Commodities

Toronto’s Area One Farms founder and CEO Joelle Faulkner talks through the fundamentals of regenerative ag and Canada’s transition challenges, such as a lack of suitable crop insurance.

Synthesis Capital – founded by two former VC investors at Jeremy Coller’s family office – has raised $300m for its debut alternative protein venture fund.

West coast permanent crop specialists Paul Frankel and Jeff Steen, partners at Kachina, consider the most viable options for institutional investors to reduce their California ag exposure.

The Japanese trust bank made its first timberland investment last year amid a trend that has now led to New Forests being acquired by Mitsui & co and Nomura.

The program has a goal of restoring 2m hectares of land across six African countries and will support 2m smallholder farmers by 2026.

One of the world’s largest forestry asset managers is now a Japanese company, a sign of timber’s growing attractiveness to LPs from the region.

Founded by Reuben Munger in 2008, Vision Ridge Partners seeks to deliver superior financial returns and positive environmental impact through investments in sustainable real assets.

The vehcile attracted investment from a wide pool of LPs including sovereign wealth funds, pensions and family offices as it hit its $175m target within three months of launching in 2021.

AACo is developing a framework to ‘measure and report’ natural capital from its vast landholdings in northern Australia, which it hopes will create new revenue streams beyond beef.

New Forests founder and CEO David Brand will remain with the firm until June 2025 and will focus on strategic initiatives and growth opportunities.