This book is a one-stop reference for practitioners and academics in finance, business and economics, providing a holistic reference to the international agriculture business. It takes a multidisciplinary approach, looking at the issues, opportunities and investable themes in the global agricultural space, combining research and practical tools.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Preface
• List of Abbreviations
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Investible Agricultural Space
• 3 Climate Change and Agriculture
• 4 Agricultural Risk Management and (Crop) Insurance
• 5 Biofuels and Agriculture
• 6 Biofuels and the Sustainability Conundrum
• 7 Financing the Agricultural Firm
• 8 Farmland I: An Investible Asset Class?
• 9 Farmland II: Capita Selecta
• 10 Farmland III: Land-Expectation Value and Timberland Valuation
• 11 Advanced Technologies and Agriculture: Genomics, Nanotechnology, and Beyond
• 12 Challenges in Agricultural Production and Natural-Resources Management
• 13 Sustainability of Agricultural Productivity Growth
• 14 Commodities I: Derivative Markets
• 15 Commodities II: Trading Agricultural Commodities
• 16 Commodities III: Speculation on (Agricultural) Commodity Derivatives and Financialization of Commodity-Price Formation
• 17 The Global Water Challenge
• 18 Future Agricultural Dynamics