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Louis Dreyfus Company will use economies of scale to bolster the Namoi Cotton business while pursuing opportunities in northern Australian cotton.

Manulife Investment Management’s agreement with the Indonesia Investment Authority will focus on real estate investments initially, to support the country’s logistics sector.

The Compleat Food Group is on a mission to become the UK’s ‘number one chilled prepared food company.’

Agri-food and forestry funds rallied in H2 as significant closes at Paine Schwartz, Proterra and Brynwood Partners propelled capital raising.

The firm’s Fund II received a €20m commitment from the European Investment Fund.

Annual fundraising for 2023 has slotted into the 8.2bn five-year average as 2022 emerges as the market’s major slump-year since 2018.

The deal to delist Costa Group now only requires the formality of Foreign Investment Review Board approval to complete, with the firm set to become a private company again after listing in 2015.

The firm expanded its partnership with iCapital last year to include access to farmland investments through its open-end Global Farmland Fund.

The firm raised $945m across its secondaries and carbon strategies in 2023.

Ukraine’s EU accession negotiations started in December 2023 and membership would improve conditions for institutional investment, but those prospects must first surmount opposition from farmers already in the bloc.