Tom Taylor

The deal brings New Forests’ Tropical Asia Forest Fund 2 to about 80% deployment and signals the firm’s push to develop forestry and natural capital assets across the wider Pacific.

Australian agtech startup Nbryo plans to scale up its low-cost in-vitro embryo production technology to accelerate genetic gains and cut livestock emissions.

Canada remains the largest foreign holder of Australian water entitlements as total foreign water interests inch higher.

As wildfires and extreme weather escalate, investors are under increasing pressure to allocate more capital to climate resilience and risk sidelining the longer-term goal of reducing emissions.

Foreign ownership of Australian agriculture has seen its first increase in two years as North American investors rapidly expand their holdings and the UK claims the top spot.

New Zealand investment manager MyFarm aims to acquire more kiwifruit orchards and increase its holding in grower-owned marketer Zespri in a move that could make it the company’s largest shareholder.

Australia’s Agriculture and Land Sector Plan outlines major opportunities in carbon, biodiversity and clean fuel, but investors lack the clarity that has driven capital into other sectors like renewable energy.

The pension has previously partnered with Gunn Agri on a farmland platform and has now established a carbon credit beachhead with CEFC – timberland is the next target.

Silva Capital has broken ground on the first project registered under Australia’s biodiversity market but questions remain over how the demand for biodiversity certificates will develop.

Cibus Carbon aims to deliver 11.25m Australian Carbon Credit Units, tapping into a growing demand from corporates required to comply with Australia’s Safeguard Mechanism.