About Us
Areas of Focus
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We invest in redesigning how food production is approached in growth and emerging economies. We address the fragmented value chains and lack of technology and create intimately connected and advanced integrated systems.
Production
Processing
Storage and logistics
Market access
Consumer brands
Natural capital opportunities
By investing in integrated future food systems we aim to catalyse vast improvement in productivity, strengthen resilience and create more sustainable long-term returns.
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Many investors identify opportunities. We go beyond and invest in building the relationships, partnerships and operating platforms required to make them work.
We have developed trusted relationships with governments, communities and strategic partners across the regions in which we operate. This experience gives us a practical understanding of how projects need to be structured, financed and delivered to achieve meaningful outcomes at scale.
Agrium Capital combines local knowledge and institutional investment discipline with the unique design approach and technical expertise of Capiconic, creating a platform capable of developing climate-resilient agri-food systems that are commercially and operationally robust.
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The global food system is facing unprecedented challenges.
Climate change, water scarcity, biodiversity loss, land degradation with increasing demand for nutritious food are reshaping how nations think about agriculture and food security.
We believe these challenges also create one of the most significant investment opportunities of our generation.
By investing in climate-resilient food systems today, we can help build stronger economies, healthier communities and more sustainable agricultural landscapes for the future.
Corporate Owner-Operator Model
Rather than purely passive ownership, Agrium Capital establishes local champion special purpose vehicle (SPV) with proven management and at-scale experience.
Geography
Agrium Capital focuses on regions where there is both strong agricultural potential, rapid population growth and a clear need for food system transformation.
These markets offer significant import substitution opportunities. They often have large land bases, strong local demand, attractive productivity and the potential to develop both domestic and export-oriented agri-food systems. They also have an urgent need for investment in climate resilience, food security, water stewardship, land restoration and rural economic development.
Our geographic strategy is focused on markets where investment can help deliver food sovereignty, create local employment, develop champion local brands, restore landscapes and open new routes to regional and international markets.
Rod Bassett,
CEO, Agrium Capital
“There is an unmistakable need for stronger, more resilient food systems. What is missing is catalytic capital and finance structures to deliver investments, at scale, in future food systems where it is needed most. That gap is our investment thesis: climate-resilient, vertically integrated and inclusive agri-food systems can deliver returns that compete for capital anywhere in the world, while simultaneously reducing long-term agricultural risk and strengthening food security. We do not treat financial performance and impact as a trade-off — at this scale, and geographic focus, one depends on the other.
Agrium Capital takes active control across land, farming operations, processing and market channels — capturing value at every layer — and we underwrite each platform against measurable climate, nature and people outcomes with the same rigour we apply to financial return. The result is, institutionally-scaled platforms, each designed to compound in value as we consolidate.
We are not approaching this from a distance. Years of work have gone into the relationships, the project pipeline and the operating capability required to move from ambition to delivery. That combination of trust, capital structuring and delivery capability is what allows us to move at the pace and scale this opportunity demands.”
