By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media The Mastercard Foundation is stepping up its commitment to smallholder farmers across sub-Saharan Africa. Through a fund managed by the Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA), the Foundation has committed $10 million to the Social Enterprise Fund for Agriculture in Africa (SEFAA), a private equity impact vehicle overseen by Lagos, […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Zeist, Netherlands-based Achmea Investment Management, in partnership with Neuberger Berman Private Markets, has launched a private equity impact fund, with a strategy centered on advancing sustainable agriculture and food systems. With a target size of €250 million (US$275 million), the fund will invest in companies that contribute positively to […]
One of the single-biggest, multi-generational landholdings in the U.S. is changing hands. The family behind D.R. Horton, the Arlington, Texas-based homebuilding giant, has sold their sprawling Great Western Ranch in western New Mexico, according to Hall and Hall, which marketed the property. While the name of the buyer has not been disclosed, the property was […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Lyme Timber Company, a Hanover, New Hampshire-based timber manager, has increased its exposure to natural capital in the Appalachian corridor. One of Lyme Timber’s affiliates has teamed up with the Kestrel Land Trust and The Trustees of Reservations to purchase 2,864 acres of timberland in western Massachusetts from family-owned […]
By: Artem Milinchuk, Founder & Head of Strategy at FarmTogether Over the past month, several high-profile moves in the farmland investment space, alongside a potential shift in U.S. retirement policy, have signaled that the asset class is entering a new phase. Traditionally the domain of institutional investors such as pension funds and endowments, farmland is […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media In a bustling Australian cattle industry marked by consolidation and a push toward sustainability, one fund manager is exerting its influence in the premium protein supply chain. New Forests, a Mitsui- and Nomura-backed manager specializing in nature-based real assets and natural capital strategies, is acquiring a 50 percent stake […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Candy giant Mars, Inc., a leader in the peanut industry, has launched the Mars Protect the Peanut Plan, a $5 million, five-year initiative to secure the global peanut supply through agri-science and sustainable farming. With an early focus on Latin America, and building on a decade-long, $10 million investment […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media In a landmark move for Latin American timberland, BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (TIG), a powerhouse in timberland investing, and Canada’s British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) have launched a massive $700 million platform focused on Southern Brazil. The project covers roughly 100,000 hectares (247,105 acres) of sustainably managed […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Denver, Colorado-based venture investor Trailhead Capital has announced its latest capital deployment, marking the swansong for Fund I as the firm gears up for its next vehicle. Trailhead has chosen to back TerraBlaster, an agtech company pioneering novel soil diagnostics, capping off an oversubscribed $4 million pre-seed round that […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Indoor farming has the potential to transform agriculture with more produce, shorter supply chains and smaller environmental footprints. But while the technology has advanced, the economics have been far more challenging. After years of fundraising, the vertical farming sector seemingly hit a wall as venture dollars dried up and […]
