Canada

A company owned by the Canadian Public Sector Pension Investment Board has maintained a single-minded focus on controlling East Maui water since it bought 41,000 acres of ag land in November 2018.

The inflation wave that’s sweeping through the global economy is playing into a investment niche that a small group of people in finance have spent years developing: farmland.

Afin de protéger le garde-manger des Québécois et des Québécoises, la porte-parole de Québec solidaire en matière d’agriculture demande d’interdire l’acquisition des terres agricoles par des sociétés et fonds d’investissement privés.

This comic is based on field research conducted around the Feronia palm oil plantation in Tshopo province in north-east DR Congo as part of a British-Academy funded project on “environmental defenders and atmospheres of violence” hosted by the University of Sussex.

Au Québec, les terres agricoles ne sont plus «achetables» car il faut payer jusqu’à 25 000 dollars l’hectare, dans certains cas extrêmes

New CRS Report shows that foreigners own just under 3% of US farmland, led by Canada (accounting for 30% of foreign holdings), Netherlands (14%), Italy (7%), UK (6%) and Germany (2%).

New Forests and Alberta Investment Management Corporation have agreed to buy Lawson Grains, which owns a 90,500 hectare agricultural land estate across New South Wales and Western Australia.

Australia’s second-biggest farmland investor has sold its Lawson Grains portfolio comprising 105,000 hectares of crop land in NSW and Western Australia to Sydney-based global forestry investment manager New Forests and Canada’s Alberta Investment Management Corporation.

CBRE Agribusiness managing director David Goodfellow says large institutional buyers have a head start on family businesses.

Agriculture, long overlooked as a handy defensive investment space by fund managers more interested in infrastructure, commercial real estate and shopping centres, has become the focus of big spending activity of late.

An Australian company backed by Canada's Public Sector Pension Investment Board has purchased a grain farm in Yuna, Australia for about $30 million

PSP, one of Canada's largest pension investment managers, now adds a further 40,000 hectares to its large farmland holdings in New South Wales.