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The Nordic private equity firm has made its first investment in the seafood sector through its maiden fund with the acquisition of a 75% stake in Milarex.

The author of a recent Boston Consulting Group report says 'there is a large, illiquid market of assets that is increasingly coming up for sale', which could benefit the private sector.

Kansas-based Creekstone Farms has been sold by the US private equity firm after 12 years of ownership to Japanese grain trader Marubeni Corporation.

The business was sold by Louis Dreyfus Company to Helios' third Africa-focused fund, a $1.1bn vehicle closed in 2013.

The data provider reported a 1.63% total return on US farmland in the second quarter, outpacing both the previous quarter and the same period in 2016.

Senior investment manager Ryan Sullivan says demand for real asset investments will be strengthened as US investors seek inflation protection.

South Africa’s Western Cape ag sector is set to receive a boost, as the province’s investment promotion agency focuses on agri-processing as a means towards economic growth and job creation.

San Francisco-based Plenty has raised $200m from Japan’s SoftBank Group and other high-profile investors in what it calls ‘the largest agriculture technology investment in history’.

The REIT paid some $13.6m for four contiguous farms at a time when tree nuts stand to benefit the most from increasing global middle class consumption.

The fund is being raised by TIAA-affiliate Westchester Group and will initially focus on investments in Poland.