The USDA has made $130m available for competitive grants for peer-reviewed research in six agri sub-sectors.
The firm will develop plantations and invest in timber processing in Angola's Planalto region.
The REIT's president Paul Pittman explains how it has kept revenues high against a backdrop of falling rents.
With slower than expected exits from its first Indian Agribusiness fund, the impact investment firm has indefinitely postponed plans for a $150m follow up.
Arbaro Partners has set up an impact investment fund, and has hired Finnfund's Hana Skelly to manage it.
The Dutch pension fund manager's private markets CIO is to join the direct investment arm of the French insurance giant as global head of its real assets private equity division.
Willowood USA will use the investment from speciality buyout firm Lariat to expand operations of its post-patent agri inputs business.
The acquisition by the Cooke group marks the second attempt by P&P to sell off the seafood company, after a previous agreement fell through last autumn.
Seven US universities will receive funding for research to make biofuel production more efficient and less costly.
The joint venture with Afrisian is the start of an expansion effort by the animal feed and edible oils company.