New Forests Launches A$600M Australia New Zealand Landscapes and Forestry Fund
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media New Forests, a global investment manager of nature-based real asset and natural capital strategies, announced the launch of its new Australia New Zealand Landscapes and Forestry fund (ANZLAFF) with the goal of raising A$600 million (US$404.73 million) over the next two-to-three years. He
Read moreSilverstrand Invests Another €15M in Aqua-Spark, Bringing Total to €25M
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded in 2018, Silverstrand Capital is a single family office based in Singapore with an impact mandate focused on addressing the biodiversity crisis through systemic investment solutions that advance regenerative food systems and accelerate wide scale restoration and conservation of natura
Read moreProterra Asia Closes Third Food Fund at More Than $200M
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Spun off from Cargill’s Black River Asset Management in 2016, Proterra Investment Partners has offices in Minneapolis, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Sao Paulo, and London with $3.6 billion in food and ag AUM. Working out of the Shanghai and Singapore office, Tai Lin, managing director of sub
Read moreIsara Launches £300M Maiden Fund to Transform Food Ecosystems in UK, Ireland, and Western Europe
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The UK has a new specialist investment manager in Isara, which has just announced the launch of its maiden fund - a £300 million (US$354.7 million) investment vehicle geared to improve the efficiency, quality, and sustainability of food supply systems across the UK, Ireland, and Western Euro
Read moreEssex Pension Fund Expands in Timberland with £100M Anchor Commitment to Stafford Carbon Offset Opportunity Fund
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media In a move to expand its exposure to global timberland and accelerate its transition toward a goal of Net Zero, the UK’s Essex Pension Fund has made a £100 million (US$116.6 million) anchor commitment to Stafford Capital Partners’ Stafford Carbon Offset Opportunity Fund. Founded in 2
Read moreFollowing Tragic Loss, Packhorse Pastoral Listing Three Regenerative Cattle Stations
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Packhorse Pastoral Company Australia (PPCA) launched in Australia last year with its eye set on building a $1 billion portfolio of regenerative cattle properties by 2027 that would play a critical role in carbon sequestration and addressing climate change. The plan called for properties
Read moreLandFund Partners First Investment Fund to Receive Carbon Credits
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media It has been widely accepted that farming, by its very nature, is an extractive industry. But the realities of water pollution, soil degradation, erosion, and loss of fertility are creeping and cumulative - embodied more as undercurrents to the activity of farming, making the effects easier to
Read moreNew Forests and Partners Seed African Forestry Impact Platform with $200M, Make First Acquisition
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Australian global forestry and ag investment manager New Forests and its partners - British International Investment (BII), Norfund, and Finnfund - have agreed to launch a dedicated African fund - the African Forestry Impact Platform (AFIP) with subscription agreement commitments of $200 mill
Read moreCultiv8, Fidante Launch AUD$100M Agri-Food Tech Fund
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Cultiv8 Funds Management (Cultiv8) has partnered with global investment manager Findante for the launch of the Cutliv8 Agriculture and Food Technology Fund. With a target size in place of $100 million, the fund is launching with a cornerstone investment from Fidante parent company Challe
Read moreGreenPoint Partners Establishes Farming Platform Wyuna Regenerative Agriculture
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Formed in partnership with Wyuna's co-founder and CEO Steve Green, alternative investment firm GreenPoint Partners announced the establishment of Wyuna Regenerative Agriculture (Wyuna), an Australian regenerative farming platform looking to build a portfolio of 500,000 acres of grazing assets
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