Guest commentary

Paul Vine, partner in the Amsterdam office of global legal practice at Norton Rose Fulbright, looks at the history of the Common Agriculture Policy and provides some thoughts on new policy's impact on agricultural investment.
Insurance products are now available to help mitigate some timberland investment risks and create a more stable source of returns, argues Christian Röckemann, founding partner of First Forest.
Rob Hurlbut, principal at Equilibrium Capital, describes the fundraising process for the ACM Permanent Crops fund, which closed on $250m last week.
Emma Cowan, independent agribusiness consultant, describes the changing landscape for commodities amid a shift in biofuel and BRIC countries’ growth potential.
The term sustainability has been tarnished by too many broad applications of it, according to a recent white paper by Promar International.
Pravin Chandrasekaran, managing director at OpalCrest, the global data science firm focused on the agribusiness value chain, gives his views on developments in 2014 and some predictions for 2015.
Marcus Meadows-Smith describes the turnaround of biopesticide company AgraQuest - sold to Bayer CropScience for $425m in 2012- during his time as chief executive.
The race is on for attractive agricultural assets in Australia in the wake of the country’s recent free trade agreement with China, according to the investment bank.
Agroforestry is a promising alternative to conventional, and damaging, agricultural systems, according to Patrick Worms, senior policy adviser at the World Agroforestry Centre.
Renee Cheung, an independent consultant, explains how to choose a suitable regenerative agriculture asset.
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