Canada

Vidéo sur l'accaparement des terres agricoles au Québec

Alors qu'on apprenait récemment que des investisseurs privés procèdent à des acquisitions massives de terres agricoles au profit de caisses de retraite, l'Union des producteurs agricoles au Québec dévoile aujourd'hui une étude sur le phénomène de l'accaparement des terres.

Au cours des dernières années, des consortiums étrangers ont manifesté leur intention de se porter acquéreurs des terres agricoles québécoises. Cette demande vient de pays émergents qui manquent de terres agricoles.

Debates around farmland acquisition have focused mostly on how the phenomenon is playing out in the Global South. Much less attention has been paid to large-scale acquisitions of farmland in wealthier countries like Canada.

The Canadian–based businessman has increased his Marion County land holdings in the past two years nearly sixfold, making him the largest private property owner in the county with 29,000 acres.

Canada could soon get its first exchange-traded farmland management stock.

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 Arable holds a 10,000 hectare concession in the Bas-Congo province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, 200km from the national capital, Kinshasa.

Groups urge people in the US and Canada to take action on land grabbing.

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 Management of Boston is launching a new investment division to acquire farmland in the United States and Canada.

The traditional asset play on agriculture by Wall Street -- farmland -- has pushed to dizzying heights.