US

Kinston firm looks to raise $1.5 billion for agriculture investments
- WRAL
- 11 February 2019
International Farming Corp., a Kinston-based agricultural investment company, has raised $404 million in a fund to invest in U.S. farmland.
The major players in agri-finance
- Successful Farming
- 05 February 2019
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 State Investment Council commites $100 million to Homestead Capital's US farmland fund
- GAI
- 05 February 2019
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.
Teachers’ Retirement System of Louisiana creates $100m separate account with AgIS
- GAI
- 29 January 2019
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.
Global asset and risk manager receives Guernsey Green Fund designation
- International Investment
- 21 January 2019
Insight Investment received a Guernsey Green Fund accreditation for its farmland fund, the Global Farmland Fund Limited (GFF), which invests in farming projects worldwide
Civil society groups welcome decision of development bank complaints panel to proceed with complaint from DR Congo communities against palm oil company
- RIAO-RDC et al.
- 15 January 2019
A step forward to resolve a long-standing land conflict with PHC, a subsidiary of Feronia Inc
Les groupes de la société civile accueillent favorablement la décision d'une banque de développement de donner suite à la plainte déposée par des communautés de la RDC contre une société d’huile de palme
- RIAO RDC et al.
- 15 January 2019
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.
Abia community leases 1040-hectare oil palm to Dufil Prima Foods
- Guardian Nigeria
- 11 January 2019
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.
More foreign ownership of NT than anywhere else
- Katherine Times
- 08 January 2019
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.
PSP Investments takes on Hawaiian farmland
- Benefits Canada
- 21 December 2018
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.
Harvard's Endowment profits from California's dwindling water supply
- The Takeaway
- 19 December 2018
In California's wine country, Harvard University's multi-billion dollar endowment is looking to take advantage of water scarcity.
Harvard quietly amasses California vineyards—and the water underneath
- WSJ
- 10 December 2018
Making a bet on climate change, the university’s $39 billion endowment has been snapping up farmland and the related water rights