Investors

Investors are increasingly attracted to the positive environmental and social benefits of sustainable agricultural investments. In addition, investors have long favored agriculture’s recession resiliency along with its low correlation to other traditional assets. The founders of Aqua Ceres have worked in the agriculture and water sectors for the past several decades.

Aqua Ceres is committed to responsible stewardship and sustainable practices, including new technologies to conserve and enhance soil, optimize irrigation, restore natural vegetation, and preserve local ecosystems.

As the world seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the global demand for carbon credits continues to rise. Through registered agriculture carbon sequestration projects, Aqua Ceres has become a leader in carbon credit farming.

Capital

Many of the world’s farms remain owner-operated, and subscale, vulnerable to the widening generational gap as older farmers retire without successors. One of the biggest global trends has been the infusion of institutional capital into agriculture and the inherent ‘roll-up’ from these institutions of the small family-operated farms.

The institutional buying of these smaller family farms, which have been traditional low-yield annual crop farms (wheat, corn, soy), has led to the conversion of higher-yielding and higher-value “superfoods” and permanent crop farms (tree nuts, avocados, citrus).

Aqua Ceres specializes in originating and managing farmland investment opportunities and has been involved in several permanent crop developments, deploying capital and enhancing these properties to high-yielding profitable farms.

Healthier & More Nutritious

Global population growth, free trade agreements, lower tariffs, and the increase in worldwide numbers of the middle class have led to the shift towards healthier and more nutritious diets. This is escalating the demand for food security and agriculture.  Nowhere has it been more predominant than with “superfoods” and permanent crop plantings.

A massive cropland conversion is underway in the United States, Australia, and across the globe, converting farmland from the traditional annual crops, such as corn, wheat, and soy, to the ‘superfoods’ of permanent crops, such as avocados, citrus, and almonds.

Aqua Ceres is involved in finding ways to channel capital into farmers’ businesses to be able to expand and cater to these markets and develop permanent crops to help meet the increased global demand for healthier, more nutritious food.