News & media Seeding stability in agriculture investing amid a shifting geopolitical backdrop
As tariffs, sanctions and threats of both buffet economies globally, the heightened uncertainty and volatility has drawn increased attention to some of our most critical supply chains.
Cordiant’s Head of Agriculture, Cédric Garnier-Landurie, wrote in Agri Investor that while economies have increased focus on domestic agricultural production considering the uncertainty, this is a limited measure to achieving effective food security. Most countries globally are still, and will need to be, net food importers to achieve the quantity, quality and variety of food produce required by their populaces. The solution requires balancing both a domestic focus while recognising the inherent need for global partnerships. An approach that promotes greater self-sufficiency alongside enhancing relations and investment in other regions, economies and companies, to achieve a distributed agricultural footprint and capture more robust production capabilities.
Read Cedric’s full piece on the solutions to food security and the importance of the agriculture asset class here: