Land Legacy Fund
Overview
The Land Legacy Fund’s mission is to acquire and transition farmland to an agroecological, regenerative model that delivers financial returns, social value and environmental benefits.
Farmland is a complex asset that requires expertise and insight to deliver performance across its spectrum of opportunity over the long term.
The Land Legacy team bring the necessary skills, experience and professionalism to build a portfolio of highly valued assets for all our stakeholders — investors, staff and communities.
We buy land.
We manage the transition to multi-output, agroecological systems.
We deliver a best in class asset in perpetuity.
Building value through agroecology
Converting to organic/regenerative
We will transition farmland to deliver value added organic food, timber and other products.
Increasing crop diversity & natural capital
We will increase crop diversity and reduce tillage to build both soil fertility and overall health and therefore the value of the asset.
Investing in people & Infrastructure
We will invest in learning, careers, well paid jobs, equipment and value-add facilities.
Actively managing farmland
We will actively manage our farms to increase revenue, reduce risk and deliver benefit over the lifetime of the investment for all our stakeholders — investors, employees, customers and local communities.
A legacy investment…
Team
Roland Bonney
Roland co-founded Benchmark Holdings plc in 2000 to develop sustainable progress in the food chain with a focus on agriculture, aquaculture and animal health. He co-led the company to a successful flotation on the London (AIM) stock exchange serving on the plc Board as COO and directing an extensive M&A and growth programme.
Roland has over 35 years’ international experience in agriculture and food business having first established his own farming business and a food chain consultancy to blue-chip global food companies including M&S, Tesco, and McDonald’s, prior to building the Benchmark group. He has extensive experience of business development in the US and the emerging Latin American and Asian markets.
Working closely over the years with world leading scientists, farmer led businesses, NGO teams and global food chain partners Roland has a clear understanding and insight into the fundamentals of the food chain and the challenges it faces. He continues to farm himself.
Mobile: +44 7974662016
Email: roland.bonney@agrolo.co.uk
Richard Firth
Richard has over 20 years of business development and management experience spanning a wide range of industry sectors from legal publishing to document storage and latterly commercial property management.
Richard co-founded Global Legal Group (GLG) in 2002, which specialises in providing legal, regulatory and policy information to senior executives, general counsel, law firms and government agencies worldwide.
Richard then took over management of a Yorkshire based document storage business, growing profit threefold in the first 18 months.
Richard has a mixed arable and livestock farm in North Yorkshire where he lives with his wife and two young boys. He has previous experience of arable farming in the UK and a family interest in a sheep and beef farm in Australia which has driven an active desire to see the development of regenerative farming practices.
Richard has a degree in Agricultural Economics and Food Marketing.
Mobile: +44 7980 921149
Landline: +44 1765 658334
Email: richard.firth@agrolo.co.uk
Ran Morgan
Ran has, over the past 25 years, become one of the leading buying agents in the UK farmland and forestry market with an unrivalled network across the industry. He is one of the most experienced and successful agency professionals in the UK rural land sector. Within the last 12 months he has acquired over £70,000,000 of UK farmland and forestry properties for institutional and private investors.
Widely recognised, he has worked all over the UK and has acquired all rural asset classes from commercial farms & forestry, to carbon sequestration investments and residential rural homes. Ran has deep experience of developing investment opportunities that deliver for his clients’ objectives and goals.
Ran was brought up on a mixed arable and livestock farm, which he now runs. He is deeply committed to the sustainable future of UK agriculture and is actively transitioning his own farming to a regenerative model.
He has a Degree in Rural Land Management and is qualified as a Chartered Surveyor.
Mobile: +44 7825 681295
Landine: +44 1576 300016
Email: ran.morgan@agrolo.co.uk
Land Legacy Fund
The Land Legacy Fund benefits from its founders decades of experience in farming, farmland and the global agri/food markets.
“Land, first and last, underpins the security of mankind.”
AGROLO