Canada

How the land lies
- Knight Frank
- 02 June 2011
Investors are thinking big when it comes to farmland purchases, reports Andrew Shirley in Knight Frank's Wealth Report 2011
Land and land grabbing: Reflections and questions
- Ram's Horn
- 18 May 2011
Brewster Kneen discusses what, in the West, is largely overlooked in discussions about land grabbing: how we conceptualize and think about land and our relationship to it.
How the land lies
- Knight Frank
- 27 April 2011
Agricultural land is once again attracting global investors but the sector is far from risk free.
Foreign investors grab land in Southern Sudan, aid group says
- Bloomberg
- 24 Mar 2011
Foreign investors are buying large tracts of land in Southern Sudan that add up to an area larger than Rwanda, threatening food supplies and stability in the region.
South Sudan threatened by land grab
- NPA
- 23 Mar 2011
Four months before South Sudan becomes an independant nation nine percent of the country has been targeted by investors, a Norwegian People's Aid report reveals.
Betting the farm – and winning
- Macleans
- 17 Mar 2011
Investors are buying Canadian agricultural land, betting that rising food prices, a ballooning global population and growing worldwide scarcities in farmland will mean a payoff for them.
Funds buy Great Southern land
- Dow Jones
- 28 January 2011
Alberta pension fund pays $415 million for more than 1500 square miles of forest in Australia to be converted to timber plantations and agriculture.
Earth grab: No to a biomass economy
- YouTube
- 23 December 2010
Public forum in Canada with farm leaders from the Global South
Why corporate Canada is very interested in buying the farm
- Globe and Mail
- 24 November 2010
Saskatchewan has some of the richest and least expensive farmland in the world, and there's a gigantic pool of global money that would like to buy up as much of it as they can.
Boardroom farmers: Some of the world's biggest agricultural investors
- Globe and Mail
- 24 November 2010
Global investment funds have sunk as much as $20-billion (U.S.) into farmland, last year alone they bought 111 million acres of farmland.
Do corporate buyouts signal the end of the family farm?
- Globe and Mail
- 24 November 2010
“There are people that are dying to invest large sums of money to acquire farmland in Canada that aren't Canadian citizens,” says Jan Kaminski, founder of Bonnefield.
Forum public : Main basse sur la planète
- Collectif TANY
- 12 November 2010
Université de Montréal, le 26 novembre 2010 : Des paysans engagés expliquent comment de grandes entreprises cherchent à s’emparer de la biomasse.