Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food
Koen van Seijen
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Cathryn Couch served 1m medically tailored meals to low income people with health challenges
Food is medicine but could also be poison says Cathryn Couch, founder and CEO for Ceres Community Project, who has served over 1m organic medically tailored meals to low income people struggling because of a health challenge.
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Ceres Community Project is a non-profit organization working to foster health by connecting people to one another and to a healthier food system.
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Jan 12, 2021
Soil Builders, 40M for carbon farming in AU and transitioning a 1000a farm using regenerative approaches
A check in interview with Lachy Ritchie, co founder of Agtalent and Carbon Farming Foundation who is getting ready to invest 40M in carbon farming. Plus Tyler and Tim Nuss of The Modern Acre, who are transitioning their 1000 acres row crop vegetable farm using regenerative approaches.
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In the Soil Builders series we welcome back previous friends of the podcast to understand their progress and we discover new companies, startups, farmers, investors engaged in building soil all over the world.
More about this episode and the Soil Builders series on https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/soil-builders-4/
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Jan 5, 2021
Gina Pattisson on how to raise more than half a million euros during a pandemic
How can one raise capital during a global pandemic? The special guest of the 100th episode of the podcast is *Gina Pattisson,* founding team member of Soil Heroes. Make nature everyone’s business and get farmers paid for the ecosystem services they provide the world are the goals of Soil Heroes.
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What can we learn from a very experienced non-profit fundraiser who has joined a regenerative agriculture tech startup two years ago? During this pandemic Gina had to pivot fundraising plans completely but nevertheless was still able to raise more than half a million euros.
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Dec 30, 2020
6 things we accomplished in 2020
As the year ends we would like to share with you our main accomplishments and discoveries of this 2020!
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A video course based on Pay What You Think It’s Worth actually works, 40 episodes, 8 webinars, the new Soil Builders series, the Transition Finance for Farmers with Benedikt series, move to Gumroad: these are the six main things we accomplished this year.
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Dec 28, 2020
What we learned in 2020 on nutrition, inequality, ownership, health, agroforestry, profitability, soil
Our key lessons from over 40 long interviews, many webinars and a complete series on Transition Finance for Farmers done in 2020.
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*WOW, that was a very intense year! It is hard to believe this was only 12 months.
*The attention for food and agriculture has absolutely exploded, and many of our eating habits have completely changed.
Everyone who is selling directly and indirectly to consumers had to deal with massive growth, which has been really tough.
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Dec 15, 2020
99 Sam Schiller on why 100 dollars per tonne of CO2e stored is key to kick start regen ag and how to get there
Soil carbon models greatly underestimate the potential of regenerative agriculture. We discussed about it with *Sam Schiller,* founder and CEO of Carbon Yield.
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Carbon Yield helps farmers access new revenue streams in the carbon markets. How can 100 dollars per tonne of CO2e stored become the key to kick start regenerative agriculture? How can we get there? These are the exciting questions we asked to *Sam Schiller*.
More about this episode on: https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/sam-schiller.
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Dec 8, 2020
98 Frank Wooten on how virtual fencing unlocks the potential of carbon positive grazing at scale
An episode with *Frank Wooten,* CEO and founder of Vence, a reinvented livestock production that centers in virtual fencing and autonomous animal control. Vence’s mission is to lower the price and to increase the availability of sustainable animal protein around the world.
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How did an investment banker move into the interest of livestock grazing? How did he and his team end up updating a 10,000 year old technology, the humble fence? These are the questions that we will be answering in today’s episode of Investing in Regenerative Agriculture with our special guest *Frank Wooten*.
More about this episode on: https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2020/12/08/frank-wooten.
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Dec 1, 2020
Soil Builders, using a bond to scale regenerative approaches in West Africa
An interview with Emiliano Mroue, co founder of the WARC group, on how they are applying regenerative approaches with smallholder farmers in Ghana and Sierra Leone.
And how they are raising capital through the innovative New African Farmers Bond to scale their work.
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In the Soil Builders series we welcome back previous friends of the podcast to understand their progress and we discover new companies, startups, farmers, investors engaged in building soil all over the world.
More about this episode and the Soil Builders series on https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2020/12/01/soil-builders-3/
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Nov 24, 2020
97 Ethan Soloviev, enormous lack of regenerative ingredients for food companies and what to do about it
This is a check in interview with Ethan Soloviev, chief innovation officer of HowGood, a good friend of the podcast and one of the leaders in the regenerative food and agriculture space, where we talk about the regen hype. Where are we?
