Welcome to the Agrivista Journal

For more than a decade, Agrivista International has worked alongside governments, investors, and agribusinesses to build agricultural ventures that endure. The Journal is where we begin to share the thinking behind that work — openly, and in long form.

Why now

Our clients increasingly ask the same set of questions. How should a sovereign food strategy weigh local production against imports? When does agri-technology earn its place on a balance sheet, and when is it noise? What does a credible feasibility study look like in a region without prior baseline data?

These are not questions with five-minute answers. They are the kind of questions that benefit from being worked through in writing — with evidence, with caveats, and with the patience that consulting engagements alone don't always allow for.

What you can expect here

We expect to publish on three recurring themes:

• Field reports — observations from active projects, anonymised where needed, but specific enough to be useful.
• Sector analysis — perspectives on livestock, crop production, and agri-infrastructure across the markets we operate in.
• Method notes — how we approach the work itself: feasibility studies, partner selection, technology evaluation, and post-implementation review.

We will not be publishing on a fixed schedule. The aim is to write when there is something worth saying, and to write it well.

A note on perspective

Agricultural development is a domain where confident generalisations age poorly. Climates differ. Institutions differ. The capital available to a sovereign-backed greenhouse programme in the Gulf has little in common with what reaches a smallholder cooperative in the Horn of Africa. We will try to be specific about which contexts our conclusions apply to, and honest about where we are uncertain.

If you would like to discuss any of the topics we cover — or have a project you'd like to bring to us — please get in touch.