Five ways to profit from the new agriculture revolution

In the 1960s, new agricultural technology tripled crop yields. Now there is a second green revolution going on. Eoin Gleeson looks at the latest developments – and tips the five best ways to profit.

There is a second green revolution going on in agriculture. Eoin Gleeson looks at the latest developments and how to buy a stake in their future.

On 26 February last year, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened for business. Built by the Norwegian government on a remote outcrop of the Svalbard Archipelago, the underground complex was designed to preserve hundreds of thousands of seed types from across the globe. For months, ships from more than 100 countries docked to unload millions of seeds of remarkable diversity more than 200,000 strains of wheat and 30,000 of corn are locked in a chamber deep beneath the Arctic tundra.

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Eoin came to MoneyWeek in 2006 having graduated with a MLitt in economics from Trinity College, Dublin. He taught economic history for two years at Trinity, while researching a thesis on how herd behaviour destroys financial markets.