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The impact investing firm has purchased an $8m stake in agricultural logistics and financing provider Sohan Lal, with plans to help the Indian company expand its loans offerings to smallholder farmers.

In a report first seen by Agri Investor, agri private equity investor AgIS Capital pointed to investment opportunities in the market as farmland and row crop returns drop.

Greg Hennenfent has joined the farmland investing firm to help pursue private equity investments across the agribusiness value chain after stints with Starr Investment Holdings, Agricole and the CME Group.

The pension’s $580m agriculture portfolio has produced 17.8% returns over the past five years with a strategy favoring almonds, pistachios and other permanent crops.

The Accelerating Inclusive Markets for Smallholders project aims to help Cambodian farmers improve yields and strengthen connections with local markets and investors.

National Australia Bank expects cattle prices to fall further in 2017 due to softening demand abroad but is optimistic that weaker Australian dollar will help exports.

Rabobank senior farm inputs analyst Kenneth Zuckerberg outlines key themes underpinning the ongoing transformation of the farm inputs sector.

The Chinese grain trader now exclusively owns Dutch agribusiness Nidera and has selected Johnny Chi, chief executive of COFCO International and COFCO Agri, as Nidera’s new CEO.

The UN developmental finance institution will use a combination of debt and equity in its contribution to a $853m effort to improve irrigation for the southeast Asian nation’s 24 million smallholder farmers.

Under the agreement, PHI and HMC will grow premium organic turmeric in Vietnam and establish an organic turmeric farming operation on a 408-acre property in Florida.