By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded in 2012, Freight Farms realized that urban agriculture required a modular and scalable solution. Within two years, with the mission to democratize and decentralize the production of fresh produce, the startup developed its first vertical hydroponic farm inside an intermodal shipping container called the Leafy Green Machine. And […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Cibus Capital announced that Cibus Fund I will be making its first exit of a wholly-owned portfolio company after agreeing to divest its largest asset – the Iberian extra virgin olive oil producer and processor Innoliva Group (Innoliva) – to global private asset manager Fiera Comox. Based in London, […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Ten forestry companies including Dasos Capital, F&W Forestry, Gresham House, Marubeni, Mitsui & Co., New Forests, Oji Holdings Corporation, Rayonier, Stora Enso, and UPM are answering the urgent call to action on climate change, biodiversity loss, deforestation, and other critical environmental challenges by launching a new industry body, the […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Omnivore has been a pioneer of investment in agtech in India, having partnered with more than 40 startups making farming more profitable, resilient, sustainable, and climate-proof. And, over the past decade has been a key player in the remarkable tech-driven revolution taking hold in the country as advances in […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Leading South American beef exporter Minerva Foods announced it has agreed to acquire 16 cattle slaughtering and deboning plants (including 11 in Brazil, three in Uruguay, one in Argentina, and one lamb plant in Chile) from beef rival Marfrig Foods, the parent company of U.S.-based National Beef and Iowa […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Biotech company ViAqua Therapeutics announced it has closed on $8.25 million in funding led by S2G Ventures, with participation from Rabo Ventures, The Trendlines Group, Agriline Limited, Nutreco, I-Lab Angels, and Circle Investments. A major hurdle holding back the shift toward a sustainable aquaculture industry is the prevention and […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Climate tech company CH4 Global has closed on a $29 million Series B, bringing total funding to-date to nearly $47 million in support of their mission to radically reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in animal agriculture. The company explained that this funding was led by DCVC, DCVC Bio, and […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Climate Asset Management (CAM) was formed in 2020 as a joint venture between HSBC Asset Management and Pollination, a climate change and advisory firm, with the goal of being the world’s leading asset management company fully dedicated to natural capital providing investment solutions that benefit nature, people, and the […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Brown&Co. is bringing a unique institutional scale investment opportunity to the market, brokering a premium 44,000-hectare, grass-fed beef breeding and fattening operation and 46,000 head of predominantly Brangus cattle in the Gran Chaco region of Paraguay. Having begun working in South America in the early 2000s, Brown&Co. has built […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Forever Feed Technologies announced it has secured an undisclosed, but multi-million dollar investment, from a group of dairy and agriculture leaders to support its work developing enterprise scale, automated indoor-growing feed mills. Participating in the round were River Ranch Farms, Bar 20 Dairy, and Producers Dairy Products, all of […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media Since 2019, The Radicle Challenge has recognized the best and brightest entrepreneurs looking to disrupt existing business models or provide solutions in the world of food and ag. Through the years, Radicle has partnered with global ag industry leaders – such as Syngenta, Corteva, World Agri-Tech, and this […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Both Mitsui & Co. and Nomura, a global financial services group with a network spanning more than 30 countries and regions, have concluded agreements to invest in Tropical Asia Forest Fund 2, a Southeast Asian forestry resource fund managed by New Forests Asia, a wholly owned subsidiary of New […]
