Emerging Markets

The Seattle-based global coffee chain is proving $2m to an Inter-American Development Bank program providing loans to female smallholder coffee farmers in the South American nation.

The Albanian subsidiary of Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo and Romanian bank Raiffeisen are the latest to join the scheme.

The organizations highlighted their own efforts to enhance returns on private agricultural investments and predict a more prominent role for government-led investments in their outlook through 2026.

Bo Masole and Zee de Gersigny, co-founders of Victus Global Capital, talk to Agri Investor about their vision behind the impact investment firm and the $50m agri fund they’re raising.

The Vietnam-focused private equity firm is selling its shares in Vietnamese crop chemicals company Loc Troi in a listing that will value the company at $200m.

The Enhanced Smallholder Protection Programme will look to encourage Zambia’s 61,000 smallholder farmers to transition from subsistence to market-oriented agriculture.

Agro Merchants Group says the deal underscores the importance of Poland and Eastern Europe as key markets poised for expansion.

The Africa-focused investor has completed the acquisition of the Danish sawn timber producer as it moves to scale up its agri and forestry exposure.

Agriculture is among the target sectors for Horizon Capital’s Emerging Europe Fund III, designed to support export industries in Ukraine and Moldova.

The transaction marks the first exit for the firm’s Agri-Vie Fund I, which invested $4 million in the South African company in 2009.