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The pair are targeting the domestic timberland market and will invest venture and growth capital into businesses focused on adding value to forestry exports.

The 15-year closed-end fund has been seeded with capital from 10 Japanese companies including Sumitomo Forestry, Japan Post Holdings, and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation.

The minority investment into Parreira Almond Holding Company is the first in support of a 'farmland plus' strategy spearheaded by NewAg Partners co-founder Marcus Wignell and a pair of former Bunge executives.

The acquisition will combine two of the world’s leading malt businesses and ends United Malt’s short life as an independent business after spinning out from GrainCorp in 2020.

Glencore’s merger with Bunge brings CPPIB and BCI into the evolving quartet at the heart of global ag trade, albeit in a less direct form than if it had succeeded in creating a true rival.

The insurer has launched a €100m strategy to invest in up to 25 biomethane plants across Spain over a five-year period.

‘There isn’t resistance out of principle’ from Australian superfunds to investing in agriculture, but barriers remain, says CEFC’s Heechung Sung.

CDPQ's Nicolas Leyssieux and CEFC's Heechung Sung set out how the unusual deal to establish a farmland investment platform while taking an equity stake in Gunn Agri Partners came about.

CEFC and CDPQ will establish Wilga Farming, an open-end platform with A$200m of capital to be managed by Gunn Agri Partners, as well as taking a stake in the asset manager itself.

Coller Capital’s biannual survey of global LPs reveals low expectations for the venture industry this year.