Louisa Burwood-Taylor
RDIF and RCIF will be responsible for creating the cereal-focused fund and seeking capital from international investors. An experimental free trade zone in Heilongjiang province, China's biggest grain producing region, was also agreed.
Ecometrica, the sustainability, mapping and reporting software company, and Scotland’s Rural College have created the Biomass Market Assessment Service to model farm behaviour and energy crop production under different scenarios.
Iroquois Valley Farms has bought and leased a 177-acre farm in New York through its Young Farmer Land Access Program.
Private equity investors in Africa should look at improving farming infrastructure.
PensionDanmark's CEO expressed interest in the fund that will attract commitments from the private sector alongside a Kr500m ($75m; €67m) injection from the government.
The knowledge-based platform for farmers, which won World's Best Startup in 2014, is in talks with a variety of venture capital firms in Europe and the US about the capital raising round.
The drone producer and software platform has received new funding from venture capital firms including WestSummit Capital which led the top-up round after initially closing the Series C round on $50m.
Africa's agri sector needs government-led investment into basic infrastructure, and the continent is not growing at the rate it should be, said delegates at AVCA's conference.
The South African food and agribusiness private equity fund is targeting $175m overall and expects some repeat investors from its first $100m fund.
The Australian fund manager’s new multi-asset class agriculture fund is an innovative attempt to appeal to more pools of capital.