Climate

As climate change threatens us with more extreme weather conditions, Agri Investor editor Clare Pennington looks at global water-management challenges around the world.

A Stanford-led study offers new ways to measure crop growth from outer space.

The Department of Agriculture is providing $173m to finance small-scale renewable energy projects for rural businesses and farms.

For decades many have assumed that sustainable investing is an altruistic trade-off to more conventional investment/yield return strategies. But this is no longer the case, argues Jud Hill, managing partner at Blue Star Capital.

Fund II has acquired 18,500 acres across six properties in four transactions. Fund I is set to open again before the end of the year.

Many corporate and institutional investments into Australian agriculture have not performed well compared to the returns achieved by the family farm, argues David Cornish, principal at Cornish Consultancy.

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.

Venture capital-backed Sweetwater Energy secured a bridge loan ahead of establishing the company's first commercial biomass-to-biochemical conversion facility.

Ways to get access to this sub-sector of agri investment are growing as new regulations and methods to conserve natural habitats come into force in the US.

Zouk Capital has invested in UrbanWind, a firm that targets landowners, farmers, agribusinesses, and community groups and helps develop wind turbines backed by the UK’s feed-in-tariff scheme.