Louisa Burwood-Taylor
Wine exports increased by 1.9 percent in 2014 in both volume and value prompting debate on the value of the industry as an investment.
Inocucor Technologies, a company that produces yeasts and bacteria to improve the productivity of soil, seeds and plants, attracted venture capital investment to the round.
Agri is such a diverse sector with varying strategies and risk/return profiles that it is unlikely there will ever be one common fee structure – but consensus is decidedly moving away from the 2-and-20-style model.
The private equity arm of Cargill has closed two funds: Black River Agriculture Fund 2 on $587m and Black River Food Fund 2 on $700m.
The global agri fund manager has hired Shankar Athreya as head of farmland investments.
The foundation, established by the global payments giant, has launched a challenge fund to enable better access to finance among smallholder farmers.
Paul Vine, partner in the Amsterdam office of global legal practice at Norton Rose Fulbright, looks at the history of the Common Agriculture Policy and provides some thoughts on new policy's impact on agricultural investment.
Domaine Chanzy is raising £1.9m and will list the IPO on Seedrs, the UK fundraising platform, in a first for the industry.
Dutch pension fund PGGM has committed between €50 million and €100 million to Black River Food Fund 2, a private equity fund managed by the private equity subsidiary of US agribusiness Cargill.
Private equity firm One Thousand & One Voices has invested into RedSun Dried Fruit & Nuts through Africa Fund I.