Rebecca Akrofie

The second Swedish pension fund is to audit its Brazilian farmland assets – part of its commitment to TIAA-CREF Global Agriculture LLP – to ensure they adhere to sustainability and corporate governance principles.

The Germany-based alternative asset manager has established a joint venture with New Zealand farm investment company, MyFarm.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is not often thought of in terms of investment potential. But John Ulimwengu, who advises the DRC government, lays out the country's opportunities.

The agribusiness panel at The Global African Investment Summit emphasised that commercial scale across the value chain is essential to investment on the continent.

The company’s biofuels business has been seeking equity financing since April this year.

The Colorado-based farmland investment firm has made nine new purchases and increased its debt capacity to $75 million.

ROC Partners is targeting Australian agriculture as its primary sector of investment.

Exposure to the right type of investors is the main challenge for agri asset managers when marketing their investment offerings, according to a recent poll of Agri Investor readers.

Aquila Capital, the German fund manager, has made the second investment into its global timber fund.

The UK DFI is targeting African SMEs which will include agribusinesses.