农业是世界经济发展的重要引擎，其在拓展价值链、创造就业机会、削减贫困等方面的重大影响，使跨国间投资不断增加。但投资周期长、受自然影响大、投资回报率低、产品变现难且折损率高等农业生产与经营过程中特有的投资风险也是各国农业在海外投资时必须跨越的难关。为对我国在“一带一路”共建国家农业投资未来发展铺平道路，需要了解其主要类型特征及投资走向的时空格局演变态势，辅以个中典例进行剖析，以求为行业和企业本身“走出去”提出切实有效的操作性建议。
Agricultural industry is an important engine of world economic development. Its influence in expanding value chain，boosting employment and reducing poverty makes transnational investment increase gradually. However，a long-term investment cycle，easily influenced by the weather，low ROI（return on investment），hard to monetize and high depreciation rate are the major difficulties for agricultural external investment. To pave the way for future development of agricultural enterprises，especially for the external investment in the countries along the “Belt and Road”，we need to know the major characteristics and types of agricultural investment，and its changing trend in space and time，with analysis specifically illustrated through typical cases of Chinese enterprises investment overseas，in order to put forward practical and effective operational suggestions for the overseas development of the industry and enterprises themselves.
