The Handbook of Global Agricultural Markets The Business and Finance of Land, Water, and Soft Commodities

by Nijs, Luc

• ISBN13: 9781137302335
• ISBN10: 113730233X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-07-21
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The Handbook of Global Agricultural Markets is a one-stop reference for practitioners and academics in finance, business, and economics, providing a holistic reference to the international agriculture business. The book takes a multidisciplinary approach to the topic, looking at the issues, opportunities, and investible themes in the global agricultural space, combining both research and practical tools for analyzing topics and assessing risks. A central theme of the book is the role of the agriculture industry as an emerging market, how the industry has developed and grown to date, and prospects for the future. Readers will gain an understanding of the industry from the perspectives of producers, consumers, and catalysts. The book provides coverage of the following key commodity industries: wheat, soybean, corn, coffee, cotton, rice, ethanol, oats, lumber, cacao, orange juice, soy oil, live cattle, live hogs and feed cattle, water.

This book will appeal to a range of readers, from the institutional investor who wants to invest in commodities; businesses, angels, and private equity houses who want to invest in agriculture projects; businesses looking for market entry; and academics who are researching the global agriculture industry.

Author Biography

Luc Nijs is the founder, chairman and group CEO of The Talitha Group, a global emerging markets merchant banking group and conglomerate. He further holds the Aizkraukles Banka chair in investment banking, private equity and entrepreneurial finance at the Riga Graduate School of Law in Latvia where his lecturing and research focuses on issues involving globalization and corporate strategies, investment strategies for emerging markets and in particular the impact of country context and institutional voids on returns. He provides extensive advisory, executive coaching and training in these matters for corporations, funds and financial institutions and is active in over 160 counties worldwide. He was previously with Arthur Andersen in a number of global executive and C-suite positions and as a professor affiliated with Instituto de Empresa (Spain) and UAMS (Belgium).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. The Investible Agricultural Space
3. Climate Change and Agriculture
4. Agricultural Risk Management & Insurance
5. Biofuels and Agriculture
5b. Biofuels and the Sustainability Conundrum
6. Financing the Agricultural Firm
7. Farmland as an Investible Asset Class
7b. Farmland
7c. Land Expectation Value and Timberland Valuation
8. Advanced Technologies and Agriculture
9. Challenges in Agricultural Production and Natural Resources Management
10. Sustainability of Agricultural Productivity Growth
11. Commodity Derivative Markets
11b. Trading Agricultural Commodities
11c. Speculation on (Agricultural) Commodity Markets & Financialization of Commodity Price Formation
12. The Global Water Challenge
13. Future Agricultural Dynamics