Increasing demand for meat and protein for animal feed is putting pressure on animal feed supply, according to Rabobank.
New Forests predicts the $100bn institutional investor market could double or even triple in size as the industry needs to double timber production by 2050.
While over 70% of all freshwater resources are used for agricultural production, the value of water has not been fully understood or appreciated.
Dairy prices are down and staying down, according to Rabobank, hitting profitability for farmers and investors. However, production for key regions like Australia and New Zealand is growing.
Compound annual growth rate 'is the most important performance metric' for institutional investors, according to Andrew Nicholas Smith, co-founder of OWLshares, an alternatives index developer, and author of a new farmland report.
At first glance, agriculture and agribusiness investment may seem like a very small niche within the alternatives market, but it's incredibly diverse. This Almanac supplement offers an in-depth look at a number of agri's sub-sectors.
Though the recent values of Western Australian farmland make grim reading, the Rural Bank's general manager of agribusiness believes circumstances are right for "future prosperity".
The estate agency's new report on US farmland shows it has outperformed other real assets over the past 15 years and is continuing to do so.
Investors need to think about re-balancing their portfolios away from companies whose supply chains are highly dependent on groundwater use, argues one of the report's authors, Brooke Barton.
Food and agriculture accounts for just 5 percent of the $60bn total of impact assets under management, according to a survey conducted by JPMorgan and Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN).