Professional development encompasses all types of facilitated learning opportunities including credentials such as academic degrees to formal coursework, conferences and informal learning opportunities situated in practice. It has been described as intensive and collaborative, ideally incorporating an evaluative stage.
Who Owns It? Canadian investors own the most reported foreign held agricultural and non-agricultural land, with 28 percent, or 7,250,834 acres. Foreign persons from the Netherlands own 19 percent, Germany owns 7, the United Kingdom owns 6 and Portugal owns 5.
Canada's land tenure arrangements are similar to two of the seven other countries used as comparisons with 61% to 66% of land area owned (Table 4). However, at the two extremes, 93.8% of farmland is owned in Brazil and 36.3 % in France.