In 2018 something remarkable happened to Mr and Mrs Scheper, two retired medical doctors from Germany. They had discovered that their retirement provider was co-invested in a fund in South America, whose farming operations had been accused of gross social and environmental misconduct (Schwab 2018). As decades-old supporters of indigenous struggles in Brazil (with personal experience in the field), they were particularly shocked at what seemed to have happened to their retirement savings. This discovery was remarkable, because they got a glimpse of capital's own methods, the transnational circuits of money that evolve from it and the potential local impacts of these flows – a rare moment in the world of distantiated and delegation-based investment chains. Although the case of the fund under scrutiny remains hotly debated, this real-life story returns us to a key concern of this book: to open the black box of finance's role in farming, to engage critically with the institutional landscapes that have emerged from this trend in different historio-geographical settings and to explore how this has affected the structure, management, control and ownership of different agricultural ventures. In pursuing this goal, I have also aimed to fill some gaps that are rarely talked about in the existing debate, such as engaging with the data problem related to the finance-driven land rush, the role of the state as a regulator and potential source of investor information, the layered moral struggles related to the assetization of farming and the question of what role “finance” – broadly defined – can play in achieving more sustainable and just food futures. Well aware that the assetization of farming is more than just about farmland, this book has often reached out to assetization dynamics at the pre-and post-farm-gate stages, and provided the intellectual resources to understand the emergence, operation and internal universe of “agriculture as an alternative asset class” in broader terms. This broader view is also important against the backdrop of more recent dynamics. With the increasing entry of financial investors into the “AG tech” sector in recent years, finance now increasingly touches farming from two sides: the ownership of land and other farm assets, and the technologies used to control and manage production across time and space.