Editor's View

Regulatory risk and climatic conditions are the culprits behind a drop in the value of water entitlements in the southern MDB, the first in four years.

With a further $14bn injection into the USDA expected to land in July, the intervention suggests trouble runs deep – the reality is a little more complicated.

The UAE capital will deploy $270m by 2021 as part of a strategic agtech program that has the end-goal of turning the city into a regional and global exporting hub of food tech innovation.

The Eastern European country has some 41m ha of underdeveloped arable land. A new law that ends the near 20-year moratorium on farmland sales is just the start of a long road ahead.

Unlike various other ag segments, fishing and aquaculture will continue to suffer as long as populations are in lockdown and restaurants remain closed.

During a time of unprecedented global crisis and widespread turmoil across asset classes, ag industry stakeholders continue to feel upbeat about their investments.

The practice of voluntarily conducting and disclosing climate-related financial risk analysis is in its early days, but awareness and engagement are gathering pace.

Investments made by its ag fund – which seeks opportunities created by dislocation, while continuing to distance itself from a ‘special situations’ tag – will be the most telling factor in the strategy’s objectives.

Market participants are ‘nervous and cautious’ as the coronavirus crisis drags on, with no end yet in sight.

The AGRI3 fund is a sustainable agriculture and forestry fund and could become the largest climate mitigation fund in the market. What can investors and GPs learn from its structure?