Sweden’s Nordluft Gains Backing for its Sustainable Forestry Drone Technology
Photo credit: EIT InnoEnergy By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Swedish startup Nordluft is securing new capital from Södra Ädla, Sweden’s largest forest-owners association and...
View ArticleFood Cycle Science Secures Funding to Stop Methane Food Emissions Before They...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Canada’s Food Cycle Science Corporation (FCS) has received institutional funding from Power Sustainable Lios (PSL), the sustainable agrifood investment...
View ArticleMexico-Based FARM Capital Makes First Round of Acquisitions
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Latin America currently accounts for 16 percent of the world’s total food exports, a figure that the UN FAO expects to increase to 25 percent by 2028....
View ArticleEel Farming is Heating up in Maine
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media U.S. Senator Angus King (I-ME) announced an award of $3.4 million from the Indigenous Animals Harvesting and Meat Processing (IAG) grant program –...
View ArticleAgriFutures growAG Hits A$150M, Launches in New Zealand
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Launched three years ago, AgriFutures growAG is an initiative of the Australian government through the AgriFutures Research and Development...
View ArticleBTG Pactual Timberland Executes Largest Known Carbon Credit Transaction...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (TIG) has announced a groundbreaking carbon offset credit transaction through which it will provide up to 8...
View ArticleIFC Backs Sustainable Insect Protein Startup ProNuvo to Boost Circular...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media As a means to spark the circular economy in Latin America and the Caribbean, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) has made an initial investment...
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15 Minutes With… Dr. Alyssa Whitcraft, Executive Director of NASA Acres
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Women in Agribusiness Summit (This interview is reprinted from our sister publication, Women in Agribusiness Today.) A geographer at heart with more than 15 years in...
View ArticleDownforce Technologies Raises $4.2M to Revolutionize Soil Organic Carbon...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The UN postulates that global climate, biodiversity, and land degradation goals will remain unmet unless investments in nature-based solutions more...
View ArticleBeZero Carbon Launches First Regen Ag Credit Rating System, Publishes First...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Despite being a contributor, agriculture is also one of the most vulnerable sectors to climate change. But regenerative growing practices, which work...
View ArticleInverness Graham Green Light Fund Targets My Yield for Third Investment
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Inverness Graham Green Light Fund has made its third investment, executing a major recapitalization for My Yield, a direct provider of specialty and...
View ArticleACCESS Pool Appoints Stafford Capital, J.P. Morgan as Timber Managers
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media ACCESS Pool, a £40 billion (US$50.56 billion) UK pension fund vehicle overseeing the pooled assets of 11 administering authorities consisting of a...
View ArticleLAWD Managing Sale of Proterra’s One Tree Portfolio, Expecting A$250M-Plus
Photo credit: LAWD By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media With expectations of attracting both domestic and global interest, LAWD is managing the sale of Proterra Investment Partners’...
View ArticleIDeA Agro Fund Completes Investment Cycle With Sicilian Citrus Fruit Deal
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media IDeA Agro, managed by DeA Capital Alternative Funds SGR and the first private equity fund in Italy to focus on agribusiness and farmland, has completed...
View ArticleUNCAGED Innovations Gains $5.6M Seed Funding for Alternative Leather From Grains
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media UNCAGED Innovations (UNCAGED), the world’s first leather alternative company making sustainable leather from grains at scale, has closed on an...
View ArticleCal-Maine Expands Egg Production Footprint in US Northeast with $110M Deal
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Cal-Maine Foods, the largest producer and distributor of fresh shell eggs in the U.S., is continuing to expand its national footprint with the...
View ArticleTall Grass Closes Inaugural Fund Oversubscribed at CAD$32M
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Canadian investment firm Tall Grass Ventures (TGV) announced the oversubscribed final close of its inaugural fund – Tall Grass Fund I – at CAD$32...
View ArticleHutanBio Expands Seed Round to £3M With Backing from UKI2S
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Indicative of decarbonization’s role in tackling climate change, HutanBio announced it has expanded its Seed funding to £3 million (US$3.84 million)...
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eAgronom Attracts €10 Million to Its Coffers Amid Sustainable Farming Push
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Estonia-based eAgronom, an agtech company specializing in climate technology, has attracted EUR 10 million to its coffers in a Series A2 equity round led by...
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Algeria Lands $455 Million Deal With Italy’s BF for Regenerative Ag Development
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media In what Bonifiche Ferraresi (BF) has dubbed “the most important Italian agro-industrial project on the Southern shore of the Mediterranean,” the nation of...
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