In April 2021, the Netherlands-based Kempen Capital Management (Kempen) launched the SDG Farmland Fund – a new investment solution to offer institutional investors global access to farmland as an asset class.
US-based Proterra Investment Partners has banked over $360 million selling 49 farms to 23 local buyers in Australia.
The Rohatyn Group (TRG), a New York-based asset manager with expertise in forestry, agriculture, and emerging markets, announced it had completed the sale of the Kaiuroo aggregation to RFM for an undisclosed sum.
Increased foreign ownership and corporatisation of agriculture makes farm ownership challenging for young families in Australia
Milltrust Agricultural Investments, which owns farmlands in Australia and New Zealand, has been acquired by UK-based Future Planet Capital.
US private equity firm Proterra Investment Partners, which owns significant farmland assets in Australia, says farmland investing is going strong, both among domestic and foreign investors
Cambodian families who were forcibly displaced by Phnom Penh Sugar Company have received a promised payment from Australia’s ANZ bank, which financed the sugar company from 2011-2014
A US institutional investor has awarded a US$50m mandate to Australian sustainable farmland manager Kilter Rural to invest in agriculture and water assets.
Van Dairy, formerly Moon Lake Investments and Van Diemens' Land Company before that, has attracted a lot of attention over its foreign ownership and farm operations.
Two Dutch insurance companies have invested in a fund buying farmland in Australia, Denmark, Portugal, New Zealand, and the US.
New Forests and Alberta Investment Management Corporation have agreed to buy Lawson Grains, which owns a 90,500 hectare agricultural land estate across New South Wales and Western Australia.
Australia’s second-biggest farmland investor has sold its Lawson Grains portfolio comprising 105,000 hectares of crop land in NSW and Western Australia to Sydney-based global forestry investment manager New Forests and Canada’s Alberta Investment Management Corporation.
