Agril Farmland Investments Company was established by a group of professionals from an investment and agricultural background. Early on in the financial crisis and the recent pandemic, it was already quite clear that there would be opportunities opening up as investors sought alternatives to mainstream asset classes. We also understood that farmland and agricultural assets had many of the characteristics that investors would find attractive in the new environment Farmland and agricultural Investments Characteristics
Based on the past financial crisis and recently pandemic, we fully appreciate that investment environment is changing. It is clear that traditional risk management models are unfit to protect investor’s capital. And sustainably deliver returns. The old models are also failing in the current climate and hence a call to have a fully diversified portifolio. The “new normal” would have seemed highly abnormal to a pre- pandemic investor.
Farmland and agricultural investment opportunities have been growing from strength to strength whilst other investments have been launching into crisis. We realised that it is not the first time investors are looking at farmland and agriculture as a realiable asset class but rather how poorly those that did were underserved with poor productivity/ returns due to lack professionalism and expartise in this asset class.
It seemed that the embryonic world of agricultural investment was dominated either by financial professionals pretending to know about farming or by farmers pretending to understand financial markets. By bringing the two disciplines together under one roof, Agril Farmland Investments has been working hard ever since to provide a better solutions to help in improved food production in Sub-Saharan Africa and sustainably deliver better returns to our clients.
We develope a groundbreaking purchase giving our investors all of the benefits of direct ownership and a stable income. Sub-Saharan Africa offers investors developed export market infrastructure, security and transparency at developing world scale and low land prices. As a result, the region offers arguably the most attractive risk adjusted returns of any major developing world producer. With our regional offices we are now able to support professional investors reliably whilst having boots on the ground in the rural communities and agribusiness sector in which we operate.