Producing enough food to serve growing populations in the face of climate change is a major challenge for society in the 21st century. That hasn't stopped one joint venture in the logistics real estate market from trying to address it — and in the process, open up a new world of potential tenants. “How do we feed our people, how do we prevent mass migration due to climate change?” SmartParc CEO and founder Jackie Wild said of her operating company's lofty ambitions. “Because hunger means war, and war means enormous amounts of migration.” 
SmartParc aims to bring together food manufacturing and production businesses in specialist industrial and logistics parks in a way Wild said has rarely happened before. And it has teamed up with industrial specialist Segro, Europe’s largest REIT, to build and manage 2M SF in the UK’s Midlands…  Read the full story here. | 
