By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Launched in 2018 with a funding goal of $80 million, the India Progress Fund was the first country-specific fund for Incofin, which historically had earmarked allocation of between 15 and 20 percent from its prior funds for investment in the country. Incofin noted that as an impact investment destination, […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media “It’s a time of both peril and possibility,” said Jim Coulter, founding partner and executive chairman of TPG and managing partner of TPG Rise Climate. “Climate change is a societal risk but also a generational investment opportunity.” This opportunity has been seized by some of the world’s largest institutional […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Global fruit genetics and licensing company Sun World announced it has expanded its presence in Australia with the addition of licensed grape grower and marketer Fresh Produce Group of Australia (FPG). Through this agreement, FPG now joins Sun World’s licensees Costa Group, Perfection Fresh/Fruit Masters, and Fruitico. “It’s a […]
By Joseph Byrum History is filled with naysayers who doubted technology’s ability to lift society past hurdles once thought insurmountable. Thomas Malthus was the classic exponent of this philosophy, outlining in his great 1798 work how famine, disease, and war were the inevitable consequence of food production’s inability to keep pace with population growth […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Bonifiche Ferraresi (BF) has agreed to invest EUR 120 million (US$141 million) via one or more tranches in the Italian fund Agritech & Food, a closed-end alternative investment fund managed by Fondo Italiano d’Inoltre Sgr, controlled by the Cassa Depositi e Prestiti Group (which itself holds an 18.8 percent […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Some of the top investors in the agtech space have backed an oversubscribed $12 million Series A for ClimateAi – a pioneer in applying AI to climate risk modeling. Led by Radical Ventures, the round also included Finistere Ventures and Robert Downey Jr.’s FootPrint Coalition Ventures. Existing investors who […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media This week is big for timber deals in the Pacific Northwest. BTG Pactual Timber Investment Group (TIG) has acquired the management of two timber funds, (Fund III and Fund IV), with a co-investment interest in both vehicles from Olympic Resource Management (ORM), a subsidiary of Rayonier Inc., for an aggregate […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Global investment manager New Forests has acquired 156,000 acres of forest land in the Hilt-Siskiyou Forest – a mixed conifer forest along the border of California and Oregon – from Fruit Growers Supply Company (FGS), alongside an institutional investor client. FGS has a long history in connection with the […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media TELUS Agriculture and Rabobank have announced their acquisition of Conservis – a leading independent provider of digital farm management services that integrates disparate farm technologies into one streamlined interface for better farm management. Through Conservis, farmers and institutional farms are able to unify and organize all data generated from […]
photo credit: Nature’s Fynd By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media From its beginnings in volcanic springs in Yellowstone National Park to your plate – Nature’s Fynd announced it has raised a $350 million Series C to bring its fungi-derived protein called “Fy” to market. This round, which brings the company’s total funding to more than […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Tate & Lyle has announced its agreement to sell a majority stake in its Primary Products division – a production unit that makes corn-based sweeteners, industrial starches, and acidulants in North America and Brazil – to KPS Capital Partners. The deal will result in two new standalone businesses – […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media Emerging from a global pandemic, it was our first in-person conference in more than a year, and by all accounts – Global AgInvesting On The Green 2021 – was a successful event. Hundreds gathered at a new venue – Sleepy Hollow Country Club, just one hour north of […]
