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Province House, home of the Nova Scotia Legislature, as seen in 2008. (NSLegislature.ca)

Nova Scotia to help black residents get land titles

By Reuters, GFM Network News September 28, 2017

London | Thomson Reuters Foundation — Historic black communities in Nova Scotia will be given funds to establish legal ownership of land where they have lived for generations, the government said, in a drive to solve what critics call a case of long-running discrimination. The provincial government will spend $2.7 million over two years to […] Read more

Crops, News

American farmland titan eyes Canada

Farmers National manages two million acres in the U.S.

By Jennifer Blair October 13, 2015

Reading Time: 4 minutes One of America’s largest farm management and real estate brokerages has expanded into the Canadian Prairies — starting with Alberta. Through a joint partnership with Edmonton-based consulting firm Serecon, Farmers National Company is now “open for business” in Canada. “It seemed like the right fit for the right timing going into the Canadian market,” said […] Read more

Opinion

We need to look at land in the larger context

Fear of ‘peak soil’ is driving global investment and  raising questions about who will control it in the future

By Brenda Schoepp September 30, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutes A man named Louis Glickman once said, “The best investment on Earth – is earth.” And what do we, as farmers, know of this great gift? We know it is the foundation of civilization, the centre of well-being, and the giver of abundance, including joy. We know that it is scarred with the battles that […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Soybeans

Brazil’s Rural Society contests limits on foreign land purchases

By Reuters April 16, 2015

Sao Paulo | Reuters –– Brazil’s Rural Society, a group representing large- and medium-scale farmers, filed a case with the country’s Supreme Court on Thursday seeking to overturn restrictions on the amount of land foreigners can purchase. The attorney general’s office tightened restrictions on foreign land ownership in Brazil in 2010, an action that officials […] Read more

Small farms have been the lifeblood of Senegal but are increasingly being squeezed out. Photo: Belgian Development agency

Crops, Opinion

In Senegal, a land rush is pushing local farmers to the side

Africans without formal title are losing their farms to international biofuel and cash crop companies

By Farm Radio Weekly August 26, 2014

Reading Time: 2 minutes From Farm Radio Weekly, published by Farm Radio International, a Canadian organization that works with farm broadcasters in sub-Saharan Africa Doudou Sow is furious. For the last 10 years, small-scale farmers in his area have been steadily losing their land to an influx of private investors. The Senegalese farmer says that outsiders have been purchasing […] Read more

U.S. grains: Corn, soy futures sag on end-of-month selling

Dominican Republic restricts pig shipments after ASF confirmed

CNH Industrial bets on strong market to counter worst supply chain situation

GFM Network News

U.S. grains: Corn, soy futures sag on end-of-month selling

Dominican Republic restricts pig shipments after ASF confirmed

CNH Industrial bets on strong market to counter worst supply chain situation

Tag Archives land ownership

Nova Scotia to help black residents get land titles

American farmland titan eyes Canada

We need to look at land in the larger context

Brazil’s Rural Society contests limits on foreign land purchases

In Senegal, a land rush is pushing local farmers to the side

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