Agland is an international agricultural and development consulting firm with 34 years of experience providing sustainable global agricultural and agribusiness consulting services.  Agland provides services worldwide to managers, landowners, and investors in agriculture and agribusiness.  Based in California, Agland has experience working in over 30 countries with more than 200 crops and countless other agricultural commodities. Food security plans are also a particular specialty.

Projects have included a wide range of agricultural issues including start-up ventures in agribusiness, agricultural development plans for foreign governments, and the provision of consulting services for major corporations with agribusiness interests. Clients include development institutions, such as U.S. Agency for International Development, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and U.S. Trade and Development Agency, as well as private investors, land owners, and corporations, such as Wells Fargo Bank, Kamehameha Foundation (largest land owner in Hawaii), Labatt Brewing, Accenture and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Agland also works with a number of small and medium size land owners and farming operations.

Approach

Agland takes an entrepreneurial approach and has experience working with agriculture at every stage of the value chain.  Agland is unique in that many of its projects involve mobilizing the private sector, whether small farmers or large commercial farms, to achieve economic development goals.  Agland has the expertise required to provide technical input and link key stakeholders along the market chain to develop agribusiness enterprises.  They have been instrumental in establishing several very successful crop-based integrated agribusiness programs in developing economies, as well as California.

WHAT THEY DO

Agland provides a wide range of economic, financial, technical, farm management, and market consultation to governments, agricultural producers, food processors, and public sector entities in the U.S and around the world. The company is unique in several ways: 

First, Agland is one of a few companies that specialize in development and innovation in the agriculture and food sector for both public and private sector clients. 

Second, Agland is headquartered in California, the most diverse agriculture and value-added food economy in the world. Throughout the years, their work with their Californian client-base has led to a high-level of expertise in a wide range of food and agriculture sectors. Additionally, Agland projects often focus on the total food supply chain, from farm to table, and Agland has close ties to food importers, brokers, technology suppliers, and investors based in California. 

Third, Agland has led the development of food and agriculture entrepreneurial ventures, as well as the development of new industries, from the ground up.  Agland’s expertise also includes the financing of new or expanding enterprises.

Agland’s years of experience and returning client base are a testament to the quality of service and timeliness of performance that Agland provides its clients.  Agland has consistently assembled and managed consulting teams of expert consultants who have successfully worked together in addressing diverse agricultural, economic, and environmental issues.