Agribusiness and food systems are at the heart of global development and competitiveness. With the world's population expected to exceed 9 billion by 2050, demand for food will rise sharply even as climate change, water scarcity, and shifting trade flows reshape supply. Beyond feeding populations, agribusiness drives industrialization, exports, and rural transformation. Value-added processing industries generate jobs, diversify economies, and build resilience against commodity volatility.

For governments, investing in agribusiness strengthens food security and fiscal stability. For corporates, it opens scalable opportunities in FMCG, logistics, and processing. For investors, agriculture represents one of the fastest-growing global industries — spanning farmland, inputs, processing, and distribution — provided risks are mitigated and structures are credible.

Despite vast potential, agribusiness remains underdeveloped and undercapitalized in many markets:

The result is lost opportunities for competitiveness, exports, and resilience.

Fitch Advisory works across the value chain to transform agriculture into a globally competitive, investment-ready sector. Our advisory includes:

By combining financial structuring with value-chain integration, we ensure that agriculture becomes a driver of industrial competitiveness, not subsistence.