By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), one of Canada’s largest pension investment managers with CAN$230.5 billion (US$177.4 billion) of net AUM, announced its partnership with WSP, a leading global engineering and climate consultancy group, to carry out an in-depth climate analysis on its entire Global Natural Resources […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media In October 2021 the UK released a report called “Net Zero Strategy: Build Back Greener” outlining the government’s 10-part plan to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. “The science could not be clearer,” noted the report, “by the middle of this century the world has to reduce emissions to as […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The aptly named vertical farming company Oishii (meaning ‘delicious’ in Japanese) announced the opening of its largest and most technologically advanced farm to-date in Jersey City, New Jersey. The 74,000 square-foot facility will produce the company’s Omakase Berries, delivering on its mission to make its famed berries available prior […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Estonian startup GreenCrypto, in partnership with private investors and global family offices, has released a $600 million initial coin offering on four international exchanges with the goal of crowdfunding a more sustainable future through agriculture. AvocadoCoin is the first token of GreenCrypto’s GreenGold Project – a program designed to […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Cargill has partnered with vertical farming leader AeroFarms in a novel, multi-year research initiative that will use controlled environment agriculture (CEA) to improve cocoa production. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Newark, New Jersey, and as a Certified B Corporation since 2017, AeroFarms uses advanced technologies to take agricultural […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media It all began last year with a focus on the humble soybean. In June 2020 Danone North America and biosciences company Brightseed announced a new partnership to use AI to unlock so-far unknown health and nutrition benefits of plants. Reflective of a new era in precision nutrition, San Francisco-based […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Land-based aquaculture company AquaBounty Technologies announced it has chosen Pioneer, Ohio, as the location of its planned $200 million large-scale farm for the production of its proprietary genetically engineered salmon. “AquaBounty’s decision to choose Ohio for its first large-scale aquaculture facility is more evidence that Ohio is emerging from […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media BDO stands for 1,4-butanediol – a key raw material traditionally derived from butane used to manufacture plastics, elastic fibers such as spandex, polyurethane coatings, automotive parts such as bumpers, solvents for printer ink, artificial leathers, and films. Although necessary for the industrial production of a wide range of products, […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Just about a month after Winnipeg-based agricultural data management platform Farmers Edge launched a long-term partnership with Google Cloud, the company announced it has completed its IPO on the Toronto Stock Exchange raising C$125 million (about US$100 million) in the process. Launched in 2005, Farmers Edge has employed a […]
photo credit: AppHarvest By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Plans for this merger were originally announced in September 2020 as AppHarvest launched its 2.76 million-square-foot controlled environment agriculture facility in Eastern Kentucky – a region where unemployment exceeds the national average by 44 percent – and where AppHarvest is working to develop into a U.S. […]
