Calgary-based Veripath has rapidly grown, operating on the conviction that global demand for agricultural products make farmland – particularly Canadian farmland a prime long-term investment.
Voters will decide whether to create a new government entity to take back control of water held by one of Hawaii’s most powerful agribusiness corporations and a Canadian pension fund.
Land ownership concentration and big money are forcing farmers to clear their lands in order to keep up in the Canada's Saskatchewan Province.
Canada's Blended Finance Project interviews Witness Radio and GRAIN about the role public development banks play in facilitating land grabs around the world.
The undertaking will be carried out alongside PSP Investments’ local operating partners on more than 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres) of farmland and timberland.
PSP Investments, one of Canada's largest pension investment managers, to acquire high-quality European agricultural properties, starting with Citri&Co citrus orchards in Spain.
The financialization of farmland further cements Alberta's large-scale, export-oriented, energy-, capital-, and emission-intensive production model.
Saskatchewan implemented similar prohibition back in 2015, prompting pension plans to look to Alberta to buy farmland.
Les attaques sont lourdes. Elles proviennent d’un large ensemble d’ONG et visent la société belge d’investissement pour les pays en développement BIO.
La députée Émilise Lessard-Therrien, porte-parole de Québec solidaire en matière d’agriculture, a déposé un projet de loi à l’Assemblée nationale le 24 mai visant à interdire l’acquisition de terres agricoles par un fonds d’investissement privé et à créer un registre des transactions foncières agricoles.
Canada’s largest pension fund manager has acquired a 75 percent stake in HFE Berries Perú SAC – owner of 100 percent of the Olmos field farming operation which has a planted area of 397 hectares.
When total foreign freehold and leasehold interests are combined China has the largest holding of 2.3pc, shadowed by the United Kingdom (2.2pc), the USA (0.8pc), Netherlands 0.7pc, and Canada with 0.6pc.
