Initiative 20x20, a collaboration between LatAm and Caribbean countries, multilateral organisations and the private sector, will restore 20m hectares of degraded forest and agricultural land across the region.
The Australian agriculture manager is targeting institutional investors for its diversified fund offering.
The AXA Group fund of funds house has launched the Architas Diversified Real Assets Fund and is looking for direct timber opportunities.
The Indian food and agribusiness private equity fund is close to a first close on $100m; it is currently on $80m with commitments from a range of DFIs and Rabobank.
The Asia-based asset management firm has raised two agri funds for private capital to co-invest alongside institutional clients.
The development organisations are raising $25m to provide loans to agriculture projects banks are still not reaching.
Led by Google’s Innovation Endeavours and Flextronics’ Lax IX, Farm2050 will support agtech start-up companies that can help improve agriculture production globally.
The UK forestry and wind farm asset manager has closed a top-up fundraising on £32m ahead of a £25m target. This takes the total fund size to $118m.
The social impact investor invested $2m in debt into Tropha Estates while African Agricultural Capital Fund and Jacoma Estates, Tropha's sponsor, invested $2m in equity each.
Global Environment Fund, CDC’s forestry manager, has received interest from a number of continental and north European pension funds.