Van Lanschot Kempen’s SDG Farmland Fund, a global institutional investor focused on natural capital strategies and real estate, has acquired Panasqueira, a 400-hectare irrigated olive growing operation located in Faro do Alentejo, Portugal.
Landa, vehículo de inversión alternativa gestionado por Bankinter Investment y Nuveen, ha cerrado la compra de una nueva finca de cítricos de aproximadamente 250 hectáreas ubicada en la provincia de Huelva. El fondo ha levantado 138 millones de euros para invertir en tierras agrícolas de España y Portugal.
Pese a la ofensiva arancelaria de Donald Trump, el sector agrícola de España y Portugal sigue acaparando el interés de los fondos nacionales e internacionales, a los que se ha sumado un actor especialmente relevante: Farmland Reserve, una compañía de inversiones dependiente de la Iglesia mormona que se alza como el quinto mayor propietario institucional de tierras agrícolas de Estados Unidos, con cerca de 690.000 hectáreas en el país norteamericano.
COAG expone en un informe que el proceso por el que los agricultores pasan de trabajar sus tierras a ser empleados de grandes empresas contribuye a un descenso en el 59% de las explotaciones.
“Probably the biggest growth is in working with large institutional investors at large pension funds and insurance companies, and also some quite large family offices,” which manages over 300,000 ha of farmland and timberland in the US, Europe and Australia.
The farmland in Portugal will be acquired from Borges Agricultural & Industrial Nuts, one of the largest nut processing companies in Spain.
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan portfolio now includes 130,000 acres of agricultural land globally, from apple orchards to row crop farmland and aquaculture assets, in Australia, Chile, Canada, the US and Portugal
The Regenerate European Sustainable Agriculture Fund will invest €40 million to establish blueberry farms in Central and Southern Portugal under the name Regen Blue
Surexport is a leading fully-integrated producer of strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries with land in Spain, Morocco, Portugal, and Kenya
Surexport has just announced its completion of three acquisitions: Portuguese raspberry producer Solana; Moroccan blueberry producer AG Group; and Spanish producer of organic berries Flor De Doñana.
Fiera Capital, fondo de inversión canadiense, está muy cerca de cerrar la compra de la empresa española Innoliva con sus 8.000 hectáreas en España y Portugal, principalmente en las regiones de Extremadura y el Alentejo.
Agriculture is being flagged as the replacement for residential property investments following changes to Portugal's Golden Visa programme, with investors urged to look towards funds such as Pela Terra and Terra Nova.
