Private Equity

Costa listed on the Australian Securities Exchange on July 24 in the second-largest IPO in Australia so far this year.

Alliant Insurance Service acquired Todd Garibaldi Insurance Agency to strengthen agribusiness speciality with central California investment.

The fund has a dual stream revenue strategy consisting of investments in forest-linked agri crops and carbon credits from deforestation.

The agri-specialist PE firm will also reveal its first two investments within the next six months.

The $30m joint venture with Naturisa will invest in an Ecuadorian shrimp feed facility.

Hemendra Mathur, a managing director at Small Enterprise Assistance Funds’ India Investment Advisors, highlights the three fundamentals investors into food services businesses in the country must bear in mind.

Agri-Vie’s Avril Stassen about agri opportunities across the value chain in sub-Saharan Africa.

The Silicon Valley-based private equity and real estate firm – whose assets include more than 7,000 acres of California almond orchards – is raising its fourth agriculture-focused fund.

Two start-ups will receive $50,000 each at the end of the programme, which counts Omnivore Partners, Rural Agri Ventures and Aspada Investments as strategic and financial partners.

The UN body's report suggests $267bn of extra investment a year is necessary to lift an estimated 800 million out of poverty.