Royal London Asset Management is taking a controlling interest in South Yorkshire Pension Authority’s 20,000-acre UK farmland portfolio with a view to extending the use of sustainable farming methods.
Lissy Smit, CEO of sustainable aquaculture impact investment fund Aqua-Spark talks to Impact Investor about fundraising, the sector’s first unicorn and why it is launching a new Africa fund.
The private credit fund has received €20m from the European Investment Fund to support agricultural SMEs looking to decarbonise their businesses in Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Portugal.
The Swedish private equity impact investor has added STIM to its portfolio of investments aimed at boosting sustainable food production, at a time when investor interest in aquaculture is on the rise.
UK-based impact investor Bridges Fund Management has announced its second investment exit of 2024, with the sale of a supplier of plant-based foods to private equity firm NVM.
A new venture capital firm co-founded by Henry Dimbleby, a British food campaigner and co-founder of the natural fast food chain Leon, aims to make food production more sustainable.
The project seeks to increase agricultural output in one of Africa’s poorer countries by increasing supply of green ammonia to make fertilisers more widely available.
Zebra Impact Ventures is investing in precision farming, alternative nutrition, and food waste. Christopher Walker talks to co-founder Lionel Artusio-Payot about the firm’s investment approach and strategy for the future.
The fund has invested in Rift Labs, a lighting company helping to increase crop yields and reduce water consumption and pesticide use, and Looping, a company tackling transport plastic packaging waste.
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