Why you should buy into agricultural infrastructure

Food prices may be high at the moment, but that doesn't mean they will keep on rising. If you want to get in on the agriculture boom, infrastructure is the way to go.

Robert Jenkins, chairman of the Investment Management Association, couldn't have picked a better time to have a go at his industry. Speaking at the body's annual dinner last week, he criticised "our product development folks" for luring investors into fad sectors at the top of their cycles, says Kathryn Cooper in The Sunday Times.

In 1999 it was dotcom funds. Last year it was property funds and now, with rising food prices rarely out of the news, it's agriculture funds. Eclectica Asset Management launches its second agriculture fund in June and Barclays and Barings are introducing similar products.

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