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The DFI recently established a Mediterranean and North African focus and is set to approve four new deals in the coming weeks.
The Swedish pension fund is considering committing more to Southern Pastures ahead of the fund’s planned final close in December.
Corporate and institutional venture investment into the water sector rose during the first half of 2014, according to i3, an online platform providing intelligence on innovation.
Farmland Partners, the listed US farmland investment firm, has hired Wade Harrison as farm manager to be based in Tennessee.
The private equity firm is again backing agribusiness in China with a view to improving food safety, having purchased a stake in Fujian Sunner, a vertically integrated chicken meat producer.
The Macquarie/MD Sass JV will target $750m for its third agri debt fund and is also plotting its first pure private equity fund.
Zambia’s biofuels industry is gathering momentum as the country’s stability, access to resources and alternative fuel demand makes it an attractive investment destination, according to a local banker.
The Chinese private equity firm has acquired a 20% stake in China’s Chery Heavy Industry.
Increasing numbers of fund management firms are popping up in the Central and Eastern European region, drawn by the cheap land on offer, according to an investment consultant at Towers Watson.
The US-focused farmland investment firm is beefing up its acquisition team after hiring Brett MacNeil as director of acquisitions. It is also looking for an investment analyst.