Louisa Burwood-Taylor
Australia’s agriculture industry is courting foreign investment – but domestic institutional investors should be stepping up, too.
The $10bn Russian Direct Investment Fund is exploring opportunities for co-investment across the country’s agribusiness value chain.
The time is right to be investing into China’s agriculture industry as the Chinese government pushes for better food quality and higher yielding food production.
The timberland asset management firm is aiming to close its Eco Products Fund for the first time during the third quarter of this year.
Wildlife Works Carbon is raising $15m in its second round of financing for a Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation project in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
A new caste of agri funds, managed by agriculture professionals alongside finance experts, should help to restore the reputational damage done by the investment banker-led agri funds of years past.
Investment interest in agriculture technology is growing but whether it translates into actual commitments is still an open question, says Ron Meeusen, managing partner at Cultivian Sandbox Ventures.
The firm's Agricultural Funds Management team reportedly extracted confidential information by posing as a family office in an email to a competitor, according to The Australian Financial Review.
The African agriculture asset management firm is currently fundraising for integrated farming projects in Ghana, Senegal and Nigeria, looking to invest into soybean and other farms.
The Danish government will invest Kr40m into the new agriculture private equity fund and hopes to attract a further Kr800m from local pension funds and other private investors.