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The Rural Energy for America Programme will provide grants and loans to rural small businesses to fund energy upgrades and help cut costs.
Inocucor Technologies, a company that produces yeasts and bacteria to improve the productivity of soil, seeds and plants, attracted venture capital investment to the round.
The open-ended sustainable aquaculture fund has invested $4m into a US biotech company and a tilapia producer in Mozambique.
Gotham Greens raised the Series B capital to expand the construction of its greenhouse projects into new cities.
The term sustainability has been tarnished by too many broad applications of it, according to a recent white paper by Promar International.
Investment managers and consultants share their experiences of 2014 and plans for 2015.
Mote Marine Laboratory, a non-profit research centre and aquarium, sold its sturgeon and caviar production operation to VC firm Southeast Venture Holdings last month. Here, Hayley Rutger, manager at Mote, talks about the commercial and investment potential in the sector.
Hampton Creek has raised $90m in a round led by Li Ka-shing's Horizon Ventures and Silicon Valley VC firm Khosla Ventures.
The private equity firm will invest at least $100m in Sundrop Farms from its $6bn Asia Fund II.
US venture capital firm Southeast Venture Holdings, has acquired a sturgeon and caviar production company.