The subsidiary of Canadian financial holding company Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited completed its IPO and acquired an indirect 42.2 percent interest in AFGRI, a South African agricultural services and food processing company.
A new report from the FAO of the United Nations warns that agricultural yield gaps in lower-income countries are likely to widen further because public and private investment is concentrated in high-income countries.
Limited partners expect to deploy more capital into private equity in the next 12 months than in 2016, sister publication Private Equity International reported.
The National Farmers Union is using a new report outlining the economic value of British agriculture to urge lawmakers that a well-defined post-Brexit agri policy is needed.
The move marks a foray into the plant-based protein market for Maple Leaf, which up until now has sold meat products, from sausages to deli meat.
Global investment group Stafford Capital Partners has announced the appointment of two agriculture executives, Marek Guizot and James Allen, who joined the London-based real assets division last month.
PensionDanmark, PKA, ATP and Industriens Pension will contribute a total of DKK500 million to the newly-established and state-sponsored Danish Agriculture Capital fund.
The British government has agreed to contribute an additional £5m to support Rwanda’s strategic plan for the transformation of its agricultural sector.
Bullish on Australia’s agribusiness sector, PwC has hired a team of agri experts from PPB Advisory and has launched a new food safety assurance product.
The investment was made out of the Homestead Capital USA Farmland Fund II, which closed on its $400 million hard-cap in November.