From GAI Gazette: Agtech Innovation Begins and Ends with Collaboration
This article will be featured in the next GAI Gazette, Volume 7, Issue 1, which will be distributed in conjunction with the annual Global AgInvesting flagship conference to be held in New York, April 22-24, 2020. Join us for this three-day event and gain valuable insight and learn best practices from the expert speaking faculty. Le
Read more15 Minutes With… Kip Pendleton, Executive Chairman of Legacy Seed Companies
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, GAI Media Kip Pendleton is executive chairman of Legacy Seed Companies, a proprietary seed company with operations in Wisconsin, Michigan, Idaho, Minnesota, and North Dakota that was created in 2017 to acquire and consolidate small regional producers of specialty seeds for U.S. Midwest farmers, producing crop
Read moreContributed Content: Investment Resilience and Adaption to a Changing Climate
By Angus Ingram, Investment Manager, Kilter Rural Recent bushfire events in Australia have thrust themselves onto the screens of the world depicting dramatic images of holiday makers seeking shelter from the flames. Throughout January 2020, Canberra, Australia’s capital city, was ranked as having the poorest air quality in the world, a
Read moreContributed Content: Water Security – Iran By the Numbers
By Josiah Terrell-Perica, Farmland Investment Director at FarmTogether Iran’s greatest enemy is water scarcity and systemic failures around water management. Seven of the 10 most water stressed countries are in the Middle East, and climate change projections show that the situation will only become more dire. This region is warming faster
Read moreContributed Content Part VIII – Population and Food Demand: Growing Appetites and Shrinking Fields
This is the final article in an eight-part series published by GAI News that examines existing trends set to alter the structure of our global food system. Be sure to read the first seven articles here: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, and Part VII. By Jeremy Stroud, Bonnefield Investment Analyst “Economic growth won
Read moreContributed Content: Why California’s Water Crisis Is Everybody’s Problem
By Gerelyn Terzo, WIA Media* The state of California is no stranger to calamity, as evidenced by the persistent droughts and devastating wildfires that have ravished the land in years past. Now, however, it is facing a crisis of another kind, and at this critical juncture the fate of the global agriculture industry hangs in the balance.
Read more15 Minutes With…Tim McGavin, CEO of Laguna Bay
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, GAI Media Australia’s Laguna Bay, a full service institutional investment management firm specialising in the agri sector, made headlines in December 2019 when it sold, on behalf of its investors, the largest almond portfolio in Australia to Canadian pension fund giant Public Sector Pension Investment Board
Read moreContributed Content: Japanese Agriculture’s Rising Sun…
By Misako Terui and Greg Mellinger of HighQuest Partners, LLC. Japan has long had a reputation as a country with an agricultural trade deficit, with challenges facing its declining population and market. Japan is known as a major importer of a range of agricultural commodities such as wheat, corn, soybeans, meat products, and vegetable oils
Read moreContributed Content: Part II – Plant-based protein is here to stay
By Adam Bergman - AgTech & FoodTech Investment Banker This is the second of a two-part article series written by Adam Bergman. Part I was published on December 3 and can be found here. When I wrote my initial article on plant-based protein less than six months ago, I considered myself to be one of the more bullish peo
Read moreContributed Content: Part I – Consumers and Investors Embrace Plant-Based Protein
By Adam Bergman - AgTech & FoodTech Investment Banker This is the first of a two-part article series written by Adam Bergman. Part II will follow in next week's issue of AgInvesting Weekly. I believe that in a decade we will look back on the Beyond Meat initial public offering (IPO) and appreciate the enormity of this ev
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