Two NT Cattle Stations with Approved Carbon Projects for Sale
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The sale of Maryfield Station and Limbunya Station - two institutional scale, Northern Territory cattle operations - is being managed by LAWD with expectations of drawing in buyers seeking out assets able to generate significant carbon credits. Owned by Sam Mitchell from Sydney-base
Read moreOishii to Drive Growth of Vertically Farmed Strawberries With $134M Series B
Photo credit: Oishii By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The aptly named vertical farming leader Oishii (meaning "delicious" in Japanese) announced the successful closing of a $134 million Series B led by Japanese telecommunications company NTT, bringing total funding to-date to $189 million. "While many in the industry
Read moreHippo Harvest Secures $21M Series B for First-of-Its-Kind Modular Greenhouse Design
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Controlled environment agriculture (CEA) startup Hippo Harvest announced it has secured $21 million in Series B funding led by Standard Investments and including Congruent Ventures, Amazon's Climate Pledge Fund, Hawthorne Food Ventures, and Energy Impact Partners to advance its first-of-its-
Read moreSimple Planet Closes on Oversubscribed $6M Pre-Series A Funding
Photo credit: Simple Planet By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Biotech startup Simple Planet has closed on an oversubscribed $6 million pre-Series A round to fund its development of functional future food ingredients through its cell culture platform. Global protein consumption is expected to climb at a compounded
Read moreConsortium Including Driscoll’s Completes Takeover of Costa Group
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Driscoll’s, a global market leader of fresh blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries, announced as a critical strategic partner in the deal, that the purchase of Costa Group - Australia’s leading grower, packer, and marketer of fresh fruit and vegetables - has been comple
Read moreNew Forests Announces First Investment for TAFF2
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Global investment manager of nature-based real asset and natural capital strategies New Forests announced that the first investment made through its Tropical Asia Forest Fund 2 (TAFF2) is in a project to conserve and restore the Kuan Kreng Landscape (KKL) in Thailand - the country’s second
Read moreCargill Joins Growth Funding Round for ENOUGH, Agrees to Use and Market its Mycoprotein
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Cargill is expanding its partnership with food tech company ENOUGH by joining its most recent growth funding round, and by signing a commercial agreement to use and market ABUNDA, ENOUGH’s signature sustainable and vegan protein created by fermenting fungi fed by renewable feedstocks. F
Read moreWeedOUT Raises $8.1M Series A to Combat Weed Resistance
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media WeedOUT’s approach is inspired by sterility techniques successfully used since the 1940s for controlling pest populations like flies and mosquitos. Since the inception of these sterility techniques 80 years ago, insect control using these methods has not encountered any issues of resistanc
Read moreClean Growth Fund Backs HutanBio to Advance Algae-Based Biofuel
photo credit: HutanBio By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded by scientists from Cambridge University and in Malaysia, biotech company HutanBio has a mission to disrupt the biofuels industry through the commercialization of HBx, its carbon-negative biofuel designed to serve the transition to net zero in the marine and
Read moreRegenerate Asset Management Completes First Regen Ag Investment
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Climate impact investment manager Regenerate Asset Management announced the finalization of its inaugural investment through its first-of-its-kind Regenerate European Sustainable Agriculture Fund (RESA Fund). Reinforcing its core mission to drive impactful and immediate environmenta
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