Sustainability

San Francisco-based Plenty has raised $200m from Japan’s SoftBank Group and other high-profile investors in what it calls ‘the largest agriculture technology investment in history’.

The World Bank’s private sector arm will provide equity and debt as a part of an effort to encourage a shift away from inefficient, environmentally harmful agricultural fertilizers in China.

L3F, an impact fund backed by four major multinationals, will invest €2m in a project aimed at helping smallholder farmers triple their revenue while improving the quality of vanilla.

By acquiring the impact investment manager, Mirova intends to create a European platform dedicated to natural capital investing.

As head of sustainability and client engagement across Nuveen's real assets portfolio, Sanaz Raczynski will seek to improve the firm’s engagement with industry peers, investors, NGOs and others.

The investment seeks to capitalize on what the company sees as an 'inflection point' in both commercial and personal use of hydroponic equipment.

The $197bn sovereign wealth fund groups agriculture together with life sciences, technology and three other sectors that its says reflect a rebalancing in favor of long-term opportunities.

Two Dutch government-linked entities have collaborated to provide a $4m loan supporting efforts of smallholder farmers in northern Nigeria to boost yields and adapt to climate change.

Equipped with battery storage, the new facility will supply enough electricity to power a 40-hectare greenhouse.

An SEC filing recently revealed $35m in funding designed to support private equity-backed vertical farming business AeroFarms' plans to expand into the Middle East and Asia.