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 dismiss until […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Australia’s AAM Investment Group (AAMIG) launched its fourth fund, the AAM Diversified Agriculture Fund (ADAF), at the end of 2019 with an initial goal of raising A$60 million. After the turn of that year, AAMIG stated it intended to undertake further fundraising to support the acquisition of complementary premium […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Co-founded by Francisco Roque de Pinho and Joaquín Labella in 2016 in Uruguay – an unassuming country with vast unexplored agricultural potential wedged between Argentina and Brazil – TLG Management Partners works to implement improvements on, and then manage, underperforming farmland properties in South America. The timing of the […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media In 2020, His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales, commented, “Building a sustainable future is, in fact, the growth story of our time…” As part of this narrative, nature-based investing is still finding its feet, but growing awareness of the increasing need is being demonstrated by the ever-greater capital […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Gresham House manages approximately 136,000 hectares of forest land worth more than GBP1.9 billion (US$2.5 billion), harvesting in the neighborhood of 10 percent of the UK’s annual softwood production. The firm is also highly experienced in the creation of new woodland, acquiring 10,000 hectares of unplanted land since 2015, […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media In April 2021, the Netherlands-based Kempen Capital Management (Kempen) announced the launch of the SDG Farmland Fund – a new investment solution to offer institutional investors global access to farmland as an asset class while also contributing to the achievement of UN Sustainability Development Goals 2 (zero hunger), 6 […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Australia’s Gunn Agri Partners, an agricultural asset management company operated by co-founders Bill Gunn, Alan Hoppe, Daniel Hough, and Bradley Wheaton, announced the final close of the Gunn Agri Cattle Fund in April 2018. And as the fund goes from strength-to-strength, Gunn Agri has released the fund’s unaudited results […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Launched in 2018 with a funding goal of $80 million, the India Progress Fund was the first country-specific fund for Incofin, which historically had earmarked allocation of between 15 and 20 percent from its prior funds for investment in the country. Incofin noted that as an impact investment destination, […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media A new agricultural investment company has launched in Australia with its eye set toward eventually building a $1 billion portfolio of cattle properties by 2027 that will play a critical role in carbon restoration and addressing climate change. Launched by Packhorse, Packhorse Pastoral Company Australia (PPCA) is being chaired […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Kempen Capital Management, via its Fiduciary Management and Institutional Solutions team and the investment specialists of the Private Markets team, has partnered with Stichting Pensioenfonds PostNL to launch the SDG Farmland Fund – a new investment solution to offer institutional investors global access to farmland as an asset class […]
