Deals

Northwest FCS, a lender to agribusinesses, provided $115m in debt.

The frontier market firm has acquired a stake in Engage Resources to expand the business into Cambodia.

CMIA and China Merchants have completed a $23 million take-private of a Singapore-listed Chinese agriculture company.

The development finance institution has launched a private equity fund with the Indian bank to invest in the region’s SME sector.

The Singaporean sovereign wealth fund has taken a 20% direct stake in Godrej Agrovet, its second investment in the Godrej Group this year.

The $65m finance facility will be CDC’s first investment since its strategy change in September 2012.

The US firm has made its first investment in Australia, backing Victoria-based fruit and vegetables producer The Costa Group.

The Canadian fund manager has committed a $10m loan to the Jordan-India Fertilizer Company to finance construction of a new $186m plant in Jordan that will produce fertilizer for the Indian market.

Sierra Leone is forecast to become a “renewable energy hub” in Africa as seven organisations sign up to €133m of debt financing for an integrated renewable energy and agriculture project.

The private equity arm of Citigroup has made an all-equity minority investment in the livestock pharmaceuticals producer.