By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Bits x Bites, China’s first agrifood tech-focused VC fund, has announced the final close of its second fund, oversubscribed at $100 million. 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 […]
By Himanshu Gupta, CEO of ClimateAi Climate change is what we call the new “über-variable” that will shape investors’ risks and returns more than any other variable over the coming years and decades. Currently, traditional portfolio investing relies on making decisions that balance risk and reliability — at the right time. However, climate change urgently […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Australian global forestry investment manager New Forests has partnered with CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution; Finnfund, the Finnish Fund for Industrial Cooperation; and Norfund, the investment fund of the Norwegian government for developing nations, to raise $500 million over the next three to five years to scale and […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Rural Funds Management (RFM), manager for the ASX-listed Rural Funds Group (RFF), an owner of a diversified portfolio of high-quality Australian agricultural assets, has been on a tear, rapidly acquiring multiple assets spanning cattle, cropping, and macadamia production. Activity such as this is good to see after a challenging […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Sustainable aquaculture and related tech investor Aqua-Spark has made its first investment in a public company, investing €10 million (US$11.5 million) in exchange for a significant stake in Hofseth Biocare ASA (HBC), a Norwegian biotech company developing high-value ingredients and finished products for the consumer health market. HBC’s revolutionary […]
Photo credit: Oxley Capital Partners By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media It was on August 23 that GAI News shared that Ben Craw, managing director of Sydney-based Oxley Capital Partners, had been tasked by a European family office with the divestment of the ‘THF Portfolio’ – a 21,900-hectare (54,117-acre) beef cattle and irrigated fodder aggregation […]
Photo credit: IGS By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Scottish agribusiness Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS) announced the close of its Series B funding round, oversubscribed at £42.2 million (US$57.2 million). Although the round was supported by a gathering of new investors, for lead investor COFRA AG of Zug, Switzerland, this commitment marked its first investment […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media ArborGen, one of the world’s largest suppliers of eucalyptus and loblolly pine seedlings, has agreed to sell ArborGen ANZ, its Australian and New Zealand business unit, to Geyser Limited Partnership, a consortium of New Zealand investors led by Hugh Fletcher and predominantly consisting of charitable trusts and private families, […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media It may be a novel idea to some, but scientists (and farmers alike) have been listening and talking to plants for decades now, trying to decipher the best way to keep them healthy and growing. And now, a select group of 60 farmers has taken the plunge to […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Co-founded by company CEO Fengru Lin and Chief Strategist Max Rye, Singapore-based TurtleTree Labs is one of the world’s first startups to apply the latest cutting-edge advancements in biotechnology to create real milk from cells. Highly acknowledged for its novel use of cell biology technology, TurtleTree announced it has […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Farmland LP is the largest asset manager focused on converting conventional farmland to sustainable organic production in the U.S. – a strategy in which investors are certainly demonstrating their confidence. And the potential is huge – while speaking at Global AgInvesting On The Green 2021 Craig Wichner, CEO, Farmland LP said, that […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Chinese-owned Van Dairy has sold 6,000 hectares of its Woolnorth property in Tasmania to Australia’s TRT Pastoral Group for A$120 million (US$89.5 million), marking the first time the property has reverted back to Australian ownership in nearly 200 years. TRT Pastoral is a family-owned and operated agricultural company in […]
