• Qui nourrira les Québécois ?
    • Les Affaires
    • 01 September 2009

    Les terres agricoles québécoises sont déjà dévorées par des autoroutes, des mégacentres commerciaux, des développements immobiliers et des terrains de golf... Maintenant, ce sont les Chinois qui veulent les acheter !

  • Des terres convoitées par les Américains
    • Radio Canada
    • 19 August 2009

    Une filiale américaine de la Financière Manuvie qui a récemment fait une percée au Québec en achetant des terres agricoles totalisant 450 hectares dans les Bois-Francs affirme qu'elle est venue au Canada avec la ferme intention d'y rester et d'y prendre de l'expansion.

  • Cheap Canadian farmland lures foreign buyers
    • Mail and Globe
    • 19 August 2009

    Hancock Agricultural Investment Group, a Boston-based unit of Toronto's Manulife Financial Corp., decided its first Canadian purchase would be an 1,100-acre (450-hectare) patch of land that it called "one of the most highly productive properties in the industry." The company will not disclose how much it paid, or even the exact location of the farm. But president Jeff Conrad said the company is in Canada to stay, and the fund plans to seek more land.

  • Food crisis: Fields of gold
    • Canadian Business
    • 12 August 2009

    According to Steve Yuzpe, the CFO of Sprott Resource, ongoing population growth, dwindling arable land, water issues, even the falling yield productivity delivered by genetically modified seeds will be the big drivers for continued record demand—pushing food prices ever higher.

  • Interview: Stephen Johnston, Agcapita Partners
    • HedgeWeek
    • 11 August 2009

    Direct investment in farmland has outperformed stock and bond returns over various timescales with substantially lower volatility than the US equity market, according to Stephen Johnston of Calgary-based Agcapita Partners

  • David Stevenson: Farmland looks dirt cheap
    • Financial Times
    • 24 July 2009

    While everyone from the Rothschild’s – via the Agrifirma Brazil fund, run with Jim Slater – through to Nicola Horlick and UBS are snapping up farmland in Brazil, I’m fascinated by another niche: Canada and New Zealand.

  • This land is our land?
    • Chronicle Herald
    • 28 June 2009

    While ordinary Canadians watch their pensions and jobs evaporate in the global economic mess, those who brought us the crisis have found a new profit-making toy. It’s land-grabbing, 21st-century style. Canada is not being spared.

  • Kingdom, Canada boost trade ties
    • Saudi Gazette
    • 28 June 2009

    Trade minister Stockwell Day said that Canada stands to benefit from the Saudi Kingdom’s overseas agricultural investment initiative and that the Canadian Parliament is studying it.

  • Flow of investment dollars to farms seen growing
    • Reuters
    • 23 June 2009

    From Kansas to Kenya, investment opportunities in a range of global farm-related ventures are increasingly drawing capital to what many players and analysts see as the early days of a burgeoning bull market in agriculture.

  • Farmland investing: the quiet land grab is just beginning
    • The Market Oracle
    • 12 June 2009

    An investor analysis of the case for buying up farmland

  • Sowing the seeds of regret?
    • Globe and Mail
    • 08 April 2009

    Increasingly, the land deals are coming under the scrutiny of the UN and watchdog groups such as Grain, the International Land Coalition and the IFPRI. That's because it is not obvious that they are win-win situations.

  • Sprott still goes with the grain
    • Jaime Strugeon, Financial Post
    • 27 Mar 2009

    Eric Sprott's hunger for commodities may have wavered since last year's price collapse took a hefty strip off revenues at Sprott Inc., his money-management business. However, the legendary hedge-fund manager is still placing bets on at least one commodity: grain.

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