Since its formal launch in mid-2020, Calgary-based Veripath Farmland Partners has rapidly grown, today reaching approximately $170 million AUM across its portfolios.

Canadian row-crop farmland investments have had Sharpe ratios materially higher than publicly traded equities and bonds over the last 30 years.

Veripath targets $250M fund size by year-end 2021.

Veripath director Stephen Johnston in Global AgInvesting.

Recently, The Nature Conservancy, with participating organizations such as the University of Oregon, Ohio State University, Woods Hole Research Center, the University of Maryland, and the Smithsonian, led a study to determine natural climate solutions for the United States.

Manulife seeks to bring investment portfolio down to carbon neutral by 2050 - its farmland holdings are part of the solution.

That was the situation in the 1970s, when a combination of weak economic growth and surging commodity prices left millions of people relatively poorer.

Canola prices, which have been steadily climbing since Christmas, surged to a 13-year high last week. According to government data, Canada has already exported nearly 33 per cent more canola year-to-date over last year.

Bill Gates, the fourth richest person in the world is the top private farmland owner in America.