Commentary

Greenhouse with integrated solar panels
The manager has set its sights on building out up to 150ha of strategically located greenhouses across Europe that will repurpose waste heat, energy and CO2.
Selection of grains, wheat and fibres
Glencore’s merger with Bunge brings CPPIB and BCI into the evolving quartet at the heart of global ag trade, albeit in a less direct form than if it had succeeded in creating a true rival.
Chicken filet and waffles
Participants at the Future Food-Tech Alternative Proteins conference in New York drew encouragement from the USDA's approval of cultivated chicken while examining challenges and opportunities across a diverse set of markets.
‘There isn’t resistance out of principle’ from Australian superfunds to investing in agriculture, but barriers remain, says CEFC’s Heechung Sung.
View of a mountain range with a forest in the foreground and pink flowers on a sunny day
The bloc’s center piece environmental legislation has gotten caught in a legislative saga of nail-biting voting results and negotiating room walkouts.
PGIM’s Shehriyar Antia says investors and policymakers see the food system as ‘where the ESG puck is going’ and will draw on recent experience in energy in developing their approach.
With timber imports resuming and discussions over barley tariffs showing promise, there is hope that broader trade barriers will be lifted and that capital inflows can resume.
Impact Investor Global Summit
The cast of characters at this year's Impact Investor Global Summit tells a positive story about how institutional investors are thinking about impact.
The sovereign debt restructuring facility seems capable of solving numerous challenges simultaneously but has some way to go before it becomes an easily replicable way of protecting natural capital.
Markets are watching closely the negotiations around a Ukrainian grain export deal that affirms the role of geopolitics and diplomacy in the fortunes of agricultural investors.
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