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US firm Paine & Partners has invested in the sector on the back of growing regulation and consolidation prospects.

Gladstone continues to invest in almond production, this time buying properties with well-developed trees already on-site.

Chinese buyers have snapped up more than $100bn in overseas assets this year and participants in sister publication PEI’s Asia roundtable say the appetite for foreign deals is set to grow.

The French firm is aiming to double its funds under management in real and alternative assets by 2020.

The Gunn Agri Cattle Fund has grown in gross asset value to A$96.9m after only two quarters of operation.

In light of the recent news that the ICC is to expand its remit to include crimes associated with land grabbing and deforestation, Valentine Chitalu, chairman at sustainability focused African private equity firm Phatisa, argues that it is becoming increasingly clear that the most important consideration in large-scale farming project investment should be sustainable investment.

The Canadian institution has agreed to offer intellectual support to China’s economic planners as they seek to shake up the pension sector.

The Australian fund manager, fresh from a A$280m first close for its co-mingled fund, has bought Banongill Station, a 17,000 acre property in Victoria’s Western District.

The firm is considering investing up to a quarter of mid-cap buyout Fund VI in food and agribusiness, and is already looking at deals.

The EBRD says it is focusing on climate-change friendly solutions in Morocco and the surrounding region in the lead up to COP22 in Marrakesh this year.