By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Regenerative agriculture has become a topic du jour of late, capturing headlines and creating buzz around industry circles — understandably so. With the global population poised to increase by 2 billion people in the coming decades, food security is of the utmost importance. When it comes to food production […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media With 2025 barreling around the corner, the ag industry is preparing to continue the discussion on several key themes that are shaping the future of the industry. Many influencers from the sector will be gathering at GAI New York in the spring (April 22-24). In the first of a […]
photo credit- Thai Union By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Major seafood player Thai Union Group PCL has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Thailand’s V Foods to work together to expand their plant-based food businesses. The pair also intend to co-develop new products and expand their reach into both domestic and international markets. […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, GAI Media With the goal of providing safe, abundant, and affordable food, California-based startup Centaur Analytics seeks to end post-harvest crop losses, reclaiming the estimated $1 trillion of crop value wasted each year to improper storage and spoilage to “create” more food for the ever-increasing world population. According to co-founder, president, […]
A new breed of alternative investor is emerging in Japan with an eye on yield, an appetite for long horizons, and an expectation of a sound ESG strategy. Investments in agriculture epitomize opportunities featuring these attributes. In April of this year Nippon Life Insurance Company set precedent by committing AUD 119 million to Hancock Natural […]
Asia’s population, wealth, GDP, and food/protein consumption growth continue. While Intra-Asian/ASEAN agri-food-agtech deals are well understood, Asian investor allocations into the Americas & Europe are often under the radar. I expect this to change rapidly, and for many more Asian industry and financial investors to allocate significant sums outside of Asia via funds, M&A, and […]
Consumer-retail focused growth equity firm Alliance Consumer Growth (ACG) announced the close of its fourth fund (ACG IV) oversubscribed at its hard cap of $350 million. Fund IV’s investors are largely returning limited partners in ACG, subscribing to the same investment strategy of ACG’s prior three funds which identify early opportunities to back rapidly-growing, “rising […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall After more than a decade in executive positions at global investment banks – Goldman Sachs, Lehman, Nomura Securities, and Standard Chartered Bank – and successfully founding fintech and mobile technology startups, David Davies was working on creating cryptoledger communication protocol for financial data. Over the course of a weekend in April 2016 an idea was borne […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, GAI News In a just-published report from HighQuest Consulting – The Role of Nontraditional Investors in the U.S. Farmland Market – author Ben Palen details the rise in interest in the farmland sector by the nontraditional investor (NTI). From merely a dabble 10 years ago, NTIs, which include pension funds, asset managers, family […]
UNDERSTANDING FARMLAND INVESTMENT By Detlef Schoen, Head of Real Assets, Insight Investment INSIGHT FARMLAND PROFILE Over many years Insight Farmland has built corporate farming expertise and strong institutional bridgeheads in key global agricultural geographies, with tried and tested people, processes and structures. As part of Insight Investment, a leading global asset manager, Insight Farmland […]
