Doit-on protéger nos terres?
    Selon l'économiste Marc Urbain Proulx, les groupes chinois sont prêts à contourner la loi en faisant acheter les terres par des personnes qui résident au Québec.
    • RDI
    • 17 Mar 2010
    La Chine sur le point d'acheter des terres québécoises
    Une transaction évaluée à plusieurs dizaines de millions de dollars est sur le point de se conclure dans une municipalité située entre Québec et Drummondville, alors que des investisseurs chinois s'apprêtent à acheter une compagnie «connue» spécialisée dans le secteur agroalimentaire ainsi que plusieurs autres propriétés.
    • Canoë
    • 16 Mar 2010
    Québec : Terres à vendre
    Les campagnes du Canada et du Québec attirent de plus en plus d'investisseurs chinois à la recherche de terres agricoles ou de fermes à vendre.
    • Radio Canada
    • 12 Mar 2010
    Les terres québécoises attirent les Chinois
    Plusieurs pays avec une forte croissance démographique cherchent à acquérir des terres agricoles hors de leurs frontières, avec en toile de fond la crise alimentaire. Cette quête conduit notamment des entreprises chinoises à s'intéresser à des terres arables au Québec.
    • Radio Canada
    • 11 Mar 2010
    Abu Dhabi and Alberta sign strategic economic co-operation
    This three years memorandum is not only setting a framework of cooperation but it includes some specific steps such as mutual beneficial arrangements in the agricultural sector (e.g. investment and provision of grain, development of a grain terminal)
    • Emirates News Agency
    • 20 January 2010
    How best to invest in agriculture: Discussion with Ravi Sood
    Lawrence Asset Management's Ravi Sood suggests investing in food production in low-cost areas that are water-rich – Brazil, tropical Africa, Malaysia and Indonesia.
    • Globe and Mail
    • 11 January 2010
    Former PM backs plans for Canada's 'largest' farm
    A fund founded by former Canadian prime minister Paul Martin has put its money behind a venture aimed at becoming the country's largest farm, aiming to farm at least 50,000 acres within its first year.
    • Agrimoney
    • 23 December 2009
    Healthy balance at stake in plans for food security
    UAE foreign investment in food production have so far focused on leasing Pakistan and Sudan’s agricultural land, with new prospects in Cambodian rice, Canadian wheat and Australian beef. Alongside the strategic deals at the national level, private investment has followed which should open new channels of trade, for example, Al Qudra Holding has plans to grow grain and vegetables in Vietnam and Croatia as well as Pakistan.
    • The National
    • 25 October 2009
    Foreigners own more US farmland
    Foreigners have an interest (partial or total ownership) in 1.6 percent of all privately held US agricultural land, a 1.4 million acre increase from 2007.
    • Delta Farm Press
    • 09 October 2009
    Québec : Des investisseurs chinois lorgnent des terres agricoles
    Des investisseurs chinois lorgnent des terres dans la région de Saint-Hyacinthe.
    • Argent
    • 25 September 2009
    Wealth manager - What about buying up the farm?
    The model of owning farmland and operating it suits long-term, low-risk investors, with most investments so far being from institutions. The downside is that farmland investments provide little chance of a quick exit, unlike more liquid holdings.
    • Reuters
    • 23 September 2009
    Trinorth acquires Unilever's palm oil plantations in DRC
    Canadian investor acquires 100,000 hectare plantation in DRC as part of its investment in farmland and large-scale food crop production in Africa.
    • Press release
    • 03 September 2009

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