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International Farming Corp., a Kinston-based agricultural investment company, has raised $404 million in a fund to invest in U.S. farmland.

According to the USDA, the following countries are home to the largest holders of US cropland: Canada, Germany, the UK and the Netherlands.

New Jersey’s $70 billion public-employee pension manager, the New Jersey State Investment Council, has agreed to commit $100 million in Homestead Capital’s third farmland fund.

TRSL has also expanded another of its separate accounts held with Hancock Agricultural Investment Group by $25 million, focusing on farmland in the US and Australia.

Insight Investment received a Guernsey Green Fund accreditation for its farmland fund, the Global Farmland Fund Limited (GFF), which invests in farming projects worldwide

A step forward to resolve a long-standing land conflict with PHC, a subsidiary of Feronia Inc

Cela signifie un pas en avant pour résoudre un conflit foncier de longue date avec les Plantations et Huileries du Congo (PHC), une filiale de la société canadienne, Feronia Inc.

A 1040-hectare oil palm farm has been given by Amokwe and Okai villages of Bende, Abia State, Nigeria to Dufil Prima Foods Plc, a company whose owners include Kellog's and PT Indofood, to enable it source its raw materials.

Foreign ownership of Australian agricultural land rose more than two million hectares in the past year, with investors from the island nation of the Bahamas buying up 2,201,000 hectares.

Through a joint venture with California-based agricultural firm Pomona Farming, the Public Sector Pension Investment Board of Canada is buying about 165 square kilometres of land to diversify into GMO-free farms.

In California's wine country, Harvard University's multi-billion dollar endowment is looking to take advantage of water scarcity.

Making a bet on climate change, the university’s $39 billion endowment has been snapping up farmland and the related water rights