CEO Aleksandra Holmlund explains why improving biodiversity in working forests is a plausible path to scale, despite the negative impacts on harvesting income and carbon capture.
Chief operating officer Stavros Koutsantonis says progress in the measurement, reporting and verification of regenerative farming practices is helping to create excitement among LPs for its US farmland strategy.
The firm’s debut farmland vehicle will pursue an own-and-operate strategy and expects regenerative farmland certification to act as a ‘strategic value lever’.
Limited partners include AMB Holdings, Builders Vision, Cisco Foundation, Stray Works and Australian impact investing firms Understorey Ventures and Wedgetail.
The firm launched the vehicle in 2022 with a $500m target to pursue a strategy combining higher-risk farmland investments with processing and marketing infrastructure.
The full-year figures show agri-food and forestry fundraising registered its second-highest haul in the past five years.
The multi-asset class allocator will launch a real asset debt search and scale its alternatives platform this year.
The Australia and New Zealand-focused private equity firm expands its exposure to food and agriculture with the acquisition of a majority stake in meat producer BE Campbell.
The Helsinki-headquartered timberland manager sold assets located in Latvia and Lithuania to Inter Ikea Group in early December.
Fund managers across the globe have launched new biodiversity strategies, crediting schemes and restoration deals – even as uncertainty over demand lingers.