Canada

ETF may stand for exchange-traded farmland
- Financial Post
- 19 January 2012
Canada could soon get its first exchange-traded farmland management stock.
Bonnefield Canadian Farmland Corp. announces filing of preliminary prospectus for initial public offering
- Bonnefield
- 18 January 2012
The Company has been established to provide investors with a liquid investment in primarily Canadian farmland and will seek to assemble a farmland portfolio which is diversified as to geography, crop type and farmer.
Feronia Inc. completes largest single rice planting in DRC
- Feronia Inc.
- 30 November 2011
Feronia Arable holds a 10,000 hectare concession in the Bas-Congo province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, 200km from the national capital, Kinshasa.
Stand up for small-scale food producers
- Grassroots International
- 29 September 2011
Groups urge people in the US and Canada to take action on land grabbing.
Feronia's ambitions in Africa reach beyond palm oil plantations
- Proactive Investors
- 09 September 2011
Feronia Inc. got into the palm oil business in September 2009 through the purchase of a 100,000 hectare plantation in the Democratic Republic of Congo from Unilever.
AEW Capital launches unit to acquire farmland
- Boston Business Journal
- 07 September 2011
AEW Capital Management of Boston is launching a new investment division to acquire farmland in the United States and Canada.
Investors seeing gold in US farmland, infrastructure
- Reuters
- 20 August 2011
The traditional asset play on agriculture by Wall Street -- farmland -- has pushed to dizzying heights.
Farmers demand owners' register
- The Age
- 04 August 2011
Farmers have urged the state government to establish a register that would list Victorian farms that have been bought by foreign owners. The call comes as concerns grow over the level of foreign ownership of Australian farms and over the control of productive food resources.
Shut the gate: why cash-strapped landowners are selling the farm
- SMH
- 01 August 2011
Australians do realise the value of what is being sold, a land agent and rural property specialist said, "but their hands are tied because they can't raise the money".
Biofuels land grab in Kenya's Tana Delta fuels talk of war
- The Guardian
- 02 July 2011
Villagers vow to resist as wildlife vanishes and they are driven from their land to make way for water-thirsty crops.
Canadian farmland & agri-business investment seminar to be held September 22 in Toronto
- Bonnefield
- 22 June 2011
leading experts in Canadian farmland investment and agri-business investment will meet at the Canadian Farmland & Agri-Business Investment Seminar.
François Legault contre la propriété étrangère
- La Terre
- 03 June 2011
La Coalition pour l’avenir du Québec propose diverses mesures pour protéger les terres agricoles québécoises de la convoitise des investisseurs étrangers.