Agri Investor | Forestry and agriculture private equity
Oct 7, 2024 · LPs are increasingly expecting their sustainable agriculture plays – including carbon sequestration – to generate attractive returns, say Roc Partners’ Brad Mytton, Frank Barillaro and Sam Bayes. Agri Investor covers private investment in farmland, forestry, agriculture and food technology, processing, storage, water and agribusinesses.
News & Analysis - Agri Investor
30 September 2024. The AFF 20 reveals the biggest agri-food and forestry fund managers; BTG’s LatAm reforestation strategy takes a $55m commitment; Britain’s Crown Estate acquires a 2,552-acre rural asset; Mombak sells 50,000 carbon credits to Google; ING’s five lessons for adapting farming to climate change, and more.
Homestead adds FarmTogether exec | Agri Investor
3 days ago · Homestead Capital has hired a founding team member of online farmland investing platform FarmTogether to be its head of investor relations as the firm expands its exposure to agricultural credit.. New York-based David Chan announced on LinkedIn earlier this month that he had joined Homestead in August. His profile shows that previously, Chan held positions with SLM Partners, Prudential ...
Sustainable Agri Investing Report
Jul 2, 2024 · Agri Investor. Sustainable Agri Investing Report. Food and agriculture are now the next largest and fastest growing sustainable investment themes after the energy transition. But as farmers’ protests around the world and cases of targeted anti-ESG pushback have shown, the sustainable agriculture movement has new, highly politicized challenges ...
Macquarie’s $325m green fertilizer play | Agri Investor
Nov 6, 2023 · Macquarie Asset Management’s October investment into Swiss green nitrogen company Atlas Agro was prompted by an ongoing revaluation of what constitutes an infrastructure asset.. The asset manager, which has substantial infrastructure and agriculture portfolios, deployed capital from its GIG Energy Transition Solutions Fund – which has a $2 billion target that is expected to be reached in ...
Agribusiness holds off inflation with pricing prowess
Inflation in western economies peaked in 2022 with the EU registering a high of 11.5 percent, while the US peaked at 9.1 percent and the UK hit a 41-year high of 11.1 percent.. The situation began to ease in 2023 following an unbroken series of interest rate hikes by central banks, but how was business growth and profitability impacted by the turbulence?
Agri Investor Fundraising Reports
Jul 29, 2024 · Agri Investor’s Fundraising Reports track the natural asset capital raising market and analyze the trends impacting LP commitments to private funds. The data presented in our report counts the final closes of all closed-ended funds and vehicles dedicated to agrifood and forestry. The numbers also take into account separate accounts and co ...
Agtech: 2022 in review | Agri Investor
Dec 22, 2022 · Possibly the defining event of 2022 was the spike in commodity prices resulting from the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Natural gas and grain prices soared, reinforcing the imperative of innovation to address supply chain pressures. Growers began exploring alternatives to nitrogen-based fertilizers, which saw a 3x run-up in prices.
Fundraising stabilizes in 2023 to hit $8bn - Agri Investor
Feb 7, 2024 · Fundraising for unlisted agri-food and forestry vehicles stabilized in 2023 as the market took $8 billion during the calendar year, up from $5.9 billion in 2022, according to Agri Investor data.. Taken in tandem with the whole-year figures for 2021 ($9.5 billion) and 2020 ($8.7 billion), 2022 has emerged as the poorest fundraising year over the past five years (the market took $9.3 billion in ...
Impact Investing in Agriculture | Special Report - Agri Investor
Jan 22, 2024 · 2023. Impact investing in agriculture may have been slow off the mark – investors have only recently taken an interest – but this expanding sector has a key role to play in reducing emissions, improving food security and strengthening livelihoods. Our 2023 special report looks to explore the developing landscape further.