Canada

CPPIB buys Saskatchewan farms in $128-million deal
- Globe and Mail
- 12 December 2013
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is buying a portfolio of Saskatchewan farms, with the $128-million purchase of Assiniboia Farmland LP.
Global funds chase Australian farms
- Stock Journal
- 18 November 2013
Global fund managers and some of the world's largest pension funds have bought more than $1.5 billion of agricultural land in Australia over the past three years.
Lancement du rapport « Accaparements des terres à Madagascar : Echos et témoignages du terrain »
- Re:Common, SIF, TANY
- 13 November 2013
Ce nouveau rapport de Re:Common, SIF et TANY vous amènera dans cinq régions de Madagascar et vous apprendra les conséquences et impacts de six projets d'accaparement de terres par des investisseurs étrangers.
"Land grabbing in Madagascar: Echoes and testimonies from the field" report launch
- Re:Common, SIF, TANY
- 13 November 2013
This joint report from Re:Common, SIF and TANY takes the reader through five regions of Madagascar exposing the consequences and impacts of six land grab projects led by foreign investors.
Global farmland offers potential for asset deals
- Financial Post
- 26 September 2013
As the world’s population swells beyond seven billion and emerging markets’ appetite for food grows, Canadian institutions are getting increasingly hungry for agribusiness and farmland acquisitions abroad.
Chinese entrepreneurs plan new wave of settlers
- Western Producer
- 05 September 2013
Two Chinese-Canadian entrepreneurs that have been investing in farmland in Manitoba say they will establish an agricultural fund for Chinese investors who want to own a piece of Canada’s agriculture industry.
La fédération de l’UPA de la Montérégie se préoccupe de l’accaparement des terres agricoles
- Affaires Médias Sud
- 22 August 2013
Une soirée d'information a permis de faire l’état de la situation sur l’accaparement des terres agricoles au Québec et de favoriser les échanges entre les agriculteurs et les panélistes-invités
Les financiers passent à la ferme !
- L'Actualité
- 16 August 2013
Au Québec, les agriculteurs baby-boomers prennent leur retraite. Les terres sont un excellent placement et des milliers d’hectares seront bientôt à vendre. La Banque Nationale, des fonds privés, la Caisse de dépôt s’y intéressent. Et vous ?
Goodman dumps banks for beef to beat inflation
- Bloomberg
- 08 August 2013
Canadian billionaire Ned Goodman holds an 83% stake in Blue Goose Capital Corp. – the largest organic beef operator in North America that produces not only organic beef, but poultry and fish as well.
Terres agricoles: un placement stratégique pour des investisseurs?
- Granby Express
- 07 August 2013
Bien que le phénomène de l’accaparement des terres agricoles par des spéculateurs fonciers reste marginal au Québec, comparativement au reste du Canada, tous les acteurs du milieu s’entendent qu’il vaut mieux prévenir que guérir.
Mega quarry land north of Toronto bought by burgeoning farm fund Bonnefield
- Financial Post
- 13 July 2013
Bonnefield Financial, a farmland investment company based in Ottawa, announced this week that it has acquired about 6,500 acres of lush Dufferin County potato fields in what it called one of the largest farmland transactions in Canadian history.
Pension funds flock to ‘real assets’
- Financial Times
- 16 June 2013
Pension funds across the globe are ramping up holdings of so-called “real assets” such as property, infrastructure and farmland, as they move to protect their portfolios against inflation.