Canada

In a rare rejection of New Zealand's Overseas Investment Office application, Canadians have been barred from buying more than 4500ha of South Island farmland.

The loan to the Canadian palm oil company operating in the DR Congo is provided by CDC Group plc, the UK Government’s development finance institution, and follows another $5 million facility announced on October 28, 2019

A century of ever-increasing farm size and land concentration is now leading Canada into a new era of speculation on farmland -- one where private companies not traditionally involved in agriculture are acquiring tracks of land.

Feronia, a company 38% owned by the UK government’s development bank, has been accused of a series of environmental and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Quatre banques européennes de développement, dont la société publique belge Bio, financent une entreprise produisant de l’huile de palme en République démocratique du Congo qui viole les droits des travailleurs et rejette des déchets non traités, a déclaré l’organisation de défense des droits de l’homme Human Rights Watch

With very low interest rates having taken root across asset classes and investors abiding in their hunt for higher yields, the world’s largest manager of global farmland, Nuveen, says the season may be ripe for a strategic allocation to the $2.3 trillion market for U.S. farm real estate.

One of Quebec’s largest private investors thinks he has found the perfect investment vehicles to make up for sagging bond returns: milk, almonds and maple syrup.

The Dutch newspaper Trouw identified at least seven projects that FMO funded in which the companies involved were connected to murder, intimidation, environmental damage, arbitrary arrests and land grabbing.

Greenpeace Afrique alerte sur des violations de droits humains dans un conflit forestier opposant la communauté Yalifombo et la société Plantations et Huileries du Congo SA (PHC) appartenant à la firme canadienne Feronia Inc dans la province de la Tshopo.

Au sein du producteur d’huile de palme, c’est désormais le Belge d’origine congolaise Frank Braeken, président du conseil d’administration depuis août 2016, ancien d’Unilever, qui est en première ligne.

Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board has made another move to deepen its presence in Australian agriculture, taking full ownership of the largest irrigated farmer in Australia.

Canadian fund manager PSP Investments, a public service pension fund, has put in an offer for Australia's Webster farms, including their water entitlements, that values the diversified agribusiness at $854 million