Canada

Investors trying to decide what world farmland market in which to allocate capital may want to consider an advantage the Canadian market can offer – the ability to participate via an open-ended structure.

Gestion d’actifs mondiale Walter de Montréal acquiert une participation majoritaire dans un fonds canadien de terres agricoles. L’objectif est d’obtenir un rendement de 8% à 10%.

Walter Global Asset Management says farmland is increasingly attractive to institutional and private investors, which puts Bonnefield in a strong position when it comes to growing its portfolio of Canadian farmland

Saudi Arabia’s state grain buyer SAGO said it has agreed to import 355,000 tonnes of wheat from Saudi Arabian-owned farms in Australia, Canada and Ukraine for delivery from May to December 2021.

CDC Group, Norfund, Finnfund, FinDev Canada and BIO announce an $82 million joint commitment to Phatisa Food Fund 2 to invest in agribusiness across Sub-Saharan Africa.

CDC Group, Norfund, Finnfund, FinDev Canada and BIO invest in Phatisa's second African agribusiness fund, even as Phatisa's first DFI-supported fund, the African Agriculture Fund, remains embroiled in land conflicts.

David Del Curto, S.A. is a leading Chilean fruit production, packing and export company, which produces over ten different fruit types across eleven farms, while also managing one of the largest nurseries in the country.

Communities living within the concessions claimed by PHC have long sought to regain control over their lands and have called for negotiations to determine the conditions under which the company may be allowed to continue to operate.

European MPs issue an interparliamentary statement on the “Finance in common summit”, calling on public development banks to stop "harmful investments", such as those in the oil palm plantation company Feronia in the DR Congo.

Agricultural investors say the COVID-19 crisis has had little impact on their business and investment intentions, with Australian agricultural land, water and business assets as appealing as ever to investors.

The Feronia case, and other development bank investment failures, shows that there is a need to overhaul development finance institutions practices and to consider whether it might be better to just shut them down entirely.

Two Harvard-controlled LLCs have deeded over 7,104.74 acres of land in northern San Luis Obispo County, California for an estimated $120.14 million (based upon $132,159 paid in county real estate transfer taxes.)