Institutional Investors

ESO and Kingsley Capital are betting on a rise in Europe's Muslim population with their £20.5m investment in halal meat distributor Janan.

Chinese, Thai and Middle Eastern investors are to help fund and run the super-sized, vertically integrated project.

What does QIC's investment in beef company NAPCO tell us about what kind of agribusiness superfunds are likely to invest in?

A combined 86% of endowments and foundations think impact investing will produce returns at or above market performance.

Halderman, an agri-focused general partner whose institutional clients include the New Mexico Education Retirement Board, has merged with Hageman Group-backed US Agriculture.

The Singapore-based agribusiness company will invest the money in processing facilities in India and Nigeria that source produce from smallholder farmers.

The Queensland Investment Corporation looks set to fulfil its November mandate to target beef export opportunities in a country where the superannuation industry is often accused of ignoring agriculture.

Bayer has committed $10 million to the Bayer Trendlines Ag Innovation Fund, to be allocated over five years.

Four superfunds and AMP Capital Investors are backers for the fund, whose managers say cotton, chickpeas and cattle were the main profit drivers.

The US' largest pension fund believes divesting from tobacco resulted in $3bn of losses by the beginning of 2015.