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Steak Tzar Tzar aims to break into the protein powder industry in the US as well as emerging markets that eat whole insects in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

Anne Stausboll has served CalPERS as chief executive since January 2009, a time when the largest US public pension fund was experiencing turmoil from the financial crisis and an ethics scandal involving its former officials.

The acquisition of AgriLogic gives Aspen Group a platform to develop agriculture insurance operations in the US.

The paper says private companies concentrate too much on short-term profit margins, and that more research has to be carried out with public funding.

By using microbes to improve crop resilience, the company hopes to drive sustainable yield improvements.

The VC-backed company will look at how agriculture can help humans survive on space colonies.

The DFI will extend $20m to the farm operator and agribusiness holder, a long-term partner.

Sunny Delight has been acquired by a second private equity firm after Procter & Gamble sold the juice-based drinks brand's North American businesses in 2004.

The acquisition was made on behalf of an outside client and not from the TIMO's $662m Fund IV.

Agribusinesses in South Africa have reached their highest historical debt levels, but a major lender's head of agriculture information said treating the sector as cyclical was key.