Nora Zhou
An IFC-led syndicated loan provided $110m to a Cambodian bank to increase lending to rural businesses and a World Bank loan to Mozambique aims to boost the country’s efforts to increase access to food.
The US pension fund has invested in three funds since August including US Farming Realty Trust III, Paine & Partners Fund IV and ACM Permanent Crops fund.
The US DFI has committed $20m to Caspian Impact Investment, an Indian multi-sector social impact debt provider that includes food & agri in its remit.
ACAP, the private equity fund backed by the USDA and funded by the Farm Credit System, has made its second investment into a manufacturer and supplier of bulk herbs and botanical products from Missouri.
The US timberland investment manager is raising a non-US timber fund to focus on buying assets in Australia, Brazil, Chile, New Zealand and Uruguay.
Families own 97 percent of the 2.1 million farms in the US, according to the latest Census of Agriculture. This makes for a liquid farmland investment market, according to Paul Pittman, CEO of Farmland Partners.
Illinois farmland prices will decline between 1 percent and 5 percent in 2015 according to nearly 50 percent of respondents to a survey conducted by The Illinois Society of Professional Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers.
WISErg Corp, a waste management and organic fertiliser producer, has raised $11m in Series B funding in a round led by Second Avenue Partners, an early stage investment firm.
The venture capital firm recently closed Fund V on $537m and intends to invest one-third into agriculture with the remaining targeting healthcare opportunities.
The US development finance institution held a meeting with the Ukrainian Ministry of Agricultural Policy and Food to reaffirm its support for the country's agri sector.