By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media BeeHero CEO Omer Davidi explained, “BeeHero’s mission is to deliver pollination accountability for commercial crop growers, by leveraging big data analytics and machine learning to help them mitigate pollination risk. Thus allowing them to focus on producing more food, securely, and sustainably.” In support of this mission, the pollination […]
By Weiyi Zhang, Ph.D., Senior Agricultural Economist, Manulife Investment Management The financial performance of farmland and agricultural investments is driven by both market specific factors and developments in the global macroeconomic environment. The recent dramatic changes in the U.S. economy, including rising inflation and interest rates, are already impacting farmland operations and income. The financial […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media New Forests, a global investment manager of nature-based real asset and natural capital strategies, announced the launch of its new Australia New Zealand Landscapes and Forestry fund (ANZLAFF) with the goal of raising A$600 million (US$404.73 million) over the next two-to-three years. Headquartered in Sydney since its inception in […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media A little-known fact about today’s fashion industry is that the vast majority of the dye currently used to color the jeans we wear is not made from indigo, as I always assumed, but is synthetic, made through petroleum-based processes involving toxic chemicals. Since its inception in 2012, Tennessee-based Stony […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded in 2018, Silverstrand Capital is a single family office based in Singapore with an impact mandate focused on addressing the biodiversity crisis through systemic investment solutions that advance regenerative food systems and accelerate wide scale restoration and conservation of natural ecosystems. The office initially invested in Aqua-Spark in […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Spun off from Cargill’s Black River Asset Management in 2016, Proterra Investment Partners has offices in Minneapolis, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Sao Paulo, and London with $3.6 billion in food and ag AUM. Working out of the Shanghai and Singapore office, Tai Lin, managing director of subsidiary Proterra Asia, directs […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Since its beginning, Verdant Robotic’s mission has been multi-pronged: to address one of the most serious looming threats to farmers – a shortage of labor – and to provide robotic solutions that enable more growers to access regenerative and precision practices that support soil health, water conservation, carbon sequestration, […]
By Gustavo Llona, Partner and CEO, Frontal Trust Agribusiness Food security has become even more challenging in recent times, where we have witnessed and experienced how vulnerable food production and supply chains may be, especially when impacted by trade conflicts, pandemics, “special military operations”, or other events. This situation is forcing countries and companies to reassess […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Southern Premium Vineyards (SPV), the platform formed by PSP Investments to own Australian vineyards, has entered into a long-term strategic partnership with Australia’s Casella Family Brands (CFB) under which SPV will acquire 7,215 hectares (17,829 acres) of vineyards across 35 properties in South Australia and New South Wales. Established […]
By Robin Saluoks, Co-Founder and CEO, eAgronom Agriculture is going places. The traditionally very low-tech sector that has been lagging behind on digital transformation saw agtech VC deals jump from $6.5 billion in 2020 to $11.4 billion in 2021. It’s now undeniably a hotbed for investment and innovation. The reasons for this are manifold: the realities […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media I’ve recently seen a variety of announcements being made by U.S. grain companies and cooperatives in the form of a strategic business expansion, a shift in leadership, an acquisition, and an investment. And I thought I’d share them all in one place, as a roundup, if you will. Landus […]
Photos courtesy of Goterra By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media Standing at the forefront of the revolution of organic waste management is Olympia Yarger. A visionary in the Australian insect farming industry, in 2014 Yarger founded Goterra, which builds and deploys smart city infrastructure for food waste management. Since that time, the company’s innovative […]
