Nora Zhou
ADFD has issued a $50m loan to the Government of Montenegro to support agricultural development in the country.
Over 200 companies within the Grow Africa Partnership committed $10bn in investment to agriculture in 12 African countries in 2014, representing a 40% increase on 2013 commitment levels.
TIAA-CREF and its subsidiary, GreenWood Resources, have launched Global Timber Resources. Investors include Swedish pension AP2 and the Greater Manchester Pension Fund.
The USDA and Farm Credit System-backed PE fund has invested $5m into Hortau, a California-based precision irrigation company.
Though the recent values of Western Australian farmland make grim reading, the Rural Bank's general manager of agribusiness believes circumstances are right for "future prosperity".
Bayer CropScience partnered with the Australia-based Grains Research & Development Corp to develop innovative weed management solutions.
The fund will focus on investing into technologies across the agri value chain that specialise on healthy living and climate change adaptation.
The African development investment firm is investing $1.8m into the scheme through its Silverlands Fund.
The UK's Aberdeen Asset Management has agreed to buy FLAG Capital Management in a deal that will double the assets managed by its private equity unit.
Just two out of 11 countries researched in the region, Jordan and Oman, invest more than 1 percent of agricultural output in research, according to the International Food Policy Research Institute.