Veripath Farmland Partners is pleased to release its research report on farmland loss trends in Canada.

CALGARY, AB, CANADA, October 1, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ --
Veripath Farmland Partners is pleased to release its research report on farmland loss trends in Canada. Canada continues to lose farmland acres to soil degradation and urban development consistent with global trends:

• Each year Canada loses approximately 50,000 to 60,000 acres of farmland to urban expansion.
• It is estimated that for every million increase in population, Canada loses 131,000 acres of farmland near urban areas.

Veripath Partners operate open-ended farmland investment funds with a mandate to purchase farmland for the purpose of farming while employing responsible and sustainable farmland management practices.

The full Farmland Loss Trends in Canada report can be found here.

https://veripathfarmland.com/2021/10/01/farmland-loss-trends-in-canada/

Who is Veripath: Veripath is a Canadian alternative investment firm. Members of Veripath’s management team have decades of farmland, private equity, and private credit investment experience. Veripath manages over 90,000 acres across its active portfolios. Fact sheets can be found here – www.veripathfarmland.com/investors. The Veripath Canadian farmland investment thesis has a number of interesting elements, a few of are highlighted below.

• Value: Canada has some of the most competitively priced farmland in the developed world – particularly on a productivity adjusted pricing basis
• Portfolio Construction: Farmland exhibits low correlation to traditional stock/bond investments so can improve portfolio risk adjusted returns through enhanced diversification
• ESG: Western Canadian zero-till portfolios capture material amounts of carbon
• Inflation Hedging: Farmland has strong inflation/stagflation hedging capabilities and outperforms in real terms during period of low real rates/high inflation
• Demand: Farmland is non-volatile way to capture the incremental demand coming from the emerging economies for food, feed, fuel and water (China and India alone are ~$3b people on the path to becoming middle class)
• Risk: Veripath constructs highly diversified, non-operated portfolios using limited leverage to capture the pure returns generated by land appreciation in the most non-volatile way possible.
• Open-ended: Veripath operates a unique open-ended approach so beyond the initial short contractual hold period you can set the investment duration that best suits investor liquidity and portfolio construction needs.
• Monitoring: Veripath has a proprietary land management system using an inhouse software platform combined with satellite monitoring and AI crop analysis
• Geographic Split: Veripath divides the Canadian market into two separate geographies of ~84M acres each in order to streamline and simplify farmland ownership regulatory compliance. UR Fund invests in all of Canada (excluding SK and MB), R Fund invests just in SK and MB. The two sister funds have the same terms, fee structures and return expectations.

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