Vertical integration is essential for successful agriculture production in Africa, argue investment firms and consultants.
The impact fund is aimed at promoting sustainably-sourced food and smallholder farming communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
The foundation, established by the global payments giant, has launched a challenge fund to enable better access to finance among smallholder farmers.
Private equity firm One Thousand & One Voices has invested into RedSun Dried Fruit & Nuts through Africa Fund I.
Moringa has invested in Cafetalera Nicafrance, a coffee and high-end timber producer, its first investment.
The Andersons has launched Maumee Ventures to invest into emerging agriculture technologies.
The open-ended sustainable aquaculture fund has invested $4m into a US biotech company and a tilapia producer in Mozambique.
Agrar Invest Romania is constructing a logistics centre with the proceeds of a recent farmland sale.
The private equity firm invested a further $18m into Allflex Corp to support its recent acquisition of SCR, a livestock monitoring company.
The institutional manager is selling down the assets of the 2005 Fund I.