira les Québécois ?
- Les Affaires
- 01 September 2009
Les terres agricoles québécoises sont déjà dévorées par des autoroutes, des mégacentres commerciaux, des développements immobiliers et des terrains de golf... Maintenant, ce sont les Chinois qui veulent les acheter !
Des terres convoitées par les Américains
- Radio Canada
- 19 August 2009
Une filiale américaine de la Financière Manuvie qui a récemment fait une percée au Québec en achetant des terres agricoles totalisant 450 hectares dans les Bois-Francs affirme qu'elle est venue au Canada avec la ferme intention d'y rester et d'y prendre de l'expansion.
Cheap Canadian farmland lures foreign buyers
- Mail and Globe
- 19 August 2009
Hancock Agricultural Investment Group, a Boston-based unit of Toronto's Manulife Financial Corp., decided its first Canadian purchase would be an 1,100-acre (450-hectare) patch of land that it called "one of the most highly productive properties in the industry." The company will not disclose how much it paid, or even the exact location of the farm. But president Jeff Conrad said the company is in Canada to stay, and the fund plans to seek more land.
Food crisis: Fields of gold
- Canadian Business
- 12 August 2009
According to Steve Yuzpe, the CFO of Sprott Resource, ongoing population growth, dwindling arable land, water issues, even the falling yield productivity delivered by genetically modified seeds will be the big drivers for continued record demand—pushing food prices ever higher.
Interview: Stephen Johnston, Agcapita Partners
- HedgeWeek
- 11 August 2009
Direct investment in farmland has outperformed stock and bond returns over various timescales with substantially lower volatility than the US equity market, according to Stephen Johnston of Calgary-based Agcapita Partners
David Stevenson: Farmland looks dirt cheap
- Financial Times
- 24 July 2009
While everyone from the Rothschild’s – via the Agrifirma Brazil fund, run with Jim Slater – through to Nicola Horlick and UBS are snapping up farmland in Brazil, I’m fascinated by another niche: Canada and New Zealand.
This land is our land?
- Chronicle Herald
- 28 June 2009
While ordinary Canadians watch their pensions and jobs evaporate in the global economic mess, those who brought us the crisis have found a new profit-making toy. It’s land-grabbing, 21st-century style. Canada is not being spared.
Kingdom, Canada boost trade ties
- Saudi Gazette
- 28 June 2009
Trade minister Stockwell Day said that Canada stands to benefit from the Saudi Kingdom’s overseas agricultural investment initiative and that the Canadian Parliament is studying it.