Farmland
Canadian Farmland – Feeding the World in a Changing Climate
Jul 19th, 2020 | Filed under: Agriculture, Newly Added, Farmland, Natural Resources and Land, Real Assets
By Joelle Faulkner, Founder and CEO & Max Pentland, Analyst, Area One Farms As our climate and population are rapidly changing on a global scale, Canadian farmland appears to be an increasingly attractive investment. Rising populations and temperatures will likely cause farmland values in Canada to appreciate, driven by demand for agriculturalRead More
Real Estate Investing: From Farmland to Berlin
Aug 18th, 2019 | Filed under: Real Estate, Agriculture, Liquid and Fixed Income Real Estate, Newly Added, Farmland, Natural Resources and Land, Other Issues in Private Investments, The Alts Industry, Real Estate Equity Investments, Private Investments, Real AssetsA new study from Nuveen looks at how to assess properly the value of real estate and farmland. There are four key points: That a “doubleness” of vision is necessary. You need to take a macro view of the investment world and a micro view of the farms and otherRead More
Crop Protection and Inputs Management: Growing Investments in AgTech
Jun 20th, 2019 | Filed under: Private Equity, Commodities, Agriculture, Investing in Commodities, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Venture capital, Farmland, Equity Types of Private Equity, Natural Resources and Land, Angel investing, The Alts Industry, Commodities, Private InvestmentsThe agricultural sector is under pressure from several directions, including depressed commodity prices, increased regulation, climate change, and changes in consumer tastes. This pressure creates a demand for technological progress, and that in turn creates a market for agtech. Two years ago, Finisterre Ventures and Pitchbook combined their data gatheringRead More
Agtech: Comfort Zones and Value Chains
Dec 11th, 2018 | Filed under: Real Estate, Agriculture, Investing in Commodities, Debt Types of Private Equity, Liquid and Fixed Income Real Estate, Newly Added, Venture capital, Farmland, Equity Types of Private Equity, Natural Resources and Land, Other Issues in Private Investments, The Alts Industry, Real Estate Equity Investments, Commodities, Private Investments, Real AssetsAn agtech-focused venture firm has issued a report about global VC activity across agtech and its subsectors. The firm, Finistere Ventures, which describes itself as in the business of helping “ambitious founders transform food and agriculture,” collaborated with Pitchbook in preparing the review. Finistere looks specifically at: (a) macro trends,Read More
Agtech Investment and the Future of Food
Aug 14th, 2018 | Filed under: Private Equity, Agriculture, Newly Added, Venture capital, Farmland, Equity Types of Private Equity, Natural Resources and Land, Angel investing, The Alts Industry, Private Investments, Real AssetsFinistere Ventures, a venture capital firm that describes itself as in the business of helping “ambitious founders transform food and agriculture,” has teamed up with Pitchbook to produce a dataset that would enable “clear insights into financing activity and metrics in the agtech sector.” The result was the Agtech InvestmentRead More
Highlights in the Growth of Farmland Funds
May 9th, 2017 | Filed under: Agriculture, Newly Added, Farmland, Natural Resources and Land, Real AssetsHighquest Partners and a product strategist for timber and agriculture at GMO LLC (Julie Koeninger) have collaborated on a white paper on the history of farmland investment, at its heart the story, first, of how farmland has grown (since the late 1980s and the rebound from the farm crisis earlierRead More
TIAA Report On Responsibility and Farmland
Dec 11th, 2016 | Filed under: Newly Added, Farmland, Natural Resources and Land, Real AssetsBiff Ourso, TIAA’s portfolio manager for agriculture investments, says in a prefatory message to their new report that “concerns have been raised about whether investment in regions such as Brazil contribute to land conflicts, lead to the displacement of local people … or foster excessive pesticide usage.” TIAA, which hasRead More
Preqin on Ag Funds and Their Managers
Dec 1st, 2016 | Filed under: Newly Added, Farmland, Natural Resources and Land, Real AssetsFundraising for agriculture/farmland-focused funds has been remarkably strong recently, according to research by Preqin, the multi-national data and consulting firm. Farmland has been aptly described as the “oldest alternative investment” and dates as far back as 9,000 years ago. The focus on Preqin’s special report on agriculture is somewhat more recentRead More
Private Capital Fundraising Slows: Green and Brown Valleys
Jul 14th, 2016 | Filed under: Real Estate, Infrastructure, Newly Added, Farmland, Natural Resources and Land, Operationally Intensive Real Assets, Real Estate Equity Investments, Real Assets, Other Topics in AltsPreqin, the multinational data and consulting firm, has looked at the second quarter and found it was, for private capital fundraising … slow. So was the quarter before it. Together they made up the first half of 2016, in which the funds closed in the world of private capital globallyRead More
A Perennial Gale Hits the Coffee Industry
Jan 11th, 2016 | Filed under: Commodities, Agriculture, Investing in Commodities, Newly Added, Farmland, Natural Resources and Land, CommoditiesThe popularity of the drip coffee maker is in decline, or at least it has passed its peak. In 2013. 58% of coffee drinkers had used such a coffee maker on the day before the day they were asked, that is, “yesterday.” That number was down to 54% in 2014,Read More
Farm Land: The Risks & Rewards of Buying Direct
Jun 7th, 2015 | Filed under: Real Estate, Infrastructure, Institutional Investing, FarmlandGuest columnist Andrew Smith, CAIA, examines the risks and rewards of investing directly in farmland.Read More