The US pension fund is targeting a 5 percent allocation to timberland over the next five to six years. It recently increased a mandate with Forest Investment Associates.
Omnivore Partners, the Indian venture capital firm focusing on agtech, has invested into Mitra, a machinery company. The firm's Fund I is now 50 percent deployed.
The UK-based forestry and wind farm asset manager is aiming to raise £25m and says the fund is getting interest from small institutional investors.
The livestock farm management company is set to invest into two local farms, alongside a range of high net worth individual investors.
Jacob Robbins, the former managing director of global sweeteners at Coca Cola, plans to establish projects across Asia, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, predominantly in bioenergy crops.
Craigmore Farming Partnership, a New Zealand own-and-operate agri fund with a focus on dairy, is planning to hold a final close in June.
The US brokerage firm is offering investors access to partially owned mortgage pools in the agricultural sector.
The SLM Australia Livestock Fund is negotiating an A$20m - A$30m debt and equity deal with an undisclosed institutional investor.
Advantage Capital Partners will invest a $150m fund targeting US small businesses across the agriculture value chain.
NGP Global Agribusiness Partners, the subsidiary of NGP Energy Capital, has closed its inaugural fund on $402m, some 25% above target.