By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Founded in Nairobi, Kenya, and with offices in both Nairobi and New York, Gro Intelligence announced it has raised $85 million through a Series B co-led by Intel Capital, Africa Internet Ventures (a strategic partnership between TPG Growth and EchoVC), and the family offices of Ronald Lauder and Eric […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media ABC World Asia, a private equity fund with a dedicated focus on evidence-based impact investing in Asia launched by Temasek in May 2019, has led a $20 million Series C for global AI and data-driven agtech company CropIn. The round, which brings total funding for the company to-date to […]
By Adam Bergman, Managing Director, EcoTech Capital The agtech & food tech sector started out with a lot of optimism in 2020, coming off a record fundraising year in 2019. The sector seemed poised for a strong performance as a growing number of companies were beginning to generate commercial revenue and to expand their businesses. Much […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media reNature, a startup that develops and scales regenerative farming and agroforestry projects, has closed on its first Seed round, adding four private impact investors that join existing investors DOEN Foundation and Meraki Impact. “We joined reNature in 2019 convinced of the enormous impact it will have on changing our […]
By Dr. Yelto Zimmer, Coordinator, agri benchmark Cash Crop, yelto.zimmer@agribenchmark.net The U.S. agricultural ministry (USDA) recently published a report on the likely consequences if the EU Commission’s Farm to Fork (F2F) Communication were to be put in place. In this paper, the Commission proposes a set of measures that are supposed to lower greenhouse gas emission in […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Oilseed & Grain News In February 2020, the Illinois Soybean Association (ISA), which represents more than 43,000 soybean farmers in Illinois, the top soybean-producing state in the U.S., welcomed a new CEO: John Lumpe. Lumpe is tasked with continuing ISA’s commitment to achieve maximum profitability and global competitive positioning of soy […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media The evolution and introduction of non-dairy alternatives onto the global market has been rapid and highly disruptive to the category. However, with the application of new technologies, what began with plant-based formulation and ideations has expanded to include products that are identical to dairy, but are made without animals. […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media French independent ag and food investor Unigrains has made an undisclosed investment in Innatis, France’s second largest name in the apple industry, with the goal of partnering with the company to achieve its strategic growth objectives, including the acquisition of major French fruit producer Domaine des Coteaux. “With Unigrains, […]
photo credit: Marubeni By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media At the same time that plant-based foods have been dominating the consumer food trends narrative, Marubeni has grown to be an international presence in the grain trading space. Global protein consumption is expected to climb at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1.7 percent, reaching […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media In mid-December Gladstone Land announced that it had increased its secured note purchase facility with Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (Farmer Mac) from $125 million to $225 million. At the time, company president and CEO David Gladstone said, “We believe this upsized facility will play an important role in our […]
Message From the Editor To say 2020 was challenging would be an understatement; yet as we stand here at the close of a year of great challenges and supreme sacrifices, we reflect on those who saw the opportunity in the difficulty. Those who, like our Global AgInvesting community, were resilient and with overarching patience, ingenious creativity and […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Through one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries, real estate investment trust (REIT) Gladstone Land has expanded its secured note purchase facility with Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (Farmer Mac) by $100 million. Under the terms of the agreement the secured note was extended from $125 million to $225 million, and the […]
