Celebrating the industry leaders transforming the agri asset class
The Agri Investor Global Awards celebrate the biggest dealmakers, fundraisers and investors who stood out in 2025. This year, our awards span 40 categories across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
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Agri Investor Global Awards 2025: Meet the winners!
The Agri Investor Global Awards celebrate the biggest dealmakers, fundraisers and investors who stood out in 2025. This year, our awards span 40 categories across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
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ANALYSIS
PREVIOUS AWARDS
Agri Investor Global Awards 2024: Meet the winners!
We celebrate the fundraisers, investors and dealmakers who won awards across 39 categories in our fourth annual Agri Investor Global Awards.
Agri Investor Awards 2024 – Global winners
BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group wins the award for Global Fund Manager of the Year as US DFC takes home the Institutional Investor of the Year award for the first time.
Agri Investor Awards 2024 – Asia-Pacific winners
GoFarm, Paine Schwartz Partner and the Alberta Investment Management Corporation all did well in this year’s APAC categories.
Agri Investor Awards 2024 – Europe winners
Royal London Asset Management entered natural capital with a huge farmland deal and was duly rewarded, while Cibus Capital’s Fund II also proved to be a strong draw.
Agri Investor Awards 2024 – Americas winners
BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group adds to its haul of three wins in the Global category with another three wins in the Americas.
Astarte Capital Partners on the future of sustainable finance
Natural capital creates long-term, renewable value, says Astarte’s co-founder and managing partner Dr Stavros Siokos.
‘This will be a landmark year for natural capital’ – Octopus Investments’ Alex Godfrey
The natural capital investment director says five key developments suggest the asset class could have a breakout year in 2025.
Meet the biggest agri-food and forestry fund managers
The AFF 20 is Agri Investor’s inaugural ranking of the biggest fund managers by capital raised between January 2019 and December 2023.
New Forests on aligning production and conservation
Investing in forestry and agriculture is critical if we are to transition to a sustainable, renewable world, say New Forests’ David Brand and Mark Rogers.
BTG Pactual on why timberland is a business of scale
Focusing on large-scale timberland investment increases the benefits available to all stakeholders, say BTG’s Gerrity Lansing and Mark Wishnie.
GO.FARM: Australia’s agriculture is ripe for the picking
There’s enormous potential to be found within Australian agriculture, which will only grow as the market matures, say GO.FARM’s Liam Lenaghan and LAWD’s Danny Thomas.
Buy-and-lease is well into its second act
The farmland strategy has swung wholesale from being almost exclusively a closed-end play to an open-end strategy – but its evolution is far from over.
Paine Schwartz Partners on real asset investing with a PE approach
Ensuring investing success in food and agribusiness is all about the ‘right’ strategy, says Kevin Schwartz, CEO and managing partner at Paine Schwartz Partners.
Farmland investing suffers from no shortage of creativity
We spoke to nine fund managers for our buy-and-lease Deep Dive and no two strategies were alike.
Cautious capital may be just what food systems need
Cibus Capital founder and chief investment officer Rob Appleby says the competitive investment landscape for novel solutions could help better align the industry with climate and human health goals.
Merricks Capital: Planting the seeds of credit
Adrian Redlich, James Murfett, Dan O’Donoghue and Geoff Davis from Merricks Capital explain the benefits of agriculture credit strategies for investors.
Climate Asset Management on finding value through regeneration
Restoring degraded land has long-term financial benefits, say Martin Berg and Ben O’Donnell, CEO and CIO at Climate Asset Management.
Farmland LP on the importance of diversification
For farmland investors, focusing on a range of geographies and crops is critical, says Craig Wichner, founder and managing partner of Farmland LP.
Agri Investor Global Awards 2023: Meet the winners!
We celebrate the managers, investors and innovators who won awards across 38 categories in our third annual Agri Investor Global Awards.
Agri Investor Awards 2023 – Global winners
Paine Schwartz Partners wins the award for Global Fund Manager of the Year as CDPQ takes home the Institutional Investor of the Year award for the first time.
Agri Investor Awards 2023 – Americas winners
Paine Schwartz Partners adds another five wins to its haul from the Global category to walk away with an unprecedented 10 wins.
Agri Investor Awards 2023 – Europe winners
France’s Mirova wins the European Fund Manager of the Year Award as Bpifrance takes home Institutional Investor of the Year.
Agri Investor Awards 2023 – Asia-Pacific winners
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan continues the tradition of Canadian LPs doing well in the Asia-Pacific category, as New Forests is named the region’s Fund Manager of the Year
Mirova: Natural capital is starting to bear fruit
Gautier Quéru, managing director of natural capital at Mirova, outlines the way blended finance can provide solutions
Four challenges stifle natural capital investment
Limited awareness of what is meant by natural capital and a fluid carbon credits regulatory landscape are among the difficulties in steering money towards the fledgling strategy, says Olly Hughes of Gresham House.
Manulife: Carbon markets bolster timberland investing
Timberland is an ideal natural capital investment, with carbon credits providing a potential additional revenue stream for sustainably managed assets, says Manulife Investment Management’s Thomas Sarno
On the minds of agri managers
The asset class is seeing increasing focus on sustainability, say industry experts
Beyond decarbonization: the adaptation opportunity for agri-food
The need to reduce emissions from food production presents challenges – but also opportunities. Tenacious Ventures’ Matthew Pryor and Sarah Nolet explain.
Paine Schwartz Partners: More produce, less waste
Reducing waste for post-harvest produce presents a big opportunity for sustainability-focused investors, says Paine Schwartz’s CEO Kevin Schwartz
Astarte: Looking south for impact
Forestry investors can access higher returns and achieve greater impact in the Global South, says Astarte’s managing partner and co-founder Stavros Siokos
