By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media UNCAGED Innovations (UNCAGED), the world’s first leather alternative company making sustainable leather from grains at scale, has closed on an oversubscribed $5.6 million Seed round co-led by Green Circle Foodtech Ventures and Fall Line Capital. Ponderosa Ventures, Golden Seeds, and existing investor InMotion Ventures, the investment arm of Jaguar […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media IDeA Agro, managed by DeA Capital Alternative Funds SGR and the first private equity fund in Italy to focus on agribusiness and farmland, has completed its investment cycle with its tenth investment – the acquisition of a majority stake in S.P.O. Zentrum, the Sicily-based leading platform in Italy, for […]
Photo credit: LAWD By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media With expectations of attracting both domestic and global interest, LAWD is managing the sale of Proterra Investment Partners’ (Proterra) One Tree Portfolio targeting collective returns of more than A$250 million million. Consisting of three aggregations across some of Australia’s highest-quality agriculture zones, the 23,595-hectare portfolio is […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media ACCESS Pool, a £40 billion (US$50.56 billion) UK pension fund vehicle overseeing the pooled assets of 11 administering authorities consisting of a collaboration of Central, Eastern, and Southern Shire Councils, has selected Stafford Capital Partners (Stafford) and J.P. Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM) to be its global timberland managers. Two of […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Inverness Graham Green Light Fund has made its third investment, executing a major recapitalization for My Yield, a direct provider of specialty and integrated seed treatment formulas, application systems, and agronomic support to growers. Active as a lower middle market buyout strategy, Inverness Graham Green Light Fund seeks to […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Despite being a contributor, agriculture is also one of the most vulnerable sectors to climate change. But regenerative growing practices, which work with nature to optimize the health of the entire ecosystem, offer growers the ability to build healthy soils that can protect crops from uncertain rainfall patterns, reduce […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The UN postulates that global climate, biodiversity, and land degradation goals will remain unmet unless investments in nature-based solutions more than double by 2025, to $384 billion per year. Doing their part, Equator VC has led a $4.2 million funding round for Downforce Technologies, a UK-based climate tech leader […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Women in Agribusiness Media (This interview is reprinted from our sister publication, Women in Agribusiness Today.) A geographer at heart with more than 15 years in academia as a research assistant and professor, Dr. Alyssa Whitcraft was the perfect candidate to establish NASA Acres (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), a new U.S.-focused agriculture […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media As a means to spark the circular economy in Latin America and the Caribbean, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) has made an initial investment of $2 million in Costa Rica-based ProNuvo, a startup focused on the sustainable production of insect-based animal feed. With the global population on track to […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (TIG) has announced a groundbreaking carbon offset credit transaction through which it will provide up to 8 million nature-based carbon removal credits to Microsoft through 2043. Recognized as the largest known carbon dioxide removal credit deal to-date by MSCI Carbon Markets, the credits will […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Launched three years ago, AgriFutures growAG is an initiative of the Australian government through the AgriFutures Research and Development Corporation. Over the course of its existence, it has connected the global agrifood network of researchers, investors, universities, government agencies, companies and corporates, facilities, and more by making introductions for […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media U.S. Senator Angus King (I-ME) announced an award of $3.4 million from the Indigenous Animals Harvesting and Meat Processing (IAG) grant program – part of the USDA’s Rural Development program – for the Passamaquoddy Tribe to build a controlled aquaculture eel farm, as opposed to relying on wild eel […]
