The agribuiness holding company has raised around $4m for its first project in Sierra Leone from investors including a US foundation and West African merchant bank.
The value of English farmland has gone from strength to strength in 2014, exceeding the £7,000 mark for the first time.
The Singaporean investor has invested $41.5m into Star Agriwarehousing and Collateral Management, an Indian agri-supply chain company.
The diversified Latin American fund has $35m in soft commitments from family offices and is now being marketed to institutions as it works towards a $300m target.
Burned by its first domestic investment, the Australian super fund will look for longer term, larger scale and more geographically diverse opportunities in the future.
Harvard's investment management arm has received a Forest Stewardship Council certification for its timberland plantations in Argentina in the same week that a student group is protesting its investment in the region.
The Australian investment manager has hired Michael Blakeney as investment director, taking the team to 15 people.
The development bank is now considering investing into the equity of agribusinesses, as well as providing loans to the sector.
Treedom Group also sees scope to work with institutional investors on processing Agarwood trees, which produce oud oil commonly used across the Middle East.
India's CropIn Technology Solutions has attracted investment from the $20m BSP Fund as well as Ankur Capital.