By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media For all the advances and penetration of tech in agriculture and its supply chains, the $600 billion-plus dairy industry remains largely in the wings – strange given the rapidly perishable nature of milk. However, it is this exact finite delivery window and constantly shifting consumer preferences that make the […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The Green Coffee Company (GCC), a Legacy Group portfolio company, announced its acquisition of 1,389 acres of coffee farmland in Colombia to become the largest coffee producer in the country. Coffee cultivation began in Colombia in the mid-1830s, becoming its main export crop throughout the 20th century. Today, the […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Backed by long-term institutional capital, New York-based asset manager AMERRA Capital Management has invested more than $5.7 billion since its inception in 2009, and currently has more than US$1.4 billion in AUM concentrated in upstream and midstream food and agri businesses in Europe and the Americas. It was in […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), one of Canada’s largest pension investment managers with CAN$230.5 billion (US$177.4 billion) of net AUM, announced its partnership with WSP, a leading global engineering and climate consultancy group, to carry out an in-depth climate analysis on its entire Global Natural Resources […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Transformation is typically not easy. If done responsibly, it can be demanding in both time and capital. But once accomplished, it can also be highly rewarding on a number of fronts – return on investment, socially, ecologically, and environmentally, for example. Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM), the asset management […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Unconventional Ag Media FFM is an organic pioneer and a global commodity trading house with over 30 years of experience in organic, non-GMO, and specialty commodities. FFM conducts business with numerous farmers around the world and has its own unique vertically integrated, traceable, supply chain. An in-house logistics department manages all […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Based in the UK, pioneering ag-biotech company Tropic Biosciences (Tropic) leverages advanced plant breeding techniques with gene editing technologies to develop high-performing, commercial crops suited for cultivation in tropical regions. Under its mission of harnessing cutting-edge technologies (such as its proprietary GEiGS platform) where it is needed most, Tropic […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Tyson Foods and Saudi Arabia’s Tanmiah Food Co.(Tanmiah) have announced a deal that will see the Arkansas-based food giant expand its presence in the Middle East protein space. Tanmiah’s history goes back to 1962. As part of the Al-Dabbagh Holding Group, the company is one of the leading suppliers […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media DSM Venturing, the corporate venture arm of Royal DSM, has led a $14.5 million Series A funding round for Phytolon, a Trendlines portfolio company developing fermentation-based natural food colors. Additional participants in the round included Cibus Fund, The Trendlines Agrifood Fund, and Ginkgo Bioworks, which participated via an in-kind […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Instar Asset Management, a private equity firm focused on North American middle-market infrastructure and alternative real asset categories, partnered with company management to acquire a majority stake in Canada’s Greenwood Mushrooms from Novocap for an undisclosed amount. Novocap initially invested in the company in May 2016. Over the course […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Superior Pine Products, a multi-generational, family-owned business that owns and operates forestland and agricultural businesses across Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina, announced it has expanded its footprint, acquiring more than 58,000 acres of high-quality timberland near El Dorado, Arkansas, and Monroe, Louisiana. The property, known as the “Castle Timberland […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media In October 2021 the UK released a report called “Net Zero Strategy: Build Back Greener” outlining the government’s 10-part plan to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. “The science could not be clearer,” noted the report, “by the middle of this century the world has to reduce emissions to as […]
