Private Equity

The investment in Phoon Huat comes a year after SCPE ploughed $52m into restaurant chain Crystal Jade Group Holdings.

Managing partner Duncan Owen says that significant investment in food and processing will help growth at the African farm gate, and that as interest increases more exits are becoming available.

The NZ$30bn superannuation fund says there is a 'shortage of good investment opportunities' and it is taking on less risk than a year ago.

Depressed commodity prices could be brought down further by Brexit market turmoil, meaning lower farmland values but better entry opportunities for investors, said USAG board chair Howard Halderman.

The firm's first fund is now 80 percent invested, having bought a series of agribusinesses companies and consolidated them.

We're taking the temperature of LPs, GPs and service providers, including agri, forestry and food investors, on what will happen following the UK's vote to leave the EU.

The bank's senior consumer foods analyst John David Roeg explains the implications of EU trade deals, and why investors into UK food will have put deals on hold.

The commitment to Conservation Forestry Capital Fund IV is the New Mexico Education Retirement Board's second investment with the firm, following a $25m investment with Fund II.

The strategy, which would need $400bn over the next 10 years, will co-ordinate and attract increased investment by looking at value chains and helping to reduce risk for investors.

As agricultural investment in emerging markets grows, Mark Eckstein, environment and social director at development finance institution CDC, explains why it is vital to plan around ESG issues and how investors should go about it.