Farmland Investments Hold Solutions To Devastating Climate Change

Dec. 17, 2009 - PRLog -- While international negotiations struggle at the Copenhagen summit, the world has been called upon to turn to farmland investments in developing countries.

Climate change, agricultural land and food production are tightly linked in the race to reduce emissions. In order to hit vital targets in emissions reductions, the use of biofuels distilled from crops such as corn and wheat are expanding on governmental demands, but is the cost of taking food from a growing population too great?

Already the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates that $210 billion is needed in agricultural investments every year in order to produce the required amount of food, 70 percent more than is needed now, as the population grows to reach 9 million by 2050.

Despite this extra demand, supply is falling. One hectare of arable land is lost every seven seconds.

Finding underutilised agricultural land and making it productive and therefore profitable is leading a surge of interest from investors, picking up on the growing gap between supply and demand.

One such country at the focus of interest is Ukraine, where 70% of the land is arable, and conditions are perfect for mass farming, with the country holding 40% of the world’s rich black soil.

One company running an investment project in the Crimean region of the country, close to the major export port of Sevastopol, is London-based Aston Lloyd Agri-Commodities Plc.

“We believe this is a unique asset, and one that all investors who worry about climate change and food security should add to their portfolio” says Joseph Upchurch, Managing Director at Aston Lloyd.

And analysts agree;

“Ukraine could be the world’s best bet for keeping food plentiful and cheap” says Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne in The Atlantic Magazine in August 2009.

Aston Lloyd is offering investors an annual income stream on the sale of crops, and capital gains on the increasing value of the land, as it is cultivated and improved on, it will be worth more. Using a Ukraine-based farm management company, the project has been highly successful in its first seven months, and enters 2010 with a project expansion, as the business of feeding the world and fighting climate change gets bigger.

For more information download our project brochure at http://www.astonlloyd.co.uk/ukrainebrochure-sp/

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About Aston Lloyd: Aston Lloyd Holdings Plc is a leading global development and investment company, specialising in innovative property and commodities projects in the rapidly growing emerging markets. Situated in the heart of the city of London, and led by a team with over 30 years of experience in investment projects, we are leading the way in high capital gains investment abroad.