The UK-based DFI is keen to invest into African and South Asian food processing businesses as it develops its direct investment platform.
Hong Kong’s Orion Partners wants to add agriculture to its investment offerings by partnering with expert GPs and strategic investors.
Under its new name AgCAP, the firm has hired a new management team to take the asset management business in a different direction.
The JV between the Russian and UK firms has started talking to institutional investors and is raising capital for Eastern European Union investments.
Fund II will open up investment to new parts of the Eastern European region and offer a shorter investment period.
A loan by the European Investment Bank will underpin Slovakia’s first Rural Development Programme.
The US public pension giant has committed $250m to a separate account managed by Wood Creek as well as $50m to ACM’s ‘permanent crops’ fund, which aims to raise $250m.
The two international organisations have launched a $19 million programme to assist smallholder farmers across the poverty-stricken country
The country’s largest superannuation fund has sold a 2.5 percent stake in Kaingaroa Timberlands.
The Nigerian government made two commitments to the fund that is targeting $100m to provide agribusinesses in the country with growth capital.