Investors want sustainable beef production
The latest annual update to the Australian Beef Sustainability Framework shows an industry trying to get on the front foot with consumers and investors.
Finding a place for aquaculture
As the aquaculture industry weighs whether its future is onshore, in the open-ocean or both, private equity investors have an opportunity to help develop a market seen as key to meeting future protein demand.
Visibility needed as ‘mixed’ sentiment hits east-coast Australian grains
The first wheat imports to Australia in years raise concerns about the sector – but there is still interest in cropping properties.
Mother Nature might get a vote on US/China ‘de-coupling’
Ag is at the center of a fierce dispute between the world’s two largest economies about the rules of global trade. Disease - and the disruption it brings - could highlight how global trade can be a force for good.
PE’s role in the 21st-century hemp supply chain
Private investors are well-positioned to help revive industrial hemp in the US, but they will have to navigate a hopeful market carefully.
Australian ag needs better risk-management tools
A new report from the Australian Farm Institute argues that institutional – rather than price or production – risk poses the greatest challenge to the sector today.
Is ag suffering from inflated expectations?
The absence of inflation has added complexity to an already challenging fundraising environment. But there's more to the asset class than inflation protection.
Looking for water markets outside the Murray-Darling Basin
Western Australia offers potentially fertile ground for water investors, should the state government allow it.
The haves and the have-mores
For private investors in global agriculture, growing concerns about inequality are by no means academic; the chasm between large and small is already shaping their environment in important ways.
Australian animal activism reminds of the need to be squeaky clean
Vegan protests and criticism of the live export trade are making headlines in the country again. They are a reminder of the need to be whiter than white when it comes to animal welfare.
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