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Apologies for x-posting Check our latest guest contribution @ the institutional landscapes project by Andre Magnan and Annette A. Desmarais. Their research collaboration on prairie farmland dates to 2014, when, along with colleagues, they piloted a method for using land titles data to get to the bottom of a seemingly simple question: Who owns the land? They launched this collaboration because of growing media attention and anecdotal reports about large-scale investor purchases of farmland in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada’s top grains and oilseeds producer and exporter. In this piece, they reveal some of the political, financial, and methodological hurdles encountered in obtaining and using land titles data during a multi-year study of changing farmland ownership patterns on the Canadian prairies. Read more here…<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Finstitutionallandscapes.org%2Fcontribution%2F9-sorting-out-ownership-questions-digging-into-financialization-through-land-titles-data%2F&data=05%7C01%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7C08e01a94742c4d403c8f08db5474bb5a%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C638196632561337005%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=woLbFl0lu9LANhvWPxwpCFnu5o9975upFVmobl%2F9TfM%3D&reserved=0> or here: https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Finstitutionallandscapes.org%2Fcontribution%2F9-sorting-out-ownership-questions-digging-into-financialization-through-land-titles-data%2F&data=05%7C01%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7C08e01a94742c4d403c8f08db5474bb5a%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C638196632561337005%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=woLbFl0lu9LANhvWPxwpCFnu5o9975upFVmobl%2F9TfM%3D&reserved=0 André Magnan<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.uregina.ca%2Farts%2Fsociology-social-studies%2Ffaculty-staff%2Ffaculty%2Fmagnan-andre.html&data=05%7C01%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7C08e01a94742c4d403c8f08db5474bb5a%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C638196632561337005%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Yy1kqr6KOTPF76zsPHTgR46kNFGJDDPjMcYANRGYTac%3D&reserved=0> is a rural sociologist with a longstanding research interest in agricultural restructuring. Annette Aurélie Desmarais<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.landfoodsovereignty.ca%2F&data=05%7C01%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7C08e01a94742c4d403c8f08db5474bb5a%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C638196632561337005%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=PoFOIyudcpjwj1EaEn8KnYSvXK%2B%2BPV3VoPHZHlvrfY8%3D&reserved=0> is a geographer, leading scholar of food sovereignty, and former farmer. Some of their key publications on the theme are: [1]<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Finstitutionallandscapes.org%2Fcontribution%2F9-sorting-out-ownership-questions-digging-into-financialization-through-land-titles-data%2F%23_ednref1&data=05%7C01%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7C08e01a94742c4d403c8f08db5474bb5a%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C638196632561337005%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=maCiHqhqL95Nios2IxaJFRRSm%2FyRSuHQyvmaPuuuDyY%3D&reserved=0> Desmarais AA, Qualman D, Magnan A, et al. (2015) Land grabbing and land concentration: Mapping changing patterns of farmland ownership in three rural municipalities in Saskatchewan, Canada. Canadian Food Studies/La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation 2(1): 16-47. [2]<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Finstitutionallandscapes.org%2Fcontribution%2F9-sorting-out-ownership-questions-digging-into-financialization-through-land-titles-data%2F%23_ednref1&data=05%7C01%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7C08e01a94742c4d403c8f08db5474bb5a%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C638196632561337005%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=maCiHqhqL95Nios2IxaJFRRSm%2FyRSuHQyvmaPuuuDyY%3D&reserved=0> Desmarais AA, Qualman D, Magnan A, et al. (2017). Investor ownership or social investment? Changing farmland ownership in Saskatchewan, Canada. Agriculture and Human Values 34(1), 149-166. [3]<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Finstitutionallandscapes.org%2Fcontribution%2F9-sorting-out-ownership-questions-digging-into-financialization-through-land-titles-data%2F%23_ednref1&data=05%7C01%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7C08e01a94742c4d403c8f08db5474bb5a%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C638196632561337005%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=maCiHqhqL95Nios2IxaJFRRSm%2FyRSuHQyvmaPuuuDyY%3D&reserved=0> Ashwood L, Canfield J, Fairbairn M, et al. (2022) What owns the land: The corporate organization of farmland investment. The Journal of Peasant Studies 49(2): 233-262. [4]<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Finstitutionallandscapes.org%2Fcontribution%2F9-sorting-out-ownership-questions-digging-into-financialization-through-land-titles-data%2F%23_ednref1&data=05%7C01%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7C08e01a94742c4d403c8f08db5474bb5a%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C638196632561337005%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=maCiHqhqL95Nios2IxaJFRRSm%2FyRSuHQyvmaPuuuDyY%3D&reserved=0> Magnan A, Davidson M and Desmarais AA (2022) ‘They call it progress, but we don’t see it as progress’: farm consolidation and land concentration in Saskatchewan, Canada. Agriculture and Human Values 40(1): 277-290. 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