By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media In its maiden engagement with an institutional timberland investment manager, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a World Bank Group division, has committed $50 million to jumpstart BTG Pactual’s Timberland Investment Group (TIG) Latin American reforestation strategy. The announcement was made at a signing ceremony in São Paulo, Brazil, where […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Australia-based Atlantic salmon producer Huon Aquaculture, which is 100 percent backed by Brazilian food giant JBS, has committed to invest A$110 million (US$71.8 million) to bolster land-based salmon production at its Whale Point site in southern Tasmania. Huon, Australia’s No. 2 salmon producer and the pioneer of aquaculture and […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Farmland LP, a California-based investment firm dedicated to transforming conventional farmland into sustainable organic farms, has announced the acquisition of three properties in Northern California’s Sacramento Delta across 2,625 acres for a combined price tag of $35.6 million. The farms, all three of which are currently planted with almonds, […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Manna Tree Partners, a global private equity firm based in Vail, Colorado, and focused on nutrition, has taken a controlling interest in Verde Farms, a Woburn, Massachusetts, company that produces 100 percent grass-fed and pasture-raised beef. As a follow on to a minority $15 million stake taken in 2020, […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Consolidation is afoot in Australia’s water entitlement market. In its second acquisition in a matter of weeks, ASX-listed Regal Partners has announced it will take a 40 percent stake in Argyle Group, which invests in a diverse portfolio of water entitlements, combining two of the country’s biggest asset managers […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media LAWD, a national Australian real estate firm that specializes in the agriculture industry, is overseeing the sale of Moorabinda, one translation of which is “foot of the hill” and which it describes as the “jewel in the crown of Queensland’s finest beef production region”. The property, which is considered […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Building on a trend set in motion by the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank (SMTB) has committed to invest in Laguna Bay Fund 2, overseen by Brisbane, Australia-based Laguna Bay Group. Tokyo’s SMTB has signed on as an impact equity investor as part of a […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media In what Bonifiche Ferraresi (BF) has dubbed “the most important Italian agro-industrial project on the Southern shore of the Mediterranean,” the nation of Algeria and BF have partnered for a $455 million agriculture initiative. The deal, which is designed to strengthen food security in the North African country through […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Cal-Maine Foods, the largest producer and distributor of fresh shell eggs in the U.S., is continuing to expand its national footprint with the acquisition of ISE America for approximately $110 million in cash. Eggs are one of the most commonly used animal proteins. Global egg production has almost doubled […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media IDeA Agro, managed by DeA Capital Alternative Funds SGR and the first private equity fund in Italy to focus on agribusiness and farmland, has completed its investment cycle with its tenth investment – the acquisition of a majority stake in S.P.O. Zentrum, the Sicily-based leading platform in Italy, for […]
