The Canadian farmland fund manager has been approached by at least two institutional investors interested in buying the assets of two of its existing retail funds.
WP Global Partners will manage agribusiness investments for the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead pension. The fund wants to play the sector through co-investments, venture capital and private equity funds.
Impact investment lender Calvert Foundation plans to establish an agri-related sideline.
The UK-based DFI is keen to invest into African and South Asian food processing businesses as it develops its direct investment platform.
A loan by the European Investment Bank will underpin Slovakia’s first Rural Development Programme.
The US public pension giant has committed $250m to a separate account managed by Wood Creek as well as $50m to ACM’s ‘permanent crops’ fund, which aims to raise $250m.
The country’s largest superannuation fund has sold a 2.5 percent stake in Kaingaroa Timberlands.
The farmland portfolio sold for $115 million and ends the nine-year life of Assiniboia’s listed vehicle.
Danica Pension is the latest LP to join the platform, preferring direct investment to committing to a fund.
A $5m investment into a Kenyan flower exporter represents one of the $100m Fund I's final deals, as the firm readies a first close for Fund II.