Emerging Markets

The Taiwanese family office is looking to allocate up to $4bn in the next five to eight years.

Campbell Global added to its haul of wins in the Global category as Climate Asset Management, EFM and Stafford Capital also won for their Olympic Rainforest deal.

The Inter-American Development Bank’s $15m commitment to SA Impact Forestry Fund II includes Finnish and Canadian government-backed finance.

The FarmCarbon vehicle finances modular biogas digesters for smallholder farmers and has also been backed by Shell.

The firm has partnered with developer Imperative and will invest up to $30m per project, managing partner Agustin Silvani told affiliate title New Private Markets.

Rainforest Builder is working on tropical forest restoration projects in Ghana, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

The pair have provided a $15m credit facility to an East African financial institution that will support MSMEs and agricultural businesses.

The infrastructure specialist has acquired SuperFreeze Singapore as the first step in its build-out of a regional platform.

Better public-private alignment, improved logistics and a change in investment mindset can turn the continent’s food challenges into a strength, say Proterra Asia’s Tai Lin and Cohen Tan.

CEO Aleksandra Holmlund explains why improving biodiversity in working forests is a plausible path to scale, despite the negative impacts on harvesting income and carbon capture.