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First State Super, the A$53bn Australian superannuation fund, has bought more than 4000 hectares of almond orchards and land across New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.
The Small Enterprise Assistance Fund (SEAF), the impact investment fund manager with investments in over 33 countries, is gearing up to launch a new $100m India-focused agri fund.
Chinese company Zoje Resources Investment has signed an agreement to lease 115,000 hectares of farmland in eastern Russia for $26m, a deal which could herald the start of increasing agricultural land prices in the country.
Australia’s cattle prices set a record high of 568 cents a kilogram on Monday as Australia’s largest privately-owned cattle business said that Australian cattle remains “cheap” and 6 dollars a kilo is achievable.
Stafford Capital Partners, which invests in timberland through funds of funds, has added global agriculture to its investment strategies, saying it intends to replicate its successful timberland model.
The project, whose backers include ex-Shell chairman Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, aims to raise $28m over the next two years.
The decade-long increase in US farmland prices had been tipped to come to an end, so the news last week that values had defied these predictions was received with surprise – and some scepticism.
China's agriculture industry has been challenged by a lack of economies of scale, low-tech farming techniques and broken value chains - but an even more fundamental issue is on the horizon.
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