New 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
Read moreFA Bio Closes on £5.3M to Discover Microbes for Game-Changing Bioproducts
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media British biotech company FA Bio announced it has closed on £5.3 million (US$6.68 million) to continue its work discovering superior microbes for bioproducts that will improve soil health, increase crop yields, protect biodiversity, and replace chemical inputs to reduce greenhouse gas emissio
Read moreBlue Road-Backed NatureSweet Expands Portfolio With New Growing Location in Arizona
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media NatureSweet, the largest vertically integrated agricultural company in North America, announced the expansion of its portfolio with a new greenhouse facility that has begun planting and growing produce in Bonita, Arizona. It was only five months ago that Blue Road Capital, an indep
Read moreFOTONIQ Closes on Investment Round to Make Greenhouses More Efficient
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media As arable land suitable for agricultural production is in finite supply, FOTONIQ views greenhouses as the future of agriculture. And as high-tech greenhouse production continues to gain ground, the company sees the need for greater sustainability and efficiency to help growers increase produ
Read moreSyngenta Group Ventures Leads $38M Series D to Improve Global Fresh Produce Supply Chain
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Syngenta Group Ventures has led a $38 million Series D for ProducePay, recognized as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies and the World Economic Forum’s newest Unicorn Innovators for its work transforming and strengthening fresh produce supply chains. Joining Syngenta Gro
Read moreTemasek, Norinchukin Bank Back Seviora Holdings’ T3F Strategy
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Let’s dig into this one. Temasek has partnered with Singapore-based investment manager Seviora Capital, part of Seviora Group, an independent asset management group with $52 billion in AUM, that itself is wholly owned by Temasek. Through this partnership they will jointly invest i
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