Samantha Wai, associate at Innovation Endeavors, explains the thinking behind Farm2050, the agtech funder and support initiative.
Barnaby Joyce, the agriculture minister of Australia, talks about the Agricultural Competitiveness Taskforce's aim to boost the sector's productivity and profitability.
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.
For agri-focused investment managers, the need to inform the investing community about the opportunity is still as relevant as ever.
Abraaj invested in Yorsan, a Turkish dairy producer, in January. Here, Omar Syed, a managing director, discusses the private equity opportunity in food and agri.
Animal health is an increasingly lucrative sub-sector of the agribusiness investment market.
Marcus Meadows-Smith describes the turnaround of biopesticide company AgraQuest - sold to Bayer CropScience for $425m in 2012- during his time as chief executive.
Conversations in London this week centred on a potential shift in institutional demand and the surprise upwards tick in commodities futures.
The long-standing venture capital firm is eyeing specific opportunities within agtech, says Brook Porter, partner in the Green Growth Fund.
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.