The importance of profitability AND sustainability

'We are citizens of the planet'

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Over the next 40 years or so, we will need to produce as much food as we have grown in our entire history.

To grow more crops, we have cleared grasslands and forests the size of South America and to raise more livestock, we have cleared an area almost the size of Africa. Today, agricultural production emits greenhouse gases in excess of all transportation vehicles in use. You might question the relevance of this information from an investment perspective. The answer is simple: as active owners, we are enablers of progress. Why investors are focusing on companies' farm animal welfare policies - and what more needs to be done Unique opportunities exist at the intersection of technologi...

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