photo credit: Elders By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media goFARM has appointed Elders to market Yarrabee Park – giving bidders a rare opportunity to acquire one of the largest contiguous broadacre cropping assets in Eastern Australia. Founded in 2013, goFARM is one of the largest agricultural investors and managers in Australia, with about A$1 billion […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) continues to break ground as an investor, becoming the first in Japan to agree to invest in a food-focused private equity fund by backing a fund managed by Proterra Investment Advisors (Proterra Asia). Spun off from Cargill’s Black River Asset Management in 2016, […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Timberland is rapidly gaining credibility as a prime alternative investment for gaining environmental, social, and governance (ESG) benefits for portfolios. As such, demand for these kinds of sustainable alternatives continues to strengthen among the pension and institutional investor space as part of their broader commitments to climate change mitigation […]
photo credit: Ripple By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Ripple Foods, a producer of plant-based dairy alternative beverages and foods made from pea protein, has closed on a $60 million Series E led by Rage Capital, Ajax Strategies, and S2G Ventures. Additional investors who joined the round were OurCrowd, GV, Prelude Ventures, Euclidian, Fall Line […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The U.S. Buyout team of private equity investor Ardian has acquired a majority stake in Florida Food Products (FFP) from MidOcean Partners, setting the enterprise value of FFP in excess of $1 billion. “Ardian’s investment in FFP is a testament to the platform we have built with our talented […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Financial investors in Japan admittedly don’t have much exposure to forestry investments. However, the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) is looking to foster a shift, beginning with its investment in the TIR Europe Forestry Fund II. With an executive leadership team averaging more than 25 years of experience and […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media With uses that span not only the food sector, but also the health and beauty and pharmaceutical industries as well, the global spice market is a multibillion dollar industry. In 2019 the global spice market was valued at $13.77 billion, according to grandviewresearch.com, which estimates that this value will […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Canadian institutional investor AIMCo and global forestry investment manager New Forests have a history of partnering on sustainable forestry and carbon market investments in Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S. that reaches back for more than 10 years. Their latest co-investment, however, is of a different stripe. Following a […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Hancock Natural Resource Group (HNRG), a company of Manulife Investment Management, has made its second Brazilian timberland deal for the year so far (third for its timberland and agriculture team in South America), stating that the expansion of its timberland portfolio in Brazil is a strategic priority, and a […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Not even ten days before writing this, Gladstone Land announced it had closed on a $42.3 million deal for farmland, blueberry plantings, and improvements situated in Kern County, California, and Yamhill County, Oregon. Within a week’s time following this deal, the company announced another two deals with a combined […]
