For the first time in history, the world's financial architecture, environmental markets, data systems and agriculture are beginning to converge. Most farmers are still looking at fertiliser prices while the foundations beneath the marketplace are quietly being rebuilt and without permission or consultation!
Why is Australia investing in this now, and why are agriculture, carbon markets and natural capital appearing in the same conversation?
If financial markets, carbon markets and digital settlement systems continue to converge, Australian farmers should ask whether the long-term incentives favour productive agriculture, or whether increasing value will accrue to financial and environmental assets associated with the land.
If family farms become financially weaker while institutional investors become stronger, what does that mean for the future ownership and purpose of Australian farmland?
As agriculture becomes increasingly financialised, who will own Australia's productive land in twenty years and what incentives will shape how that land is used? That's a serious question. It touches on:
- foreign investment,
- carbon markets,
- natural capital,
- family farm succession,
- institutional investment,
- and financial infrastructure.
Yourearthfood.com GROW part 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
https://yourearthfood.com.au/blogs/grow-commercial/what-is-the-project-acacia-farmers and please tell all your farming friends to get into Farmfinder.au https://yourearthfood.com.au/blogs/grow/every-meal-is-a-farm-blessed-thank-you so people can buy directly from the farm and financially support them.
Secondly, invest in this for profits and tell your farming friends here is money to use without the banks. iif.today https://yourearthfood.com.au/blogs/grow-commercial/money-for-the-farm-easily-done-with-no-banks