By Autumn Demberger, AgInvesting Media Next week, the global agriculture investment sector will join together in the heart of Brisbane, Australia for the inaugural GAI Australia summit, taking place June 10-11. For the first time in its near-two-decade history, Global AgInvesting (GAI)—the world’s premier gathering for agriculture, water, timberland, and natural capital stakeholders—is heading to […]
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By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded in 2000 by Romanian entrepreneur Jabbar Kanani, Ågricover has two main business units: an agricultural inputs distribution division, and a specialized financing platform for farmers provided by non-banking financial institution Agricover Credit IFN S.A. In 2017, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development became a key shareholder in […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Agricultural insight company Sentera offers integrative in-field data insights products that can easily be used with the digital ag platforms in use by more than 80 percent of the growers in the U.S. The company’s business centers on FieldAgent, a software platform designed specifically for food and agriculture that […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Leading agrifood investment and innovation platform SVG Ventures|THRIVE is collaborating with Israel’s Start-Up Nation Central to forge a North America-Israel bridge supporting the mutual growth of, and connections between, the agrifood tech ecosystems in each country. Together, Silicon Valley-based SVG Ventures and Start-Up Nation Central, a nonprofit with a […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Co-founded in 2016 by Francisco Roque de Pinho and Joaquín Labella in Uruguay – a country with vast unexplored agricultural potential wedged between Argentina and Brazil – TLG Management Partners (TLG) works to implement improvements on, and then manage, underperforming farmland properties in South America on behalf of European […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Japanese trading giant Marubeni has invested in KitchenTown, a Silicon Valley-based food startup incubator – providing backing that will support KitchenTown’s consulting and incubation operations, along with Japanese startups working to enter the U.S. market, and U.S. startups expanding into Asia. “Startups drive the growth of the global economy […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Boston-based Folium Capital was co-founded in 2016 by three former Harvard Management Co. colleagues and forestry and agriculture investment specialists – Andrew Wiltshire, Oliver Grantham, and Alvaro Aguirre – with the goal of raising $500 million to invest in agriculture and timber investments. Expanding upon its focus on the […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Launched in November 2020 under the management of INVL, the leading investment management and life insurance group in the Baltics, with an initial target of EUR100 million (US$110.5 million), the INVL Sustainable Timberland and Farmland Fund II (STAFF II) operates with the intention of heavily focusing on the sustainable […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Athian’s key mission is to help the beef and dairy value chains capture and then claim carbon credits earned by aggregating, validating, and certifying greenhouse gas reductions – and then monetizing those reductions through the sale of the credits. These steps are accomplished for producers of all sizes through […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media In business since 2009, Maple Hill Creamery has been a pioneer in regenerative agriculture as America’s original and largest 100 percent grass-fed, organic dairy company. The company has made healthy soil the cornerstone of their entire business model and works endlessly the farmers within its network who utilize only […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media With a mission to democratize access to capital for women and gender-diverse founders, The51 identifies as a Financial Feminist™ platform – one dedicated to driving economic empowerment for women as a path to gender equality. Based in Calgary, Canada, The51 Food and AgTech General Partnership (GP) is founded and […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media By 2050 the population of the sub-Saharan region is expected to double from 1 to 2 billion people. This explosive increase will lead to fish demand that dwarfs what we see today – with demand climbing from 10 million metric tons per year today to between 16-29 million metric […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media To quote ReFED, “Our food system is radically inefficient”. Total food wasted in 2021 was 1.3 billion tons, or one-third of the food produced, with the UK generating more than 9.5 million tons of food waste that same year. One approach to mitigating this issue is to extend the […]
