Impact investment firm Aurora Impact and the Savory Institute are launching the Future Ready Now project in June to attract investment into a grasslands restoration fund. Pension funds and sustainable clothing companies are among the attendees.
TIAA-CREF's second agriculture vehicle has raised over $1.7bn to date, reaching nearly 70% of its target.
Arlon Group acquired The Coastal Companies, a distributor and processor of fresh produce and dairy products in the mid-Atlantic region of the US with its $335m North America fund.
Guyana’s Carana Agribusiness is applying to the Overseas Private Investment Corporation for a loan.
TIAA-CREF and its subsidiary, GreenWood Resources, have launched Global Timber Resources. Investors include Swedish pension AP2 and the Greater Manchester Pension Fund.
The fund will focus on investing into technologies across the agri value chain that specialise on healthy living and climate change adaptation.
Social impact investor AgDevCo has established the Lending for African Farming Company with the German development bank and debt provider Root Capital to provide sub-Saharan African farming enterprises with reliable access to finance.
DJI and Accel Partners have launched the $10m SkyFund to invest in drone start-ups and more broadly across robotics and intelligent machines. Airware's Commercial Drone Fund follows suit.
LPs are raising the stakes on GPs’ responsible investment policies. Managers that haven’t yet responded will need to do so soon, including smaller ones with limited budgets, argues Kelly Holman, senior reporter at Private Equity International in New York.
The precision agriculture data management tool provider will use the funding to help expand its operations in Russia, Brazil, Australia and the US.