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*Main topics of the interview:*
* Regenerative business
* Regenerative investing
* The lack of ingredients grown with regenerative approaches and what large and small food companies are doing about that
More about this episode on: https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2020/11/24/ethan-soloviev-2.
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Nov 17, 2020
96 Pierre Weill on selling 2b euro a year of animal protein as anti inflammatory food
A deep dive into nutrient density on how *Pierre Weill, co-founder of the non-profit organization Bleu-Blanc-Coeur*, created a 2b euro a year certification program, paying farmers more for better quality food.
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Let food be thy medicine! Farmers hold the key to our health, how do we pay them for it?
What is the real impact on your health from what you eat? And maybe more importantly how that food has been grown or, in case of animal protein, what those animals have eaten? How can we maximize nutritional and environmental quality while maintaining the health of our animals and the food we eat?
More about this episode on: https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2020/11/17/*pierre-weill*/.
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Nov 10, 2020
95 Greg Shewmaker, what is in our food? Why we can’t answer this fundamental question
We still can’t answer food’s most basic question: what is in it. Unless we can measure nutrient density on the farm, regen ag will never deliver its promise. These are some of the questions we tackle in this check in interview with *Greg Shewmaker co-founder of Teak Origin.* Last time we talked about that most food you buy in the supermarket has hardly any nutrients in it.
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This time we dive deeper into the differences and discover some very interesting data on organic vs non organic when looking at the nutrients at the farm gate, compared to the super market shelve.…
Nov 3, 2020
Soil Builders, updates on green bonds in regen ag and the land ownership in the commons in the US
Ian McSweeney of the Agrarian Trust and Fabio Sakamoto of Rizoma Agro are the guests of the new episode of the Soil Builders series. In the series we welcome back previous friends of the podcast to understand their progress and we discover new companies, startups, farmers, investors engaged in building soil all over the world.
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Previous interview connected with this episode:
* Ian McSweeney
https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2018/08/21/ian-mcsweeney/
* Fabio Sakamoto
https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2020/06/30/fabio-sakamoto/
* Sea…
Oct 27, 2020
94 Robin Saluoks and Kristjan Luha, building the biggest farmers union in the world, already covering 1m hectares on 1500 farmers
How do we get thousands of farmers and millions of hectares to transition towards applying more regenerative practises? This is the primary question answered today by *Robin Saluoks *and *Kristjan Luha*, co- founders of eAgronom. eAgronom is a platform that enables farmers to manage and oversee their entire farm, employees, and fields. It was built by farmers for farmers. Its primary aim is to help farmers learn how they can run a more profitable farm and have more time to spend with their family.
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Building trust, creating value and giving really great advice. That is wha…
Oct 20, 2020
Ask Me Anything Webinar Recording - October 13th
The forth Ask Me Anything webinar was an opportunity for the Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food community to come together and ask Koen van Seijen and everyone else on the call their burning questions regarding building a regenerative food system and the video course we launched in last months (https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/video-course/).
Find the topics discussed and the links on:
https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/ama-webinar-10-13-2020.
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Oct 12, 2020
93 Zach Bush, why all health issues come back to how we treat the soil
How did a medical doctor end up going deep, very deep on soil, and discovering that almost all health issues can be traced back to how we treat our soils? Learn about the role of glyphosate and other chemicals and why after seeing all this doom and gloom, he actually has a lot of hope for the human species.
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In this episode we welcome today *Dr. Zach Bush*, a renowned multidisciplinary physician of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, Hospice Care, and internationally recognized educator on the Microbiome as it relates to health, human health, soil health, food systems, and a…
Oct 6, 2020
Audio QA Webinar Abby Rose, role of agtech in regen ag
This is the audio of the QA webinar with Abby Rose, regen farmer, agtech founder and co-host of Farmerama.
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Some topics we discussed:
* how ag technology should help farmers with observing their soil
* the power of beauty
* first exit of a regen ag tech company (PastureMap to Soilworks, see links below)
* going from observation to action (what does the farmer do with the data?)
* offering the farmer choice
* regenerative organic certification
* profitability of regen ag?!
* what is keeping Abby up at night
* what soil tests ranchers shoul…
Sep 29, 2020
92 Chris Newman, busting the single family farm myth and why indigenous collectives are the way to go
An episode that goes deep into the issues of single family farms and the potential of collectives to manage whole landscapes way more effectively to produce more food and wealth. *Chris Newman,* *founder of Sylvanaqua Farms,* joins us for another riveting conversation about regenerative agriculture.
