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Agritech: Capital Discipline and the Localization Turn Across the Global South

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  • Olaniyi Evans

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Agritech across the Global South has moved from a 2021 to 2022 funding peak into a sharp correction. This article synthesises published investment data, primary policy documents, and development and finance theory to argue that the contraction is a structural repricing rather than sectoral decline. Capital is shifting from venture equity for rapid multimarket scaling toward localised, infrastructure-linked models financed through blended instruments. The article frames the shift as a response to coordination failure, tests it against the global venture downturn and the commodity cycle, and draws implications for instrument design, capital concentration, and food security.

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  • Olaniyi Evans, 2026. "Agritech: Capital Discipline and the Localization Turn Across the Global South," Hequation Review, Hequation, vol. 3(2), pages 16-22.
    • Handle: RePEc:heq:heqrev:v3y2026i2a3
    DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.32593704
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    JEL classification:

    • G24 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Investment Banking; Venture Capital; Brokerage
    • O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • Q14 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Finance
    • Q16 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - R&D; Agricultural Technology; Biofuels; Agricultural Extension Services

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