By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media China has rapidly undergone a significant shift from being largely rural and agrarian to a more urban and market-engaged society. This overarching evolution has brought food production away from fragmented smallholders into the reality of commercially-scaled industrial agricultural production and beyond, to tech-driven food and ag innovations that have […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Constellation has been realigning for a few years now. In 2018, the group made a surprising announcement that it was investing a further $4 billion in publicly traded Canadian marijuana grower Canopy Growth. In 2019, the group sold approximately 30 wine brands and related facilities located in California, New […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media “Without traders, global food security would not exist…,” said Soren Schroder, former CEO Bunge Ltd. “Trading companies are crucial in navigating supply and demand imbalances, as they swiftly move commodities around the world from surplus to deficit regions.” The landscape through which global traders navigate is fraught with challenges. […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Boston-based GreenLight Biosciences develops sustainable solutions for some of the world’s most challenging issues through RNA-driven products for agriculture and life sciences applications. RNA is the oldest molecule on the planet that controls the biological processes of all living things. And while RNA-based products in relation to plant and […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Los Angeles-based, food-focused private equity investor Butterfly announced the closing of its second fund with capital commitments of $1 billion. Nearly double the size of its predecessor, the closing of this fund brings Butterfly’s total AUM, including its first fund and co-investments, to almost $4 billion. In play since […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media With the completion of its recent Series A-1, Singapore-based agrifood tech startup ProfilePrint has added Cargill as a backer, bringing the total to five of the world’s largest food ingredient conglomerates, representing more than 50 percent of the global food trade, as strategic shareholders. To date, existing shareholders in […]
By Ben Palen, Ag Management Partners At this time each year (with rare exceptions), I make the trek to my family’s cemetery, located in a no-stop-light town deep in the heart of Kansas. Three generations have their final resting place there, and all of them share an agrarian heritage. It is about a 1,000 mile round […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Japanese food tech company Spread is a true vertical farming veteran. Based in Kyoto, Spread has been in operation since 2007, gaining expertise over the course of 15 years, beginning production at its Kameoka Plant, and then through its next-generation automated vertical farm – Techno Farm Keihanna. Today, Spread […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Headquartered in the Central Valley of California, Frutura is a relatively new fruit sales and marketing network founded in 2021 and headed by industry veteran and CEO David Krause, that is rapidly growing to become a global year-round fruit supplier. It began with the acquisition in June 2021 of […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media More than 250 global companies have made efforts over the past decade to clean up their supply chains and to mitigate the harmful effects of palm oil production, but these measures have been met with limited success, with only 20 percent of the palm oil supply currently certified as […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Cover crops have generally been background noise in agricultural production. However, they have gained prominence as a low-cost, key part of regenerative farming methods, and a tool for farmers to use in combating climate change. CoverCress is planted at corn harvest in the fall, and is harvested just before […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Omnivore, an agritech-focused venture capital investor in India, has executed the largest exit in the country’s domestic sector through the sale of its stake in Eruvaka, a developer of cloud-based aquaculture management solutions, including real-time monitoring and smart feeders, to global animal nutrition and aquaculture leader Nutreco. Omnivore first […]
