Nora Zhou

The US regenerative agriculture fund manager has hired Stephen Hohenrieder from Bio-Logical Capital and has certified another 120 acres as organic.

The US tech giant has invested into The Conservation Fund's Working Forest Fund to help conserve 36,000 acres of working forestland in Maine and North Carolina which will later be sold onto institutional investors.

A lack of investment by Ontario farmland landlords has sparked concern from the Ontario Federation of Agriculture after it conducted a survey of local tenants. But investment manager Bonnefield says the findings contradict other research and experience.

The World Bank finance institution invested $20m in the satellite imagery company to close its Series C round ahead of target.

Iroquois Valley Farms, a socially responsible farmland company, is raising the capital across both equity and debt in its fourth year of fundraising.

The US rapper contributed to the $10m Series A round of funding for Eaze, a San Francisco headquartered company.

The aquaponics company aims to target private individuals and family offices in its Series B round.

The sovereign wealth fund has created five open-ended funds targeting $1.4bn in total across five different sectors including agriculture and timber which are open to commitments from other investors.

The public pension fund will vote on the commitment on April 28 adding to a growing real return portfolio.

Farmland and agribusiness investment manager Teays River is set for $500m of new commitments after MainePERS approved a $200m commitment and Washington State Investment Board is set to vote on a further $300m later this week.