Private Equity

The African development investment firm is investing $1.8m into the scheme through its Silverlands Fund.

The UK's Aberdeen Asset Management has agreed to buy FLAG Capital Management in a deal that will double the assets managed by its private equity unit.

Consumer-focused private equity firm sells minority interest in organic meat company.

As more and more high profile names invest into agtech, questions have been raised about whether the sector is overheating.

The firm has already committed 21% of Stafford International Timberland VII’s $484 million and plans to open an office in Latin America in the third quarter.

SEDCO Capital's agribusiness private equity fund will soon make its first investment into non-land assets. It is targeting $150m by the end of the year.

Food and agriculture accounts for just 5 percent of the $60bn total of impact assets under management, according to a survey conducted by JPMorgan and Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN).

The association's global survey revealed that about 50% of LPs want to build their agribusines exposure in each emerging market region.

The Brazilian investment bank's Gerrity Lansing talks about investor quality, pipelines, Brazil's advantages and what's next for BTG Pactual.

The Indian agribusiness private equity fund manager is set to launch Fund II in the coming weeks after Fund I invested in Godavari Biorefineries this week.