Canada

Under Cibus Fund I’s ownership, Innoliva has doubled its footprint from around 4,300ha of “super high-density” olive-oil production to over 8,300ha of diversified products, including almonds and table olives.

La Chine est en fait très loin de la première place occupée par les entreprises canadiennes, qui possèdent plus de 4,8 millions d'hectares de terres agricoles aux États-Unis, selon le ministère de l'Agriculture.

Canada’s CDPQ has invested in two, large farm operations in Australia through its new A$200m sustainable agricultural platform with Clean Energy Finance Corporation

Canadian company pursuing a carbon offset project in Sierra Leone says it is committed to equitable revenue sharing arrangements with local smallholders and a transparent consent process monitored by the NGO Namati.

Launched during the pandemic in mid-2020, Veripath Farmland Partners has already amassed a total of 115,000 acres under management in 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.