Posts Tagged ‘agriculture’
20 February 2012
US industry body the Agriculture Energy Coalition has welcomed the recent hearing from the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry on the 2012 Farm Bill, which could potentially help promote renewable energy in rural America.
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15 February 2012
A green chemicals company revealed to NewNet that it may look to carry out a listing on London’s AIM market to attract institutional investors.
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15 November 2011
US agricultural business the Archer Daniels Midland Company is set to build a 265 million litre biodiesel plant in Lloydminster, Canada, increasing the company's biofuel processing capacity in North America by 50 per cent.
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13 October 2011
US private equity heavyweight TPG Capital has partnered with the Italian engineering and chemicals group M&G in a breakthrough project which will turn agricultural waste into fuel for cars and jets.
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22 September 2011
Climate change is set to impact every aspect of the global economy, with investments on course to grow dramatically as opportunities arise in associated sectors such as energy efficiency, agriculture and renewable energy generation.
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22 September 2011
European buy-out firm Permira has acquired a 61 per cent stake in Israeli drip irrigation company Netafim.
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1 September 2011
State-backed technology accelerator Sustainable Development Technology Canada has announced its 20th round of funding.
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30 August 2011
Israeli water group Gaon Agro is set to launch a new $100m cleantech fund, according to reports.
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25 July 2011
UK investment bank RBS may raise the ceiling of a new agriculture renewable energy fund it has launched in partnership with NatWest if there is enough demand, a spokesperson told NewNet.
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19 July 2011
Co-founder and former CEO of First Solar Mike Ahearn has launched a $300m venture capital company, True North Venture Partners, to invest in early-stage cleantech companies.
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11 April 2011
US-based energy, grains, and foods company CHS generated $396.3m in income in the first half of fiscal year 2011. Its second quarter was particularly fruitful, with its earnings attributed to operations through the second quarter from September 2010 to late February 2011 increasing 96 per cent.
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28 February 2011
Bill and wife Melinda Gates’s philanthropic foundation is to co-fund agricultural research projects designed to help small farmers increase yields and incomes in developing countries, alongside the UK government.
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28 February 2011
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced new subsidies for small farmers, on the same day as a survey showed that production of renewable energy on farms had reached record levels.
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26 April 2010
Aqua Resources Fund, the closed-ended investment company managed by FourWinds Capital Management established to invest in global water opportunities, said its net asset value (NAV) per ordinary share was €1.02 at 31 December 2009, compared to €0.96 the previous year.
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13 August 2009
Gijsbert Nollen discusses the opportunities for clean energy investments in Southeast Asia, why he is turned off by biofuels, and what the future holds for the region.
'If the past two years is any precedent more and more Asian domestic companies will be established developing and refining their technologies in the bioenergy sector and ramping up development. The real success stories will be centered around locally adapted and developed technologies and research and local business entrepreneurs.'
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16 June 2009
Speaking at the official launch of the Forest Footprint Disclosure Project (FFD), Andrew Mitchell, chair of the FFD Project steering committee and an international expert on tropical forests, called for investors to better understand the financial risks that agricultural commodities from deforested land (beef, soy, palm oil, timber and biofuels) pose to their portfolios.
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10 November 2008
The UK and Chinese governments today signed a three year commitment to strengthen their growing partnership on agriculture.
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