93% of EU farms are family farms. Aging owners without successors are exiting, creating a rare window for acquisition.
93% of EU farms are family farms. Aging owners without successors are exiting, creating a rare window for acquisition.
93% of EU farms are family farms. Aging owners without successors are exiting, creating a rare window for acquisition.
93% of EU farms are family farms. Aging owners without successors are exiting, creating a rare window for acquisition.
European agriculture is being rebuilt over the next fifteen years. Who builds it is being decided now.
93% of EU farms are family-owned and most have no successor. The land will change hands regardless. The question is whether it is rebuilt or abandoned.
Up to 5 million hectares of EU farmland could fall out of production by 2030. Land that is cheap today because it is idle, and valuable once it is planted.
Warming is moving subtropical crops – avocado, pistachio, almond – into Southern Europe. The EU still imports over €50B a year in high-value fruit, nuts and protein inputs, three quarters of it from two suppliers. The demand is domestic while the supply is not, yet.
Digital adoption across EU agriculture runs between 3% and 23%. A single 17-hectare farm cannot justify the investment while our portfolio can.
Layer 01 — Capital pooling.
Capital aggregated into large, deployable blocks and committed to a small number of high-conviction farms. Land consolidated with industrial logic from day one.
Layer 02 — Financing & subsidies
Equity, agricultural debt and EU public funding structured into one capital stack. Every euro of equity is put to work against a much larger base of productive assets.
Layer 03 — Nursery & genetics
Yield, resilience and time-to-productivity are decided upstream, in the plant material. We own that layer. It compounds across every hectare and it is the hardest thing to copy.
Layer 04 — AI & robotics
Precision agronomy, farm design and harvest automation built once and deployed across the whole portfolio. What no single farm can afford, once again, the platform can.
Before Perpetual Farms existed, Riccardo Osti backed a Sicilian farmer with a one-hectare avocado pilot. Halaesa is now approaching 300 hectares, on a path to over 500 — one of the largest avocado operations in Europe.
It worked because three things were combined that European agriculture almost never combines: patient capital, industrial farm design, and plant material selected upstream.
Halaesa is a personal investment of our founder and remains independent of Perpetual Farms. It is the reference farm for the playbook we are now industrialising.
Every Perpetual farm is led by an agricultural entrepreneur who keeps control of their farm. We take an equity position, build the capital stack, supply the plant material and run the technology. They run the land.
We find them alongside the best farmers from Europe’s largest farmers’ associations, under a signed referral agreement.
If you are building something serious on European soil and capital is what stands between you and scale, we should talk.
