Canada

Farmland is selling, but who’s paying the higher prices?
- Alberta Farm Express
- 04 April 2023
‘Non-traditional’ farmland buyers help drive up prices, highlighting tight land supplies across Canada
Mitolo sells stake to Canadian pension fund
- Food & Drink
- 30 Mar 2023
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has acquired a majority stake in Mitolo Family Farms-- Australia’s largest potato producer and owner of one of the country's largest horticultural land aggregations.
Growing farmland inequality in the Prairies poses problems for all Canadians
- The Conversation
- 28 February 2023
We should be concerned about the financialized logic promoted by investors and mega-farmers, which seeks to extract monetary value from every square inch of farmland.
International buyers enjoying low Aussie dollar to snap up stations and farmland
- Property Tribune
- 25 January 2023
With favourable global economic conditions, including current high commodity prices, and with Australia’s exchange rate at sub USD 0.70, big properties around Australia are changing hands with overseas investors buying in.
Más allá de los chats de Lago Escondido: la extranjerización de la tierra en Argentina
- El Tiempo
- 09 December 2022
Un panorama de cuántos y quienes son los extranjeros que poseen territorio nacional.
Klimat X completes first phase of Sierra Leone reforestation planting
- Klimat X
- 29 November 2022
Total project area covers 25,000 hectares and will produce up to 17 MM tCO2e over life-of-project, with a further 37,000 hectares secured reforestation rights in Sierra Leone
Canadian Mounties super fund snaps up Casella vineyards
- AFR
- 28 November 2022
A large Canadian pension fund which counts the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and defence force workers as members has acquired 35 vineyards in Australia from wine group Casella
Saskatchewan farmers, researchers worry investor-bought land 'empties out the countryside'
- CBC
- 26 November 2022
Farmers and researchers in Canada say this trend could speed up rising costs and force smaller, local farmers to expand or get out of the industry altogether.
Manulife acquires two permanent cropping assets exceeding 1,400 acres in Fresno, California
- GAI
- 18 October 2022
These assets will be added to Manulife’s existing portfolio of 400,000 acres of managed farmland across agricultural regions in Chile, the U.S., Canada, and Australia
Alberta MLA and Quebec MNA showing leadership on farmland ownership, says NFU
- NFU
- 09 September 2022
Canada's National Farmers Union applauds the efforts by two provincial members of parliament tabled in their respective provincial legislatures this spring and attempt to curb farmland grabbing by powerful financial actors.
Un député albertain et une député québécoise font preuve de leadership en matière de propriété agricole, déclare l’UNF
- UNF
- 08 September 2022
L’Union nationale des fermiers du Canada applaudit deux projets de loi d’initiative parlementaire qui furent déposés pour tenter de limiter l’accaparement des terres agricoles par de puissants acteurs financiers.
Sonoma County slates $125 million for agriculture fund
- Pensions & Investments
- 31 August 2022
The $3.4 billion pension fund of Sonoma County, California committed up to $125 million to Fiera Comox Global Agricultural Fund to complement its investment in UBS AgriVest Farmland Fund

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