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The Swedish pension fund is pursuing a more direct co-investment route for its timber exposure, having spent the past 10 years investing predominantly via third-party funds.

The New Zealand dairy fund manager is expecting to close on just over NZ$200m, concluding four years of fundraising.

The private equity firm is again backing agribusiness in China with a view to improving food safety, having purchased a stake in Fujian Sunner, a vertically integrated chicken meat producer.

The Macquarie/MD Sass JV will target $750m for its third agri debt fund and is also plotting its first pure private equity fund.

Asia Plantation Capital may list its investment management business and its own forestry assets but some $500m of third-party AUM would remain private.

The Chinese private equity firm has acquired a 20% stake in China’s Chery Heavy Industry.

Increasing numbers of fund management firms are popping up in the Central and Eastern European region, drawn by the cheap land on offer, according to an investment consultant at Towers Watson.

UK-based forestry and wind farm asset manager FIM has reopened fundraising and is expected to hold a final close on roughly $108m in November.

The US pension fund has increased its agri exposure, investing $30 million in New Zealand-based Southern Pastures.

Sunbird Bioenergy Africa will operate a cassava-based biofuels project financed by two partners providing equity and debt financing.