Agro-Ecological Investment Management (AEIM)
Agro-Ecological Investment Management is the leading ecological farmland asset management business. We specialise in the ecological investment management of farmland for pension funds, endowment funds, family offices, wealth managers/investment managers and HNWI investors.
Agro-Ecological is the only agricultural asset management firm concentrating solely on organic/ecological agriculture.
Our goal is to provide access for investors to farmland as an asset class and to generate excellent long-term financial and ecological returns from their investment.
We have significant long term experience and expertise in the ecological management of farmland, which enables us to identify attractive and appropriate opportunities for investment. The Agro-Ecological team combine hands-on farming expertise and technical excellence with strong portfolio management skills to generate optimal ecological and investment returns.
Our primary investment location is New Zealand, where a remarkable opportunistic landscape currently exists for investors in farmland. Our global reach also extends to the United States where demand growth remains strong and many markets remain significantly undersupplied, and to South America (Uruguay).
Agro-Ecological is exclusively focused on profitable, sustainable and ecologically literate farmland asset management.
This in effect makes sustainable and responsible investment a core and defining quality of our entire business.
Agro-Ecological is poised to launch the Agro-Ecological Farmland Fund; the world’s first organic farmland fund.
Ethical Policy
The benefits of organic production are delivered in social, health and environmental terms. They include reversing the decline in biodiversity, reductions in environmental pollution and in the levels of pesticide residues in food.
The International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) offers the following as part of its description of the environmental benefits of organic agriculture.
“Through its holistic nature, organic farming integrates wild biodiversity, agro-biodiversity and soil conservation, and takes low-intensity, extensive farming one step further by eliminating the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and genetically modified organisms GMOs, which is not only an improvement for human health, but also for the fauna and flora associated with the farm and farm environment.
Organic farming enhances soil structures, conserves water and ensures the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.”
The Principles of Organic agriculture are as follows:
- Principle of Health - Organic Agriculture should sustain and enhance the health of soil, plant, animal, human and planet as one and indivisible.
- The Principle of Ecology - Organic Agriculture should be based on living ecological systems and cycles, work with them, emulate them and help sustain them.
- The Principle of Fairness - Organic Agriculture should build on relationships that ensure fairness with regard to the common environment and life opportunities
- The Principle of Care - Organic Agriculture should be managed in a precautionary and responsible manner to protect the health and well-being of current and future generations and the environment.
These themes and principles underpin our entire business and how we conduct ourselves. Ethical, sustainable and ecological approaches are not merely aspects of our business, they are the defining modes of our entire operation.
Agro-Ecological Investment Management (AEIM) is listed in the following categories
Financial / Investment FundsGardening & Farming / Gardening & Farming Services
Financial / Social Investment Organisations
Property / Eco Property Developers
