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Sustainable agriculture can promote healthier and more diverse farmland ecosystems alongside enhanced efficiency and profitability, write Manulife Investment Management’s Brent McGowan, Holly Evers and Oliver Williams.
More than simply a way of reducing risk, prioritizing sustainability can be a vehicle for value creation, say Roc Partners’ Michael Lukin, Brad Mytton, Frank Barillaro and Sam Bayes.
Vertical farming offers major environmental benefits.
The acquisition is the first step in the buildout of The Flavour Farm, a European indoor ag play that will incorporate renewable energy assets as a core growth strategy.
Participants at the Future Food-Tech Alternative Proteins conference in New York drew encouragement from the USDA's approval of cultivated chicken while examining challenges and opportunities across a diverse set of markets.
Move comes ahead of potential intervention by regulatory agencies.
The insurer has launched a €100m strategy to invest in up to 25 biomethane plants across Spain over a five-year period.
‘There isn’t resistance out of principle’ from Australian superfunds to investing in agriculture, but barriers remain, says CEFC’s Heechung Sung.
Proterra’s Fund V has already acquired two farms in the US and will primarily target assets in the Midwest, Pacific Northwest and southern states.
CDPQ's Nicolas Leyssieux and CEFC's Heechung Sung set out how the unusual deal to establish a farmland investment platform while taking an equity stake in Gunn Agri Partners came about.