By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Germany-based pure-play impact investor Blue Horizon has made a Seed investment in Core Biogenesis, a French startup using plants as biofactories to produce growth factors for cell therapy and cultivated meat applications. It was little more than a year ago, in January 2021, that Blue Horizon announced it had […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Abu Dhabi’s largest holding company ADQ has acquired a significant stake in Unifrutti Group (Unifrutti), one of the world’s leading producers and distributors of fresh produce. Unifrutti holds more than 14,000 hectares of farmland on four continents, producing more than 100 varieties of fresh produce including apples, bananas, cherries, […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Estimates are that as much as a third of all arable land on Earth is used to make animal feed. This has traditionally been in the form of unsustainable soy and other crops that are largely responsible for deforestation at their point of production, and for significant carbon emissions […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Power Sustainable is a global, multi-platform alternative asset manager with offices in Canada, China, and the U.S. investing in companies working toward decarbonization, social progress, quality growth, and ultimately the delivery of returns. With CAD$4.2 billion (US$3.34 billion) in AUM, Power Sustainable has been deploying patient capital in a […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Oxley Capital Partners, led by managing director Ben Craw together with JLL’s directors of agribusiness Clayton Smith, Chris Holgar, and Geoff Warriner, have been appointed to list for sale on behalf of the Reardon family, Worral Creek Aggregation, one of the largest irrigated cotton enterprises in Australia. Worral Creek […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media In December 2021, Paine Schwartz Food Chain Fund V (Fund V), together with its affiliate investors Mitsui and Rabo Investments, agreed to acquire a 50 percent stake in Hendrix Genetics, giving NPM Capital, which had been an investor in Hendrix since 2015, an exit opportunity. Hendrix Genetics has now […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media India-based Omnivore Partners is launching a third fund with a target of $130 million to back tech startups advancing agriculture, food, and the rural economy, including those with a mission to take action to mitigate climate change or to drive resilience and adaptation in the face of climate change. […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Warakirri Asset Management (Warakirri), a multi-boutique management firm that is one of the largest ag investment managers and operators in Australia, announced two foundational investments for its Warakirri Farmland Fund that align with a stone fruit category strategy with fresh fruit market leader and fund tenant partner, W.F. Montague […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media Elders Real Estate of Australia has launched a quarterly update – Elders Rural Property Update – that provides quarterly data and analysis on the value and volume of rural property at national, state, and regional levels. Highlights of the update, which covers Q4 of 2021, include increases in […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media GAI News has been writing about MycoTechnology since its $9.2 million Series A in 2015 led by S2G Ventures with participation from Middleland Capital and Seventure Partners. Since that time, the company has gone on to greatly expand its investor base without losing valuation. The company’s latest news is […]
By Weiyi Zhang, Ph.D., Senior Agricultural Economist, Manulife Investment Management A blast from the past—or is it? — Inflationary pressures are expected to weigh on farmers’ financial profitability, but commodity prices remain at historically high levels. — Farmland can demonstrate stable and resilient return performance through periods of differing economic cycles. — The changing interest-rate […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Continental Grain’s venture arm Conti Ventures has led a $33 million Series B for protein design company Arzeda. Others who participated in the round include Lewis & Clark Agrifood, Bunge Ventures, and Circulate Capital, among others. Series A investors OS Fund, Casdin Capital, UMI, and Bioeconomy Capital also returned […]
