Canada

Get Rich Slow
- Daily Reckoning
- 21 January 2009
Promotional piece for investing in farmland
Agricultural funds up 9.5% in 2008
- Ag Capita
- 20 January 2009
According to Barclay Hedge, agricultural funds were up 9.5% in 2008, while the S&P 500 index lost 36%.
Food security still an issue - Will there be an OPEC for food?
- Ag Capita
- 19 November 2008
Agcapita allows investors to gain direct exposure to a key part of the agriculture commodity bull market story - Canadian farmland.
Angola launches $6bn agriculture expansion
- Financial Times
- 04 October 2008
Angola, one of the world's fastest-growing economies, has launched an ambitious plan to exploit both its fertile soils and high global food prices to attract $6bn (€4.3bn, £3.4bn) in agriculture investments over the next five years.
Govt, India Inc plan to farm land abroad
- Economic Times
- 03 September 2008
Contributing their bit to the global Indian takeover, the government and India Inc plan to buy sizeable land abroad for cultivation. Seen as a long-term answer to keep prices of farm products under control, the grand plan envisages acquisition of large tracts of land in neighbouring countries like Myanmar and far off places like Paraguay.
Fields of gold
- TheStar.com
- 09 August 2008
Big Money from Wall St. to the Middle East are on the hunt for farmland. Canada, especially Ontario, stands to profit but will the costs be too great?
Agricultural investment
- Real Investments Television
- 06 June 2008
Agacpita President Steven Johnston explains the philosophy of investing in farmland
Food Is Gold, So Billions Invested in Farming
- New York Times
- 05 June 2008
Huge investment funds have already poured hundreds of billions of dollars into booming financial markets for commodities like wheat, corn and soybeans. But a few big private investors are starting to make bolder and longer-term bets that the world’s need for food will greatly increase — by buying farmland, fertilizer, grain elevators and shipping equipment.