From real assets funds of funds to vertically integrated agribusiness offerings – fund managers are responding to investors' diversification needs.
Farmland Partners, a US-based REIT, listed on the New York Stock Exchange in April after raising $49.5m. Here, Luca Fabbri, chief financial officer, secretary and treasurer, tells Agri Investor about the journey.
Gaining investment exposure to UK farmland is near impossible. But issuing loans to UK farmers provides access and enables investors to do some good, argues Robert Bourn, partner at Agri Partners.
Agri Partners and Caribbean Sustainable Agriculture are making use of debt - should more agri investment firms follow their lead?
Baring, BlackRock and Focus Investment Banking discuss the appeal of the precision agriculture sector and the limited opportunity in the listed market.
The creation of a Rs 100 crore ($16.6m; €12m) agtech investment fund does not go far enough to support the sector but alongside other agri initiatives is a step in the right direction, according to private equity professionals.
There is a disconnect between fund return projections and what can actually be achieved, argues Marcus Elgin, executive chairman of Australia's AAGIM.
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.
Cibus Farmland Club wants to raise between €50 million and €100 million over the next two years and will supervise the improvement of leased-out land in the country.
Sluggish deal activity has frustrated GPs in China, so can the same investment thesis that worked for the milk sector also work for meat?