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Farmland Partners Takes Other REITs To School
2015-11-12 15:49:00| National Real Estate Investor
Dane Bowler In 2015 we have seen large REIT transactions almost universally met with negative responses on fears of empire building, dilution, or other forms of management misalignment. Why is this transaction so different? read more
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Expert says algae cultivation will be needed as rising heat shrinks farmland
2015-10-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Algae may be tiny, but new research suggests the single-celled organisms could play an outsized role in slowing the rate of global warming over the rest of the 21st century. In fact, it is their small size, or rather their small land requirement, that could make them an important tool to help mitigate climate change, according to Brian Walsh, a research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). Unlike most crops that have very specific growing conditions, algae...
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Urban Sprawl Wrecking Italian Farmland through Landslides
2015-09-09 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
ITALY – Reduced rainfall infiltration caused by concreting over grasslands is putting rural communities at risk from landslides, warns an Italian farm group.
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Saskatchewan stops pension funds from buying farmland amid rising prices
2015-04-14 07:24:38| Agriculture - Topix.net
Saskatchewan farmer Larry Spratt's farm near Melfort. Spratt and his father Don expanded their farm in a modern version of crop sharing where they farm land bought by investors.
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B.C. farmland lost to tree planting for carbon credits is a frightening loss
2015-04-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Thousands of hectares of agricultural land in British Columbia are being planted with trees so that companies can gain credits for carbon sequestration, says NDP agricultural critic Lana Popham. During a tour of the province, the MLA has been hearing about the practice from ranchers and farmers who are worried about the loss of food productivity and who say they are being outbid for good farmland by large, foreign corporations. Given the massive drought in California and the uncertain future...
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