Louisa Burwood-Taylor
The New Zealand dairy fund manager is expecting to close on just over NZ$200m, concluding four years of fundraising.
The private equity firm is again backing agribusiness in China with a view to improving food safety, having purchased a stake in Fujian Sunner, a vertically integrated chicken meat producer.
The Macquarie/MD Sass JV will target $750m for its third agri debt fund and is also plotting its first pure private equity fund.
OpenAir Equity Partners led a Series B round attracting repeat investors and one new investor into FarmLink, an agtech company developing a yield benchmarking service for farmers.
'I'd rather invest directly' one LP was overheard telling GPs at our latest ‘Last Thursday’ networking drinks, which attracted investors from the US and Europe and represented projects from Eastern Europe, Latin America and Australasia.
Zambia’s biofuels industry is gathering momentum as the country’s stability, access to resources and alternative fuel demand makes it an attractive investment destination, according to a local banker.
Asia Plantation Capital may list its investment management business and its own forestry assets but some $500m of third-party AUM would remain private.
UK-based forestry and wind farm asset manager FIM has reopened fundraising and is expected to hold a final close on roughly $108m in November.
Family office capital can provide an important stepping stone for agri investment projects, particularly in the start-up phase, ahead of an institutional build-out.
In the fourth in the series, Geoff Burke, co-founder of Agro-Ecological, explains how regenerative agriculture techniques are intrinsic to the firm's approach to farming in New Zealand.