The farmland strategy has swung wholesale from being almost exclusively a closed-end play to an open-end strategy – but its evolution is far from over.
The 2021-vintage fund has been backed by a host of DFIs and has struck long term carbon credit deals with tech giants Microsoft and Meta.
Farmland’s resilience amid inflation and high interest rates has increased the interest among Canadian institutions, says vice-president of investments Daniel Bacon.
We take a look inside Ceres Partners' 17-year-old open-end farmland fund as we kick off our three-part Deep Dive into the investment strategy; Pymwymic and Intudo take $195 million across three respective funds; Trafigura partners with Temasek’s GenZero on nature-based solutions, and more. Welcome to Field Notes, the start-of-the-week briefing for our valued subscribers only.
Senior consumer foods analyst Tom Bailey says baked goods, packaged fruits, bars and impulse ice creams are all among categories with potential for expansion.
In the first installment in our deep dive into buy-and-lease farmland strategies, we take a close look at one of the oldest open-end farmland funds in the market.
The amount of agricultural land with some level of foreign ownership fell by just 0.3% in 2023, far less than the 10% fall seen in 2022.
The deal with Rayonier marks the asset manager’s first forestry investment in the US South.
Investment is needed now to bring a new breed of crops to the agricultural value chain, says Dr Tarifa Alzaabi, director general of the UAE’s International Center for Biosaline Agriculture.
The use of catalytic capital to mobilize private sector investment has 'hardly met expectations;' that may be about to change.