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The acquisition gives New York-based asset manager WisdomTree approximately $1.85 billion in assets under management across approximately 545 US farmland properties spanning 12 states, predominantly in the Midwest.

Un régime de retraite canadien vient de prendre le contrôle exclusif du système d’irrigation le plus important d’Hawaï et d’empocher 75 millions de dollars aux dépens de son ancien propriétaire, une plantation sucrière, tandis que se dessine un bras de fer avec un nouvel organisme public de gestion de l’eau.

A Canadian pension fund has just taken sole control of Hawaii's largest irrigation system and pocketed $75 million at the expense of its former owner, a sugar plantation, while a standoff with a new public water management agency looms.

Mardi 8 juillet, plusieurs membres du gouvernement américain ont annoncé leur volonté d’interdire aux investisseurs chinois l’acquisition de terres agricoles aux États-Unis, invoquant un enjeu de sécurité nationale. Trump semble avoir également dans le viseur les actuels propriétaires.

When Microsoft announced a 10-year carbon removal deal with US forestry credits firm Aurora, some people with a Bristol, UK pension pool were paying close attention.

La Chine a condamné mercredi les mesures envisagées par l'administration américaine pour interdire aux investisseurs chinois d'acquérir des terres agricoles américaines, dénonçant une pratique «discriminatoire».

Washington compte «prendre rapidement des mesures législatives et exécutives pour interdire l'acquisition de terres agricoles américaines aux ressortissants chinois et à d'autres adversaires étrangers», a affirmé la ministre de l'Agriculture Brooke Rollins

The US Department of Agriculture will work with state lawmakers to end farmland purchases "by nationals for countries of concern or other foreign adversaries".

The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation owns more than 540,000 acres of land in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, making it the single largest owner of foreign agricultural land in the US state.

The Rohatyn Group, a private equity firm based in New York, is now the largest owner of agricultural land in the state of Michigan, making acquisitions through offshore companies registered in Singapore

Private equity firms — notorious for buying up private companies, often with the goal of selling them quickly — have lately accelerated their investments in California wineries, targeting famous Napa Valley estates.

Protest by community members opposed to a soil carbon project on Indigenous-owned grazing land prevented the signing of a 40-year lease on some 68,000 hectares of land as part of the much larger Kajiado Rangeland Carbon Project.