Canada

Cargill is selling its $48.8 million poultry farm and processing plant in Anhui province to DCP Capital, a Beijing-based private equity firm with Singapore's GIC and Temasek as investors, and the Canadian pension fund CDPQ

The fruit export company received $130m from Canadian private-equity firm Cordiant Capital to grow its production land area to 1,200ha of avocados and 900ha of table grapes.

On the Canadian prairies, some worry about a future where two or three massive farms, or investors, control most of the land in a municipality.

Banks, pension funds and insurers have been turning California's scarce water into enormous profits, leaving people with less to drink

‘Non-traditional’ farmland buyers help drive up prices, highlighting tight land supplies across Canada

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.

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.

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.

Un panorama de cuántos y quienes son los extranjeros que poseen territorio nacional.

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

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

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.