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The fund will focus on own-and-operate properties growing kiwi fruit, apples and wine grapes.

China Resources Ng Fung has also developed an agent and distribution business for imported foods in China, and will work with New Zealand company Scales to improve its position as an exporter tin the country.

After two years at the sovereign wealth fund, Geraldine Barlow is thought to be moving to another institutional investor.

Agri-Vie's management team will form EXEO Capital, develop new investment products and have a wider remit to invest Fund II.

The firm has also opened an office in Boston, which it says makes its fund the first independent food and agriculture fund with a presence in both Europe and America and the largest in Europe.

NMERB real assets senior portfolio manager Mark Canavan tells Agri Investor why he has invested in Ecosystem Investment Partners' mitigation banking vehicle, and what he thinks risk really is.

The pension is considering adding as much as $60 million to its agriculture allocation and eyeing Latin America.

Whether you are looking at funds, TIMOs or club deals, Aquila Capital portfolio manager Nils von Schmidt gives his take on forestry investment vehicles, who they are suited to and why.

Aquila Capital will hold a close on its forestry fund, Aquila Sachwert Basisfonds I, in the middle of the year, and is looking at satellite investments in Latin American countries like Uruguay.

Brazil had a record harvest, and Australian production also went up, but the US market will be faced by new challenges as demand for organic sugar increases.