Real Assets

Rising demand signals rising prices, but unpredictable weather puts growers at risk, according to an investor and former coffee trader.

The firm will develop plantations and invest in timber processing in Angola's Planalto region.

With slower than expected exits from its first Indian Agribusiness fund, the impact investment firm has indefinitely postponed plans for a $150m follow up.

The Dutch pension fund manager's private markets CIO is to join the direct investment arm of the French insurance giant as global head of its real assets private equity division.

Willowood USA will use the investment from speciality buyout firm Lariat to expand operations of its post-patent agri inputs business.

The acquisition by the Cooke group marks the second attempt by P&P to sell off the seafood company, after a previous agreement fell through last autumn.

The acquisition of 51,700 acres of South Carolina timberlands brings the REIT's total timber holdings to nearly half a million acres.

The USDA has licensed the fund to receive equity investment from the US Farm Credit System to invest in small food and agri businesses.

A mix of strategic and venture investors plan to build faculty research at seven US universities into digital, biotech and genomics agri companies.

Ventura Foods will take on assets from Cargill's facilities in Ohio, Georgia and Florida.