Guest commentary

Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, has €6 billion to allocate and is looking for opportunities in food and agriculture, according to Cathal Fitzgerald, head of food and agriculture investments at ISIF.
Many corporate and institutional investments into Australian agriculture have not performed well compared to the returns achieved by the family farm, argues David Cornish, principal at Cornish Consultancy.
New Mexico Educational Retirement Board's Mark Canavan tells Agri Investor how and why he invested in an ecological restoration fund.
The agriculture sector is in the middle of a quiet transformation and the private sector should be at its helm, argues Chuck Magro, CEO of fertiliser company Agrium, in the wake of a UN meeting to create a new set of Sustainable Development Goals.
Lawyers from Norton Rose Fulbright look at moves to adjust Dodd-Frank regulations on derivatives trading to make life easier for commercial companies.
The longer-term impact of low oil prices on the agriculture sector remains the subject of much speculation, writes Andrew Wood, senior associate at law firm Norton Rose Fulbright.
The Shariyah Review Bureau has recently researched the agriculture fund market and its openness to sharia compliance. Here Saif Shawqi, assistant business developer at the Bureau, discusses the findings.
As institutions look to commit 20% of their portfolios to real assets, agri investing will gain popularity. But investment managers must be careful to ensure they have the right on-the-ground management, argues Detlef Schoen, head of farm investments at Aquila Capital.
New laws and regulations emanating from Brussels over the past few years have had mixed effects on the private equity and venture capital industry, writes law firm King & Wood Mallesons in its latest Private Equity Comment.
For those with a hearty appetite for risk, the rewards of investing in African agri can be enormous, says consultant Emma Cowan of Cardy-Brown. But be careful where you tread and with whom.
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