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By Lynda Kiernan-Stone and Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media Timberland is rapidly gaining credibility as a prime alternative investment for gaining environmental, social, and governance (ESG) benefits for portfolios. It also offers a distinct level of portfolio diversification that generates low-volatility, risk-adjusted  returns compared to most other asset types. The NCREIF Timberland Property Index […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Recent activity by the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) reflects how the bank continues to break ground as an investor. Within the span of two weeks in September, DBJ began fostering a shift in Japan’s investment landscape through its commitment to the TIR Europe Forestry Fund II, and became […]

By Greg Mellinger, CEO, HighQuest Partners, LLC Twenty-twenty has seen expanded offerings from agricultural investing powerhouses with assets over $1 billion AUM, smaller funds, and new entrants. More than 100 follow-on and newly-formed farmland, infrastructure, PE/VC, credit, REIT, commodity, and natural capital funds were introduced and/or closed this year as reported in GAI News. Last […]

By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, GAI media San Diego-based acceleration fund Radicle Growth made its maiden investment just two years ago in Full Harvest, a San Francisco-based agtech platform designed to mitigate food waste at the farm level. Since that time, the company has committed funding to 15 investments in nine companies in the food and […]

By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, GAI Media Tai Lin is a managing director at Proterra Investment Partners, the $2.4 billion private equity firm that was spun off from Cargill’s Black River Asset Management in 2016. Proterra – which has offices in Minneapolis, Shanghai, Singapore, Mumbai, Sydney, Sao Paulo, and London – focuses primarily on investments in […]

By Roberto Vitón, Managing Director – Valoral Advisors The global food and agriculture sector starts the new year on a high note as investors look to deploy more capital into the many themes available in the sector. Today, there are over 440 investment funds specialized in this sector, with assets under management over US$73 billion […]