The venture capital firm expects that agriculture technology firms will make up a portion of the $125m Opportunity Fund.
Zouk Capital has invested in UrbanWind, a firm that targets landowners, farmers, agribusinesses, and community groups and helps develop wind turbines backed by the UK’s feed-in-tariff scheme.
Grannus closed a Series A round of financing with a $2m investment from an undisclosed strategic investor.
The $105 billion Washington State Investment Board has approved a $300m commitment to the row- and permanent-crop farmland management company, taking the pension's agri exposure to $1.1bn.
The US tech giant has invested into The Conservation Fund's Working Forest Fund to help conserve 36,000 acres of working forestland in Maine and North Carolina which will later be sold onto institutional investors.
The World Bank Group lender will lend up to €90m to the rose farm to help support a 50% hike in staff numbers and an expansion of the business in a deal that "complements" KKR's $200m equity investment last year.
The US rapper contributed to the $10m Series A round of funding for Eaze, a San Francisco headquartered company.
Australia's largest landowner, which covers 100,000 square kilometres, is up for sale as a whole business by the family that has held it since 1899.
The Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board has reacted to the Saskatchewan government's ban on purchases by institutional investors during a review of the province's farmland ownership regulations.
The pension is making the allocation as part of its real assets direct and co-investment programme.