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CEFC backs agriculture investment platform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... Corporation (CEFC) and a Canadian state investment manager have co-invested in a platform aimed at assisting Australian farmers at decarbonising while boosting farm production. CDPQ (Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec) has invested $150 million ...

Labor's five step plan for biodiversity

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... restoration. The Nature Repair Market will "make it easier to connect people that want to invest in nature repair with farmers and other landholders," including First Nations landholders. Plibersek also noted that businesses who wish to trade with Europe ...

Fund Manager round up: Maple-Brown Abbot, Brookfield, Cultiv8

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... networks to offer a low-cost, easily installed range-extending Wi-Fi technology to users in areas of poor coverage, such as farmers who want to use digital technology to transform the way they run their businesses, Cultiv8 said. "In Australia and across ...

Leading Harvest launches Australian ag sustainability standard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... sustainability verification and reporting across the agriculture industry with the aim of "resolving inefficiencies faced by farmers, producers, and customers in providing sustainability assurances that the market demands." The standard is built around ...

Mike Cannon-Brookes, CEFC back biosequestration startup

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
... Ventures and the CEFC among others. Loam has developed a microbial inoculum - an introduced biological material - which farmers will use to coat their seeds before sowing. The microbial inoculum works with the plants to sequester carbon. "Loam's microbial ...

Global food systems at risk: Barclays

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 JAN 2023  |  NEWS
... will become a persistent problem going forward. "You can invest in additional automation, but when we look at low-income farmers in geographies like Asia, Africa, that's where they have a younger population to offset that. It is very hard to change the ...

New Forests launches ANZ forestry and agriculture fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2022  |  NEWS
... there are 380 million hectares of arable land versus 2 million of land used for sustainable wood plantation purposes. "Farmers say that around 10% of their arable land is underused or unproductive, so that's nearly 40 million hectares," Rogers said. ...

Twiggy Forrest invests in Ukraine's post-war green future

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
... funding the first humanitarian grain shipment out of Ukraine in August, and providing critical grain storage facilities for farmers.

Cultiv8, Fidante launch agriculture, food tech fund

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
... opportunities," he explained. "We cultivate these management teams and companies by integrating the expertise of researchers, farmers, investors and global corporate partners to digitise agriculture and contribute to a sustainable future." Quigley and ...

HSBC funds blue carbon projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2022  |  NEWS
... Federal, Queensland and South Australian governments. The fund will establish the mechanisms required to provide income to farmers as they allocate some of their coastal landholdings towards the generation of blue carbon credits. HSBC is exploring the ...

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