Tariffs

The agricultural investment arm of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has acquired nearly A$500m worth of Australian farmland in less than a year but remains under a threshold that would trigger closer government oversight.

Timberland's place in the natural capital asset class is just one factor attracting wider investment.

The Department of Government Efficiency’s cost-cutting specter has clouded otherwise straight-forward expectations for ad-hoc payments that have already helped shape regional farmland markets.

Cordiant Capital head of agriculture Cédric Garnier-Landurie says tariffs and geopolitics are threatening all the best remedies to the world’s food security challenges.