By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Sweetener brand Splenda and its parent company Heartland Food Products Group announced the official launch of Splenda Stevia Farm – a 1,465-acre fully integrated, eco-conscious farm now operating in Central Florida. Driven by the trend toward a more healthy lifestyle and diet, 72 percent of consumers have targeted sugar […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media McCain Foods is investing CAD$600 million (US$436 million) – its largest global investment in the company’s 65+ year history – to double the size and output at its facility located in Coaldale, Alberta, Canada. Up until now, McCain has operated a processing facility in Coaldale since 2000 that has […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Biotech startup Tiamat Sciences explained that it is reinventing recombinant proteins by using the power of plants to provide animal-free growth factors with a reduced carbon footprint at a fraction of the cost. Consequently, the startup announced that it has secured $2 million in seed-extension funding led by 8090 […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Paleo is a Belgian B2B precision fermentation company that has been working to crack the code of meat. By exploring what gives meat and fish their distinctive characteristics – their specific taste, look, and smell etc. – the startup concluded that heme proteins were at the root of the […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media For all the advances and penetration of tech in agriculture, the sector’s supply chains remain shockingly vulnerable. As Jeremy Stroud commented in his article, Covid-19, Agricultural Value Chains and Farmland Transactions, published by GAI News in July 2020, “The foundations of the modern agri-food value chain have been tested […]
By Ben Palen, Ag Management Partners In July, 2021, I penned an article regarding the farmland market, and expressed the opinion that it reminded me in some respects of a term that was used in the 1990s by the then Chairman of the Fed, Alan Greenspan. That term was “irrational exuberance.” In the past handful of years, […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Nuveen Natural Capital, the real asset-focused vehicle of the TIAA asset management arm, has divested 11,332 acres of forestland located in southeastern Oklahoma to national non-profit The Conservation Fund through its Working Forest Fund. Capital from The Conservation Fund’s green bonds – the first of their kind in the […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media As is often the case, potential cannot be realized without the necessary logistics and framework to support it. Latin America currently accounts for 16 percent of the world’s total food exports, a figure that the UN FAO expects to increase to 25 percent by 2028. And, as food security […]
Photo credit: Centuria Capital By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Specialist investment manager Centuria Capital Group has acquired a 20-hectare (50-acre) tomato glasshouse operation in Guyra, New South Wales via its Centuria Agriculture Fund (CAF) from an undisclosed family-owned investment office. This is the third off-market glasshouse asset acquisition for CAF, bringing total under-glass acreage […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media By leveraging technology, Amsterdam-based Source.ag intends to democratize access to sufficient fruits and vegetables through AI-driven greenhouses, which the startup stated is a safer, more reliable, and climate-resilient method of production. Although there exists huge potential (greenhouses can produce yields that are 15 times higher than traditional agriculture while […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Following a string of acquisitions building out their farmland holdings, Canada’s Veripath Farmland Partners announced the launch of an RRSP-eligible (Registered Retirement Savings Plan) farmland investment vehicle to provide access to the farmland investment class to a broader portion of Canadian investors. “Based on historical performance data, farmland as […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Approximately half of New Zealand’s total greenhouse gas emissions are attributed to animal agriculture. Of these emissions, three quarters are due to methane from the livestock sector, followed by nitrogen soil amendments, and then manure. One of the newest and most intriguing ways that science has developed to counter […]
