Private Equity

The Los Angeles-based cannabis investor has launched its second fund shortly after closing its first vehicle below its original $100m target.

With the Brazilian cattle market hit by scandal, investors should look to its South American neighbor Paraguay for a resilient growth story, says Roberto Vitón, managing director at Valoral Advisors.

The Rise Fund's Joy Basu talks about the sourcing relationship between the fund and the wider TPG platform and where agriculture fits within the fund’s broader impact focus.

South Dakota-based Novita Nutrition has begun commercial level production of NovaMeal and NovaOil, its animal nutrition products derived from a corn ethanol-production byproduct.

The fund should back private sector fund managers and speed the commercialization of emerging agri tech and practices in the country.

The $30bn pension has committed $75m to a food-focused fund managed by KKR spin-out Butterfly Equity.

Scale and predictable returns are key to increasing institutional investment into agriculture, LPs at Agri Investor’s Australia Forum said.

Private equity can respond to consumer demand by helping encourage adoption of new technologies and conversion of conventional farmland to organic production, according to Rabobank.

Investors in the Kansas-based commodity trading and transportation company include Chinese private equity firm New Hope Group and Australian real assets giant Macquarie.

A vehicle focused on the purchase of farmland in Brazil from the Cargill spin-out has reached a $100m first close and has a target of $500m.