1992, Volume 2, Paper 20
ISSN 2209-6612

Venturing in Food and Agribusiness

Brian Hanley – Chief Executive Officer of Gresham Rabo Management Limited
Stuart Giglia – Associate of Gresham Rabo Management Limited

Abstract

The food and agribusiness industries of Australia and New Zealand are economically important, diverse, largely inaccessible to public capital markets and entering the threshold of fundamental change.

Australia may have abandoned its “riding on the sheep’s back” rhetoric, but the investment community at large has yet to fully appreciated the difference between Agriculture and Agribusiness. Agribusiness refers to the industry or activity that is involved in the transfer of primary products, such as wheat and wool, to manufactured goods or services – value adding. Agriculture is the production of the previously mentioned commodities.

The economic credentials of the food and agribusiness sectors highlight the important levers of change that will generate investment opportunities, and demonstrate the case for venture capital to these industries.

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