15 Minutes With… Scott Reaves, Director of Forest Operations at Domain Timber Advisors
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone and Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media Timberland is rapidly gaining credibility as a prime alternative investment for gaining environmental, social, and governance (ESG) benefits for portfolios. It also offers a distinct level of portfolio diversification that generates low-volatility, risk-adjust
Read moreThe Opportunities and Challenges of International Trade in Agriculture
Contributed content from Weiyi Zhang, Ph.D., Senior Agricultural Economist, Manulife Investment Global agricultural production has benefited from expanded international trade for more than two decades. Robust trade networks have connected the demand and supply of a plethora of agricultural products across international borders. Global effo
Read more15 Minutes With… Michael Shoemaker, CEO of Vayda
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media Living roots and soil coverage, integrating livestock, reducing inputs, diverse crop rotations, and minimal tillage – all common practices that define regenerative agriculture. But how to identify the practices that make sense in a given context and implement them successfully? Aus
Read moreSLM Partners, Impact Ag Partners Launching New Australian Regenerative Ag and Carbon Fund
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Two of Australia’s leaders at the forefront of natural capital and real assets - SLM Partners and Impact Ag Partners - are partnering to launch the SLM Agri Carbon Fund - a new fund to invest in regenerative agriculture and carbon storage in Australia. Founded in 2009, SLM Partner
Read moreTrailhead Capital Closes Tech-Enabled Regenerative Food and Ag Fund at $50M
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Boulder, Colorado-based Trailhead Capital believes that regenerative agriculture is our greatest opportunity to improve planetary and animal health, the condition of the soil, and the human condition today, thereby making it an optimal channel for outsized returns for stakeholders.
Read moreDomain Timber Advisors Closes on $225M in Investor Commitments
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Private investment management services firm Domain Capital Group announced that its subsidiary Domain Timber Advisors has recently closed on $225 million in capital commitments across Domain’s value-added timberland investment strategy from sovereign wealth funds, public and private pensio
Read moreClimate Asset Management Completes Acquisition of 1,800 Ha. Macadamia Project
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Climate Asset Management (CAM) was formed in 2020 as a joint venture between HSBC Asset Management and Pollination, a climate change and advisory firm, with the goal of being the world’s leading asset management company fully dedicated to natural capital providing investment solutions that
Read moreFractal Agriculture Launches Investment Platform Taking New Approach to Farmland Equity Financing
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media U.S.-based Fractal Agriculture is launching a unique agricultural investment platform that takes a novel approach to address the pervasive challenge of gaps existing in farm financing. More than 40 percent of U.S. farmland is owned by people 65 and older. And as this population cont
Read moreEntire Operations of Mackay Farming Group, Australia’s Top Banana and Tropical Fruit Producer, For Sale
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media JLL’s Agribusiness team of Chris Holgar, Geoff Warriner, Clayton Smith, and Jock Grimshaw have been appointed to broker the sale of the entire farming operations of Mackay Farming Group - Australia’s largest banana and tropical fruit enterprise. Begun in 1945 by canecutter Stan
Read moreQIC Natural Capital Makes Second Acquisition – Packhorse Pastoral’s Stuart’s Creek
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) has agreed to acquire Stuart’s Creek, the last asset in the Packhorse Pastoral portfolio being sold following the tragic loss of Thomas Strachan, Packhorse’s co-founder and executive director, and his son Noah, and their pilot Garry Liehm, when the
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