Louisa Burwood-Taylor
Precision agriculture technology companies are growing in number. Focus Banking believes that at least one-third will be acquired in the next 12 months as the market consolidates.
Agricultural businesses hoping to attract institution investment and improve their production need to look beyond traditional valuation methods, argues David Krause.
Two high net worth individuals have made $1.5m in soft commitments for direct deals via Black Sea Agriculture.
The Africa Agriculture Trade Investment Fund has committed $25m for loans to be provided through South African lender BancABC.
Institutional investors may be increasingly attracted to funds touting operational agri expertise – but that doesn’t mean they should disregard buy-and-lease models, especially in developed markets like Australia.
Two brothers from Northern Queensland have set up National Land Lease (NLL), after selling 180,000 acres of family land to a corporate fund and leasing it back under a long-term contract.
Agriculture production has a part to play in climate change and agriculture professionals should work hard to reduce greenhouse emissions for their own sake as well as the world population, argues Peter Roney, a consultant at Cambridge Associates.
The agribuiness holding company has raised around $4m for its first project in Sierra Leone from investors including a US foundation and West African merchant bank.
The Singaporean investor has invested $41.5m into Star Agriwarehousing and Collateral Management, an Indian agri-supply chain company.
The diversified Latin American fund has $35m in soft commitments from family offices and is now being marketed to institutions as it works towards a $300m target.