Insight|Strategy

Environmental, Social, and Governance: Paine Schwartz Releases 2020 Sustainability Report

By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Farmers and agricultural investors alike have an increasingly heavy burden: to not only feed a booming global population, but to do it in a way that mitigates climate change, pollution levels, soil degradation, overexploitation of water resources, drought, and species, habitat and pollinator loss – while also addressing labor […]

Second Annual SRI Report Places HNRG in Leading Role For a More Sustainable Future

By Lynda Kiernan It’s true that the world is collectively being faced with unprecedented ecological, environmental, and societal challenges. Climate change, pollution levels, soil degradation, species extinction and loss of pollinators, drought and overexploitation of water resources, as well as economic inequality, are threatening not just specific regions, but due to globalization, the world as […]

Contributed Content: U.S. Farmland Returns Over the Last Decade

By Catherine Bowlus and Artem Milinchuk,  Business Strategy Associate and CEO/Founder, FarmTogether Farmland has outperformed all major asset classes over the last decade aside from stocks and conventional real estate. One hundred dollars invested in farmland on January 1, 2010 would now be worth over $280, with U.S. stocks coming in just above $350, however, […]

Agriculture Capital Releases 2019 Impact Report Demonstrating Positive Impact of its Regenerative Practices

By Lynda Kiernan Agriculture Capital has released its third annual Impact Report, outlining the continued positive impact its regenerative farming practices are having on the environment, economy, and labor force, while also generating favorable financial returns.  “As our business has evolved, we’ve grown to view risk as opportunities with the recognition that activities that create […]

Agriculture in Panama – The Investment Landscape and Opportunities

by Michael DeSa, CEO/Founder, AGD Consulting Panama is one of the fastest growing economies in Latin America. Foreign investments in Panama amount to nearly 9 percent of the country’s GDP, which is the largest share in the Americas and speaks to the country’s investor friendliness.(1) Foreign direct investment into Panama is up 6 percent since […]