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Why does regenerative agriculture not scale beyond the often single family farm? What if we unleash the power of economies of scale specialization and actually build wealth within regenerative agriculture? What does inclusion mean within farming? Why does seed keepers and lives…
Sep 22, 2020
Soil Builders, checking in with Zach Weiss on water cycles and a biodynamic baby food startup
*Zach Weiss* and *Keith Rowe* are the first guests of the new Soil Builders series. In the series we welcome back previous friends of the podcast to understand their progress and we discover new companies, startups, farmers, investors engaged in building soil all over the world.
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Discover the previous interview with Zach Weiss of Elemental Ecosystems:
https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2019/02/03/zach-weiss/
Keith is the co-founder of White Leaf Provisions:
https://www.whiteleafprovision.com/
More about this episode and the Soil Builders series on https://in…
Sep 15, 2020
91 Clint Brauer, why robotics are key to scale regen ag without chemicals
*Clint Brauer *of Greenfield Robotics talks about the key role robotics are going to play in the next 20 years on scaling regenerative agriculture across millions of acres.
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It is relatively early, but the first signs are promising. We just might be witnessing the start of a robotics revolution in agriculture, helping farmers to grow their soils faster. Listen to the conversation between Koen van Seijen and Clint Brauer of Greenfield Robotics.
More about this episode on:
https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2020/09/15/clint-brauer/.
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Sep 1, 2020
Final episode Transition Finance for Farmers with Benedikt
The final episode of the special series dedicated to Transition Finance for Farmers in regenerative agriculture and food with the co-hosts Koen van Seijen and Benedikt Bösel.
In this series Koen is joined by Benedikt Bösel, owner of the Gut&Bösel farm (www.gutundboesel.org) and former Venture Capitalist with a focus on environmental technologies and AgTech startups. Discover their journey to find out what are the key principles of transition finance for regenerative farmers. Find out more on
investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/transition-finance-series
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Aug 25, 2020
90 Ed Byrne, if regen food doesn't taste amazing and doesn’t make money it won't go anywhere
A conversation about scale and business and the key role of decentralised processing in regenerative agriculture with Ed Byrne, co-founder of Soil Works. He has launched an investment firm first investing its own money into accelerating regenerative farming.
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Listen to the conversation between Ed Byrne and Koen van Seijen also about the importance of taste to make a profit and its impact on consumers.
Other topics: decentralized processing, quality over quantity and the importante of taste.
More about this episode on:
https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2020/0…
Aug 18, 2020
Transition Finance for Farmers with Benedikt - Thomas Kliemt-Rippel, Kulturland Genossenschaft
*Thomas Kliemt-Rippel of* *Kulturland Genossenschaft* is the seventh guest of the Transition Finance for Farmers with Benedikt Series. This episode is about the role of the crowd in transition finance.
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Koen van Seijen and Benedikt Bösel are the co-hosts of this special series dedicated to Transition Finance in regenerative agriculture and food (investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/transition-finance-series/)
In this series Koen is joined by Benedikt Bösel, owner of the Gut&Bösel farm (www.gutundboesel.org) and former Venture Capitalist with a focus on environmental technologies and AgTech startups. Follow them on their journey to find out what are the key principles of transition finance for regenerative farmers.
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*Welcome to Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food.*
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Aug 11, 2020
89 Jeroen Klompe on building a fair farmers first marketplace
An interview with *Jeroen Klompe, co-founder of Klompe Landbouw and Soil Heroes, *on why everything starts with biodiversity above and below ground.
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Learn how one of the most advanced regenerative farmers in the Netherlands is setting up a fair farmers first marketplace to connect farmers with buyers of ecosystem services. It is not just about carbon removal, but also biodiversity and water storage. It might not be the most sexy part of regenerative agriculture but it is absolutely crucial. How do we pay farmers for all the other services they provide, beyond the food,…
Aug 10, 2020
Video Course on Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food
We're thrilled to launch of the Online Video Course Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food, a series of currently 17 short videos (10-15min) plus downloadable slides with the lessons learned by the team of the Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food podcast.
We think it is time to share our lessons learned! We have been following the regenerative agriculture and food space since 2011 and after recording over 100+ interviews with investors, fund managers, farmers, scientists since 2016, always asking the question 'how to put money to work in regenerating soils at scale and growing a lot of tasty food while doing so?'
