Commodities

New income streams – from water rights to conservation and data infrastructure – are redefining what investors see in ranchland, says Ranchland Capital’s Ed Bardowski.

The acquisition expands New Forests’ sub-Saharan portfolio to more than 52,000ha of plantations across South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda.

The $38bn pension fund aims to deploy around $1.4bn through GPs in PE, infrastructure and real estate, using a ‘co-GP model’ that brings in local partnerships.

Grain markets are entering a new era of multipolar tension and demand uncertainty, warns Rabobank, as the stability of post-Cold War trade norms give way to a more volatile order.

Saudi Arabia’s Aram Palms Company will anchor two distinct vehicles targeting permanent crops and cold-chain infrastructure.

Lanna Agro Industry Co marks the 13th investment Proterra has made through the food and agribusiness-focused PAFF3.

The vehicle closed on $130m in 2024 and has made forestry plantation and infrastructure investments in Thailand and Laos.

The asset was sold by the firm’s Australia and New Zealand Forestry Fund 2, which closed on A$707m in 2014.

The buyers in the deal, which includes Soya Group, have struck a 15-year supply agreement with Stora Enso.

Australia’s median farmland price extends its run of growth to eleven years, albeit at a more modest pace than earlier in the decade.