Matthieu Favas
At a time when most Middle Eastern sovereigns are already hungry for farmland deals, geopolitical tensions are pushing Qatar’s state-backed fund into an even greater acquisitive mode. Should other investors fear the competition?
The ag subsidiary of the Qatar Investment Authority, which already owns chunks of farmland in Australia, plans to invest $500m in Sudan by 2021. We take a look at the unit’s current holdings overseas.
For farmers in search of funding, every little helps – and when it comes to government support, it’s not so little. In this interactive presentation, we look at the most generous countries, the crops that benefit and conditionality attached to public money.
Precision BioSciences will use the capital raised to extend its gene-editing technology from human therapeutics to the agri-food industry.
Getting more large-scale assets to market would help address one obstacle to greater superfund investment in Australian agriculture. But it is no silver bullet.
In the first of a series of case studies, we look at what led to the collapse of Eclipse Berry Farms, which at its peak generated $230m in revenue from its growing operations.
A large majority of producers already have trouble hiring seasonal workers and expect price hikes to kick in soon, according to a report by the sector’s industry body.
Panellists at our Australia Forum today said talent is becoming harder to come by at a time when investors are chasing a A$2bn deal pipeline.
But CIO Angela Miller-May stressed it wasn’t the clincher in its recent decision to allocate $50m with IFM Investors and Ullico Investment Advisors.
Michael Dundon tells Agri Investor the A$20bn fund entered the asset class opportunistically but is now thinking about diversification. Here are some lessons for other supers looking to follow suit.