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Rabobank’s latest half-yearly outlook for global aquaculture shows that salmon producers have much to look forward to, while the outlook for shrimp farmers is more challenging.

The Hong Kong-based firm has a food and ag portfolio that includes poultry businesses, ready-to-go food providers and a fast food chain.

Former Goldcrest and Fall Line Capital executives Tommy Funk and Thiago Lima have been brought in to take the farmland service provider’s suite of offerings into the Southeast and Southern Plains.

TPG’s Rise Fund III and Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s Climate Solutions Fund are two of the many climate vehicles closed in 2023 that have an allocation to food and natural assets.

Founder and managing partner Matt Leeds left his role as partner at L Catterton in 2022 to establish FCP, which raised the first-time fund within six months.

Real estate fund manager Centuria expects its open-end agriculture fund to become a A$1bn investment vehicle.

CAP managing director Jim Heyes says the team behind MozFibra has laid the business plans necessary to avoid the pitfalls of many past African forestry investments that did not put the required emphasis on market access logistics.

FIA managing director MaryKate Bullen says there has been a broadening of investor appreciation and understanding of the intrinsic value and climate benefits that working forests provide.

In 2023, the CEA market experienced a bit of a hangover.

The need to reduce emissions from food production presents challenges – but also opportunities. Tenacious Ventures’ Matthew Pryor and Sarah Nolet explain.