Canada

Feu nourri contre la société publique BIO
- La Libre
- 15 June 2022
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.
Un projet de loi pour contrer l’accaparement des terres
- La Terre
- 04 June 2022
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.
PSP Investments acquires 75% stake in Peru farming operation from Hortifruit
- GAI
- 03 June 2022
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.
Despite fears of foreign control, Aussies own the lion's share of agriculture
- QCL
- 28 Mar 2022
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.
Aussie-Canadian $55-million fund partnership
- Farms.co
- 14 Mar 2022
A joint venture between Australia's Warakirri Asset Management and Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board has acquired a grain growing aggregation in Riverina, Australia for more than $55 million
Australia: Investors pile in for a stake in our biggest beef company
- Queensland Country Life
- 02 Mar 2022
US-based Washington State Investment Board has committed another $A350 million to Queensland-based farm investor Laguna Bay Pastoral Company.
Canadian pension fund invests in ex-plantation privatizing Hawaii’s water
- The Breach
- 23 February 2022
Canadian fund pours $600 million into farming operation in Maui that threatens water supplies vital to Indigenous farmers
Council urges mayor to pursue leases for East Maui water
- Politics on Maui
- 20 January 2022
A company owned by the Canadian Public Sector Pension Investment Board has maintained a single-minded focus on controlling East Maui water since it bought 41,000 acres of ag land in November 2018.
Farmland draws investor interest with inflation running hot
- Bloomberg
- 13 December 2021
The inflation wave that’s sweeping through the global economy is playing into a investment niche that a small group of people in finance have spent years developing: farmland.
Québec solidaire veut mettre fin à la spéculation foncière des terres agricoles
- Journal Horizon
- 29 November 2021
Afin de protéger le garde-manger des Québécois et des Québécoises, la porte-parole de Québec solidaire en matière d’agriculture demande d’interdire l’acquisition des terres agricoles par des sociétés et fonds d’investissement privés.
Fighting agrocolonialism in the Congo
- Cartoon movement
- 26 November 2021
This comic is based on field research conducted around the Feronia palm oil plantation in Tshopo province in north-east DR Congo as part of a British-Academy funded project on “environmental defenders and atmospheres of violence” hosted by the University of Sussex.
Les terres agricoles ne sont plus «achetables»
- Le Soleil
- 23 November 2021
Au Québec, les terres agricoles ne sont plus «achetables» car il faut payer jusqu’à 25 000 dollars l’hectare, dans certains cas extrêmes