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Sandon Capital to buy carbon farms

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2024  |  NEWS
An activist fund has lobbed a $11.6 million cash takeover bid for a majority stake in 30 Western Australian carbon farms. Carbon Conscious Investments (CCI) holds carbon property rights to nearly 17,000 hectares of Mallee trees plantation in the WA ...

Investment opportunities in a changing global food system

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... convergence of diets globally, as emerging and frontier markets increase consumption of animal proteins, dairy products, wheat, oils, and sugar. While this convergence offers opportunities for increased food transportation and reliance on food imports ...

Global food systems at risk: Barclays

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 JAN 2023  |  NEWS
... noting that "in 2021, 36 out of 55 countries with food crises depended on Ukraine and Russia for more than 10% of their total wheat imports, while some obtained almost the entirety of their wheat from them." "We expect food prices to remain elevated ...

CEFC in $50m agri-platform investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation has invested $50 million towards a sustainable farming platform aimed at using data-driven practices to make farms more productive and resilient to climate change. The CEFC made the allocation to the Transforming ...

Q&A with Pablo Berrutti on launch of Altiorem

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
Pablo Berrutti is a senior investment specialist, Sustainable Funds Group, at Stewart Investors. He moved to his position earlier this year after working as head of responsible investment, Asia Pacific at Colonial First State Global Asset Management ...

Australian grain industry poised for export gains: ANZ

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... demographic shifts and continued drought conditions in Australia could drive Australia's grain industry to increase its global wheat exports to AU$7 billion by 2030, according to ANZ. Michael Whitehead, ANZ Bank's sector head of food, beverages and agribusiness ...

New national law for co-ops and mutuals to cut red tape

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
The new Co-operatives National Law (CNL) will reduce regulatory costs and simplify financial reporting for co-ops and mutual, according to the Business Council for Cooperatives and Mutuals (BCCM). Melina Morrison, BCCM CEO (Photo courtesy of BCCM) CNL ...

75% of ASX100 exposed to corruption in high-risk countries

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... exposure. There are always going to be broader implications." The report points to grain marketing organisation The Australian Wheat Board (AWB) as an example. In 2005, AWB was found to have been involved with illegal payments to the Iraqi government ...

Mercer expands ESG consulting capability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011  |  NEWS
... signatory to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment. Prior to that, he was company secretary at the Australian Wheat Board. "In this investment environment, clients are particularly interested in the specialist advice that Mercer can ...
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