Aspada Investment Company has invested $3.2m into InI Farms, a vertically-integrated horticulture company. Kushal Agrawal, chief financial officer, discusses the sector's opportunities.
The US timberland investment manager is raising a non-US timber fund to focus on buying assets in Australia, Brazil, Chile, New Zealand and Uruguay.
The Australasian real estate company has hired Shaun Hendy from CBRE as director of valuation, rural & agribusiness. He is looking to recruit three to four new valuers to join his North Australian team.
Families own 97 percent of the 2.1 million farms in the US, according to the latest Census of Agriculture. This makes for a liquid farmland investment market, according to Paul Pittman, CEO of Farmland Partners.
Illinois farmland prices will decline between 1 percent and 5 percent in 2015 according to nearly 50 percent of respondents to a survey conducted by The Illinois Society of Professional Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers.
WISErg Corp, a waste management and organic fertiliser producer, has raised $11m in Series B funding in a round led by Second Avenue Partners, an early stage investment firm.
The UK development finance institution has joined Finnfund in committing to Miro Forestry, a sustainable forestry company operating in Sierra Leone and Ghana.
Berry Polmann and Gaia Arnaboldi have left Swiss fund of funds house Adveq where they were executive directors of real assets and leading the firm’s agriculture investment effort.
Colombian cocoa private equity fund Serfinco Agronegocios has held a first close on $10 million. The 20-year fund is targeting $30 million overall and hopes to close by the end of the year.
The venture capital firm recently closed Fund V on $537m and intends to invest one-third into agriculture with the remaining targeting healthcare opportunities.