In January of this year, GAI News featured Tim McGavin, CEO and founder of Laguna Bay of Australia, which was founded in 2010, in a 15 Minutes With… profile. McGavin provided a more detailed look at Laguna’s sale of the largest almond portfolio in Australia to Canadian pension fund giant Public Sector Pension Investment Board […]
By Peter Golbitz and Jacob Golbitz NOTE: This article first appeared in The Organic Broadcaster, July/August 2019 issue, Volume 27, Number 4, published by Midwest Organic & Sustainable Education Service (MOSES). The food landscape in America is being reshaped by shifting consumer preferences driven by a younger demographic that values transparency, sustainable farming practices, and […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall This article will be featured along with other articles addressing investment opportunities in agriculture and surrounding themes in the GAI Gazette, Volume 6, Issue 1, which will be distributed in conjunction with the 11th annual flagship Global AgInvesting event, held in New York City on April 1-3, 2019. Lucy MacMillan Stitzer is a featured presenter […]
Editor’s note: The below is contributed content. By Jingyi Li Blank, Director at Mintz Group Wesley Batista and his brother Joesley deserved much more scrutiny. In 2017, the CEO and former chairman, respectively, of JBS S.A., in Brazil, one of the world’s largest meat processing companies, entered into a plea bargain with investigators, admitting to bribing more than […]
By Michael DeSa, Founder of AGD Consulting, and Monica Ganley, Principal at Quarterra In recent years, Brazil has solidified its role as a global agricultural powerhouse. It has become the world’s largest exporter of soybeans, coffee, and sugar, as well as the second largest overall food producer on the planet. Over the past 15 years, […]
by Jessica Donnel, Writer and Reporter at And NowUKnow MCLEAN, VA – By now, the produce industry might be pretty well acquainted with our friends at Gladstone Land Corporation, a real estate investment trust (REIT), but perhaps not with how the company works to benefit farmers. Namely, allowing farmers to sell a farm to the […]
For anyone considering an investment in agriculture, there are some critical considerations to be taken into account. Based on over 15 years of management experience and building a portfolio of over $400 million invested in Australian agriculture, Growth Farms Australia has put together what we believe are the ten key rules that investors need to […]
Expert commentary from Finistere Ventures’ Spencer Maughan: A VC friend of mine recently told me about his new fund and the investment areas of interest. Not surprisingly, genomics was one of the hot areas. As a geneticist and investor, I’m pleased to see the interest. However, when I asked about genomics in agriculture, he told me […]
Global agriculture is faced with the enormous challenge of feeding the world, but is not equipped with the right “tools” to address it adequately. According to Dr. Fred Davis, an expert from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), lack of water, energy, and land will lead to food shortages that will not suffice […]
By Arama Kukutai Precision Ag has been the hot topic in the Agtech sector, particularly with the acquisition of the first “Ag Unicorn” Climate Corp by Monsanto and the subsequent gold rush of new digital ag startups. As farmers face lowering commodity prices and squeezed farm margins, a plethora of startups are now attempting to […]
