The $10bn Russian Direct Investment Fund is exploring opportunities for co-investment across the country’s agribusiness value chain.
The Lagos-based private equity firm has bought a catfish and tilapia fisheries facility in Nigeria as it plans to invest more into the agribusiness sector.
The new commitment by the Washington State Investment Board was approved at an April board meeting and takes its total commitment to agri to $650 million.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development invested €871m into the agribusiness sector in 2013, including €60m in commitments to the southern and eastern Mediterranean region.
Some Australian forestry assets on the market are being priced at around 50 percent lower than 10 years ago as the typical life cycle of trees bought in the early 2000s comes to an end.
The New York-based global private equity firm has bought a stake in QC Corporation, the North American supplier of ferrous sulphate products.
Arcadia Biosciences, a California-based biotechnology company, will use the proceeds to accelerate product developments. Existing investors committed extra capital during the Series D round.
The US buy-and-lease investment manager has bought a 318 acre farm in South Minnesota and hired an investment analyst, taking the permanent team up to four.
The venture capital fund's investment represents the first institutional round of fundraising for AbCelex, which is working on a replacement to antibiotics for meat animals.
The land will be managed by the same team that handles similar land in the same part of Victoria, Australia for AgCAP, investment manager of the Sustainable Agriculture Fund.