Riparian Capital Partners aims to incentivize more sustainable farming practices in the irrigated farming sector through its green water leases, provided via the Riparian Water Fund.
Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a VC fund founded by Bill Gates, contributed to a $12m second-phase seed round alongside Harvest Road and other investors.
The firm’s C$30m pilot vehicle invested exclusively in projects that could generate carbon credits and has been able to deliver IRRs in the high teens.
At Peoples Company Land Investment Expo in Iowa earlier this month, FCSA senior vice-president Jim Knuth said market conditions are combining to squeeze farmer margins and will bring the current boom to an end.
Peoples Company’s annual Land Investment Expo saw attendees trying to predict the direction of US interest rates, geopolitics and the weather – but the centrality of government support only appears to be heading in one direction.
Empowering female decision makers in ag is an important step toward building a more prosperous food system, says Women in Agriculture initiative director Leonor Gutierrez.