Exclusive: DBJ Bringing Awareness and Capital to Ag Investing in Japan
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Recent activity by the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) reflects how the bank continues to break ground as an investor. Within the span of two weeks in September, DBJ began fostering a shift in Japan’s investment landscape through its commitment to the TIR Europe Forestry Fund II, and became
Read moreContributed Content: Applications & Infrastructure in Agtech
A new perspective on the past 40 years of agtech and what it means for the future. By G. Bailey Stockdale, Leaf This is an exciting time to be working in agtech because we are at the start of a new cycle of applications and infrastructure. Over the last 40 years agtech has advanced from basic technologies like yield mapping and crop rec
Read moreContributed Content from WIA Summit: Understanding the Plant-based Consumer
By Michele Fite, Chief Commercial Officer, Motif FoodWorks Editor’s Note: Michele Fite was a speaker at our sister conference -- the 10th annual Women in Agribusiness Summit, which was held in Minneapolis, September 21-23, 2021. Below is a synopsis of her presentation on “Understanding the Plant-based Consumer - With Greater Demand Com
Read moreContributed Content: Investing in African Agriculture —The Promises and The Pitfalls
By Ben Palen, Ag Management Partners During the past 10-15 years, the amount of investment in agriculture by what are known as NTIs (non traditional investors) has grown from barely a blip on the radar screen to a figure that is undoubtedly well into the tens of billions of dollars. Large institutionally supported funds have poured billions
Read moreLet’s Talk “Trade And …”
By Shawn Marie Jarosz, TradeMoves, and the TradeMoves’ Team (First printed in our sister publication, Women in Agribusiness (WIA) Today.) Importers and exporters alike know that cross-border supply chains are often impacted by changes in trade policy and domestic legislation – both by the United States as well as its trading partners.
Read moreVeripath Farmland Partners Acquires 10,500 Acres of Farmland in Alberta
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Since its formal launch in mid-2020, Calgary-based Veripath Farmland Partners (Veripath) has rapidly grown, today reaching approximately $170 million AUM. The latest addition to its portfolio came in the form of the recent acquisition of 10,500 contiguous acres of farmland in Alberta, Canada,
Read moreAqua-Spark Releases Sub-Saharan Aquaculture Report Prior to New $300M Fund
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Sustainable aquaculture and related tech investor Aqua-Spark has released an in-depth, 92-page report exploring current geography and the potential for Tilapia farming in sub-Saharan Africa. Noting in AquaInsights, An Introduction to Tilapia in Sub-Saharan Africa, “We don’t doubt that
Read moreContributed Content: The Quantum Approach to Innovation
By Joseph Byrum History is filled with naysayers who doubted technology’s ability to lift society past hurdles once thought insurmountable. Thomas Malthus was the classic exponent of this philosophy, outlining in his great 1798 work how famine, disease, and war were the inevitable consequence of food production’s inability to
Read moreOp Ed: Farmland Investment – A Different Point of View
By Ben Palen, Ag Management Partners Farmland has become an item on the menu of “investments du jour.” It is, perhaps, not especially surprising that investors have discovered the benefits of land ownership. Something else is surprising, though, and it has given this writer, a fifth generation farmer, some pause. The context for this
Read moreContributed Content: Farmland, Inflation, Stagflation and Real Rates
By Stephen Johnston, Director, Veripath Partners Based on what can only be described as the massive growth of the global money supply in the last 12 months, the apparent willingness of central bankers to continue to backstop unprecedented fiscal deficits, and a large contraction in economic activity, it appears we have the raw materials f
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