The Handbook of Global Agricultural Markets (eBook)

Luc Nijs is the founder, chairman and group CEO of The Talitha Group, a global merchant banking group and global investment holding. Before founding The Talitha Group he was with Arthur Andersen and Deloitte. Luc further provides extensive advisory, executive coaching and financial training for corporations, investment funds and financial institutions and is active in over 160 countries worldwide on a wide array of strategy, investments and capital allocation issues. He held academic positions in international taxation, finance and capital markets at UAMS/IPO (Belgium), Instituto de Empresa (Spain) and most recently the Aizkraukles Banka Chair in investment banking, private equity and entrepreneurial finance at the Riga Graduate School of Law (Latvia).Luc is fluent in Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish and is competent in Russian and Chinese. Luc previously authored the best-selling book 'Shaping Tomorrow's Marketplace: Investment Philosophies for Emerging Markets and a Semi-Globalized World' as well as the equally if not more appreciated 'Mezzanine Finance: Tools, Applications and Total Return'.

Cover 1
Half-Title 2
Series 3
Title 4
Copyright 5
Dedication 6
Contents 8
List of Figures 9
List of Tables 10
Preface 12
List of Abbreviations 17
1 Introduction 20
2 The Investible Agricultural Space 62
3 Climate Change and Agriculture 82
4 Agricultural Risk Management and (Crop) Insurance 110
5 Biofuels and Agriculture 161
6 Biofuels and the Sustainability Conundrum 168
7 Financing the Agricultural Firm 191
8 Farmland I: An Investible Asset Class? 214
9 Farmland II: Capita Selecta 252
10 Farmland III: Land-Expectation Value and Timberland Valuation 264
11 Advanced Technologies and Agriculture: Genomics, Nanotechnology, and Beyond 293
12 Challenges in Agricultural Production and Natural-Resources Management 308
13 Sustainability of Agricultural Productivity Growth 322
14 Commodities I: Derivative Markets 334
15 Commodities II: Trading Agricultural Commodities 353
16 Commodities III: Speculation on (Agricultural) Commodity Derivatives and Financialization of Commodity-Price Formation 420
17 The Global Water Challenge 462
18 Future Agricultural Dynamics 488
Notes 504
Index 601