CIO Craig Tashjian says Brazil has seen a significant uptick in M&A activity in the fertilizers, biostimulants and sugarcane markets.
Fiera Comox lays out the roadmap to deal execution with Indigenous groups; Agri Investor Global Awards 2024 open for submissions; how Farmland Partners’ $289m portfolio sale to Farmland Reserve materialized; Forestry-Linked Securities looks to exit its portfolio via securitization; NZ Super Fund appoints co-CIOs, and more. Welcome to Field Notes, the start-of-the-week briefing for our valued subscribers only. Tips and feedback to: binyamin.a@pei.group.
The Agri Investor Global Awards are changing. As we launch our call for submissions for our fourth annual awards, you need to be aware of the updates we have made to the awards process.
We speak to Fiera Comox head of natural capital Jeff Zweig about what it takes to win trust and structure deals with Indigenous groups.
Farmland Partners chairman Paul Pittman says The Church of Latter-Day Saints affiliate Farmland Reserve was more interested in buying row crop assets than permanent crops.
Forestry-Linked Securities wants to shake things up with a different approach to exiting its forestry portfolio with an asset securitization.
Ben Vitale says his role will focus in part on commercial agreements to monetize regenerative practices which the firm has had in place since its 2014 founding.
The firm has a long-term target of securitizing its forestry assets around the 10-year mark as an exit strategy for its private investments.
Macdoch eyes growth agtech VC funds; El Salvador completes $1 billion DFN swap for the Lempa River; Australian farmland values rise as transaction volumes fall; Earth’s water systems are in danger says Global Commission on the Economics of Water; New Zealand is set to relax its overseas investment policy, and more. Welcome to Field Notes, the start-of-the-week briefing for our valued subscribers only.
The venture arm of Prue Murdoch and Alasdair MacLeod’s agri-food focused investment group Macdoch is eyeing later-stage fund investments.