Louisa Burwood-Taylor
Attracting investment into Africa is not straightforward and there is no clear solution. But appealing to DFIs is a good place to start; the institutions will follow eventually.
Omnivore Partners, the Indian venture capital firm focusing on agtech, has invested into Mitra, a machinery company. The firm's Fund I is now 50 percent deployed.
US crop land values slowed in growth between 2012 and 2013, increasing nearly 13 percent over the course of the year.
Khosla partner Andrew Chung explains the firm's approach to investing in agriculture and food technology companies and how it fits with the firm's overall objectives.
The venture capital and private equity firms invested $7.5m each into BioConsortia, a technology company that has developed a system to improve crop productivity.
Investing into the organic production of meat in Australasia is a sure way to meet China’s burgeoning demand for protein.
The UK-based forestry and wind farm asset manager is aiming to raise £25m and says the fund is getting interest from small institutional investors.
The livestock farm management company is set to invest into two local farms, alongside a range of high net worth individual investors.
The US-based asset management firm that handles the assets of the Kattegat Trust, a charitable trust, has bought a farm in Romania and is due to complete on a second.
Jacob Robbins, the former managing director of global sweeteners at Coca Cola, plans to establish projects across Asia, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, predominantly in bioenergy crops.