Rebecca Akrofie

The Canadian retail fund house is raising another fund and expects to see demand from institutional investors alongside its usual retail clients.

The bodies’ joint annual agricultural report, the Agricultural Outlook, predicts that agriculture prices will continue to fall from recent peaks and will stabilise at pre-2008 levels on the back of increased production globally.

The Sri Lankan government recently announced the establishment of the Global Aquaculture Fund to boost investment into the industry.

Macro economic challenges have pushed aspiring dairy businesses to use M&A as a means of achieving their expansion goals, according to a recent report by Rabobank.

ADM’s high value acquisition of WILD Flavors, the Swiss-based food flavouring business partly owned by KKR, displays the big opportunities for private equity in agribusiness, according to Paine & Partners' president.

Interest in forestry investing has grown over the past five years, according to a range of forestry companies and consultants, although investor attention remains temperate.

The development finance institution has joined Dutch development bank FMO and GAFSP to invest $15m collectively into Malawi Mangoes.

The final close surpassed the African investment management firm's original target of $500m after the fund attracted demand from 40 investors.

Chinese dairy producer Huaxia Dairy Farm has received $106m from a consortium of investors in a fundraising round led by GIC and Olympus Capital Asia.