Hi, I’m Alex. I’m from London and I live in Lisbon. Along with my co-founder, Nathan Hadlock (USA), I’m the founder of an organisation called Pela Terra - Portuguese for “Of the Earth”.

We have spent our recent years methodically studying the pain points of a Golden Visa seeker’s journey, speaking with hundreds of existing and prospective GV investors. These insights, along with a will to improve the marketplace, has allowed us to bring a better-fitting product to market, having solved for each point of risk along the investor journey.

I hope to have an opportunity to talk you through these simple but innovative solutions, and how we can offer the smoothest and safest path for you and your family to a Portuguese Golden Visa.

More on Pela Terra
Our long term vision is of a world in which human interests are pursued in concert with the natural world.

Over the next five years, that means offering profitable investments with stable returns from sustainable crops.

In recent years we have recognised that the Golden Visa program is a brilliant fit for fundraising into “impact investments”.

Partially, that is because farmland offers uniquely stable and resilient protection to the principal capital which is invested to qualify for the GV program.

As an asset class, farmland does not cycle up and down in the same way conventional real estate does. This means our investors are not subjected to the same downside risk of the underlying asset losing its value.

That fact alone puts us head and shoulders above our competition in terms of our ability to keep your money safe.

Reducing that market risk, in favour of stability, means that a combination of steady returns and citizenship in Portugal make for a great package to offer investors, in exchange for funding food security, environmental progress and broader growth in the sustainable agriculture movement.

Soil is the largest terrestrial carbon sink on Earth.

An investment that increases our capacity to manage food growth in a carbon-negative way, and increases the soil’s capacity to sequester and store carbon, is literally pushing back against climate change as hard as any other initiative known to mankind.