Livestock

The acquisition of Australia's Palgrove Stud brings the sovereign fund's land portfolio to 33 farms worth $215m.

The debt investment by the UK fund will enable Kapani, a Malawian meat processor, to expand its poultry operations fivefold.

The Malaysian firm's Fund V was generating 8% net IRR as of September last year.

The $10m loan will support National Fisheries Developments’ addition of a new vessel as part of ongoing efforts to increase employment in the South Pacific nation of 635,000 people.

The A$120m deal by Archstone Investment, an agri investment firm owned by the Hui family, comes less than a year after the failed sale to another Chinese investor.

The PSP Investments portfolio company is facing criticism from environmental groups after an equipment failure at a Washington State facility containing 305,000 Atlantic salmon, resulted in many of the fish escaping into Pacific waters.

Backed by the US firm’s $70m Brazil Renewables Fund, the $115m project is the first of ‘multiple plants’ Summit intends to build within the next two years.

Ruud Schers, a lead author of a recent Rabobank report examining overseas agricultural acquisitions by Chinese companies, tells Agri Investor they are motivated by a mixture of economic and political goals.

Paine Schwartz Partners’ UK-based portfolio company’s acquisition adds about 100 local farmers to its network of suppliers.

Riverside Lobster International president David Deveau tells Agri Investor that the he expects Champlain will use the company as its platform to build a larger position in the Canadian seafood industry.