Insights and Stories on Farmland

Saskatchewan farmland off limits for pension plans next month

Dec. 21, 2015 at 6:14 pm CST

Reuters/Staff — New rules for buying farmland in Saskatchewan, Canada’s biggest wheat- and canola-growing province, will take effect Jan. 4, and toughen its ban on pension plans investing, the provincial government said Monday. The changes make more explicit an existing ban on pension plans and trusts from buying land and […]

Australia blocks foreign firm’s deal for largest farm owner

Nov. 19, 2015 at 1:24 pm CST

By Colin Packham Lincoln Feast

India’s Modi battles opposition to key land reform

Jul. 15, 2015 at 5:18 pm CDT

By frank-jack-daniel

Funds blocked from investing in Sask. farmland, for now

Apr. 13, 2015 at 7:41 pm CDT

By Staff

S. Africa’s proposed ban on foreign land ownership aimed at farms

Feb. 17, 2015 at 11:41 am CST

By Reuters

Australia tightens rules over foreign buying of farmland

Feb. 12, 2015 at 7:24 pm CST

Sydney | Reuters –– Australia tightened rules on Wednesday over foreign ownership of its agricultural land amid concerns that it is losing control of its own food security, slashing the amount beyond which land purchases would require regulatory approval. From March 1, foreign purchases of agricultural land over A$15 million […]

By Colin Packham

Sask. eyes tougher rules on investor farm buys

Jan. 26, 2015 at 6:00 pm CST

Saskatoon | Reuters — Saskatchewan is likely to tighten what are already some of North America’s strictest rules for purchasing farmland, as it looks to fend off big money managers hungry for what they see as a winning investment. The province, whose fertile plains grow more wheat than Argentina, has […]

By Rod Nickel

Foreign ‘land grabs’ seeing redrawing global farmland ownership map

Nov. 29, 2014 at 2:28 pm CST

Rome | Thomson Reuters Foundation — A handful of wealthy countries are responsible for most international farmland acquisitions — what some critics term “land grabs” — in a trend that is redrawing the global map of land ownership, a new study has found. China, the U.S., Britain, Germany, Singapore and […]

By Chris Arsenault

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