Agricultural Sector Opportunities

The agriculture sector offers investors a wealth of opportunities to capture growth & income driven by rising demand for foods & fuels. FDC-Texas provides direct property & development management, loan servicing, markets, and due diligence consulting on individual project based on asset class analysis, market commentary & opportunities to participate in real-asset agriculture investments.
Demand for agricultural commodities is rising fast due to:

• Population growth is occurring at the fastest pace in history
• Super-size populations in developing economies are spending their rising incomes on food & energy, demanding a more resource-intensive, western-style diet
• Current Agricultural productivity is close to the limit of expansion
• Climate change & a host of other agricultural land reducing factors

The increasing demand for food, feed & fuel coupled with a diminishing supply of productive assets is causing growth in farmland & commodities, placing agricultural investment strategies high on the agenda of institutional and private investors.
Agricultural land has shown to outperform the majority of traditional investment assets & financial markets, thus protecting portfolios during periods of economic volatility. As the agriculture sector expands due to a continually larger population requiring more commodities, well-managed investors will capitalize on this growth in demand for products and services, generating capital growth & income from properly managed farmland.
Example: Organizations Investing In Agribusiness/Farmland:

• African Agricultural Capital, Agrifirma
• Belton Private Equity, Black Earth Farming, Black River Asset Management
• Al Cardinal Investment, LLC.
• Deutsche Bank, Dow Employee’s Pension Plan
• Emerging Capital Partners, Emirates Investment Group
• Gates Foundation, Gatsby Charitable Foundation, George Washington University Endowment Fund, Global Environmental Fund, Goldman Sachs – Great Southern Management
• Hancock Agricultural Investment Group
• Industrial Development Corp, Islamic Development Bank
• Libyan Investment Authority, Libyan Foreign Investment Company
• Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investments, Morgan Stanley
• UBS AgriVest
• Phatisa Group
• Sanlam Private Equity, SilverStreet Capital
• Rockefeller Foundation
• Volksvermogen
• Wexford Capital