This blog shares insights shaped by nearly a decade of experience as an investment professional in agribusiness in LATAM, exploring the intersection of agronomy, finance, politics, and climate change. It focuses on how land, water, and capital interact in emerging markets, and reflects on the opportunities, risks, and trade-offs that define sustainable and equitable agricultural development.
The Symbolic Return and the Idealization of the Countryside
In recent decades, the rural world has ceased to be synonymous with backwardness and has become a symbol of authenticity. In an age of digital saturation, the countryside (real or imagined) represents what the city has lost: silence, community, slow time, contact with...
Low Labor Costs as a Competitive Advantage
In the modern agri-food economy, a country’s competitiveness depends not only on its natural or technological conditions, but also on the cost of its labor force. In much of the developing world, including Mexico, low rural wages have become a comparative advantage...
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