The private equity firm has bought Spearhead, a vertically-integrated producer with land in Eastern Europe and the UK.
The new farm is expected to have an annual rental income of 8 to 10 percent of the purchase price and it is the first permanent crop farm the REIT has acquired.
The New York-based farmland real estate investment trust joins Farmland Partners to become the second NYSE-listed agri REIT.
The US pension system's $152.5m timber portfolio is under new management.
The project is expected to improve 125,000 acres of soil using efficient drainage, which will result in higher crop productivity by 15% to 20% on selected crops.
The Inter-American Investment Corporation, a member of the Inter-American Development Bank, has loaned $6m to International Greenhouse Produce.
Beefmaster Holdings is the second agri investment for sub-Saharan African focused fund One Thousand & One Voices.
The $106.8bn pension fund has committed the vast majority of its $1.4bn tangible assets allocation to agri-related investments.
The World Bank's political risk insurance arm has issued a $48.8m guarantee to help the bamboo plantations manager expand its Nicaraguan operations.
ARPA-E awarded $55m to fund 18 projects to accelerate technologies for efficient residential combined heat and power generation and bioenergy crop development.
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