In the 19th century, British colonial administrators in India noticed a cobra problem. There were too many venomous snakes, so they offered a bounty for
Capital is necessary but not sufficient. Once the blended finance structures are in place and the money is deployed, the real question is whether the
The global crop protection industry has a structural problem that is becoming impossible to ignore. Decades of intensive monoculture and the over-application of synthetic pesticides
There is a phrase Sarah Nolet uses that cuts through a lot of the noise around agrifood technology investing: you cannot eat software. It is
Most global allocators think of Brazil through a limited set of lenses. Carnival. The Amazon. Political volatility. What they rarely think about is that Brazil
Most conversations about climate-smart agriculture end up at one of two extremes. Either they focus on smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia, where
“Brazil is a tropical agriculture ecosystem, and when you start to understand the particularities of this, you start to understand some opportunities. In Brazil, we
“As I’ve spent more time in agriculture, I’ve started questioning where the ‘move fast, break things’ mentality actually fits in a physical world of investing.
“There is no investment category in Latin America where you can scale environmental and social impact like agriculture. ” — Francisco Jardim In this episode,