Find out more on https://gum.co/GgGixE
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Aug 4, 2020
88 Elaine Ingham on why healthy soils don't need rotations
In this episode with Dr. Elaine Ingham, world’s foremost soil biologist and founder of Dr. Elaine’s Soil Food Web, we discussed about soils. What do you know about soils? Not nearly enough!
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Learn more with Elaine Ingham about nematodes, bacteria, fungi, who are “the good guys and the bad guys”, why healthy soils don’t need rotations, how plants actually feed themselves and why you don’t need expensive chemical inputs that just benefit the input companies.
More about this episode on: https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2020/08/04/elaine-ingham.
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Jul 28, 2020
87 Richard Focken on how German pension funds are investing significantly in sustainable agroforestry
In this episode together with Richard Focken, co-founder and current CEO of 12Tree, we talk about how make agroforestry investable and bankable, the barriers for institutional investors to invest and the successes they achieved after years of research and hard work.
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How can we scale agroforestry to have the impact we need in terms of climate, biodiversity social impact and food and fibers? With *Richard Focken, CEO of 12Tree, *we explore the 4 year due diligence which lead to a German pension fund investing 200m into agroforestry.
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Jul 21, 2020
86 Paula Costa and Valter Ziantoni, scaling agroforestry by complexifying growing systems using software
In this episode with Paula Costa and Valter Ziantoni of Pretaterra, an innovative way of thinking complex and regenerative ancestral production systems for a changing planet, we unpack the wonders of agroforestry, the opportunities, the challenges and why it is having its breakthrough now.
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Koen van Seijen interviews Paula Costa and Valter Ziantoni of Pretaterra about the wonders of agroforestry. They also discuss how to systemize agroforestry design, complexify growing systems, as well as the financial aspect of design planning.
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Jul 20, 2020
Trailer podcast Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food
Join the host Koen van Seijen as he is trying in the conversations with pioneers in the regenerative food and agriculture space to learn more on how to put our money to work to *regenerate soil, people, local communities and ecosystems* while making an *appropriate and fair return*.
Why the focus on soil and regeneration? Because so many of the pressing issues we face today have their roots in *how we treat our land, grow our food and what we eat*. And it’s time that we, as investors big and small and consumers, start paying much more attention to the dirt/ soil underneath our feet.
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Jul 14, 2020
85 John Kempf, what would he do with a 1 billion dollar investment fund?
John Kempf, founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture (AEA) and host of Regenerative Agriculture Podcast, is back on the podcast to discuss his book on Regenerative Agriculture, developing AI agronomist, and influencing farmers to ask better questions.
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*AI agronomist, making regenerative advice accessible to all. How important is it to preserve information regarding Regenerative Agriculture? *An interview with John Kempf on why healthy plants are not affected by pests and diseases issue, as well as John’s priorities in creating new projects. We talk about his book, his work…
Jul 7, 2020
84 Russ Conser on using birds to sell climate positive beef and why regeneration is inevitable
*Russ Conser, co-founder of StandardSoil and BlueNest Beef,* discusses the potential of soil carbon in regenerative agriculture, the role of regenerative entrepreneurs and the science behind livestock farming.
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This is the story of how a* former Shell engineer *and *manager *discovered the potential of soil carbon and the key role of regenerative entrepreneurs to find profitable business models to get regen products from the farmers to the consumers.
More about this episode on: https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2020/07/07/russ-conser.
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Jun 30, 2020
83 Fabio Sakamoto, growing large scale Brazilian regenerative organic agriculture
A conversation with Fabio Sakamoto, co-founder of Rizoma Agro, about bringing down the costs of producing regenerative organic grains and pulses and how to scale this to impact more acres.
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*How do we scale regenerative organic grain production to the point where it is cheaper than conventional extractive agriculture? *After 15 years working in management consulting and private equity, Brazilian entrepreneur Fabio Sakamoto decided to join his partner Pedro Paulo Diniz on a mission to revert the climate crisis by scaling regenerative organic agriculture.
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Jun 23, 2020
82 Bastien Sachet, how Nestlè and Ferrero are decommodifying their supply chains
A conversation with *Bastien Sachet, CEO of the Earthworm Foundation*, on the role of the largest commodity buyers and brands in the world in the regenerative transitions.
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In this episode Koen van Seijen and the CEO of The Earthworm Foundation, Bastien Sachet discuss the work of The Earthworm Foundation and where they started. This is a deep dive into the importance of managing forests and soils. The key is a humble approach for large brands and commodity buyers as they need a more holistic view to shift from extractive to regenerative.
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Jun 16, 2020
Transition Finance for Farmers with Benedikt - Phil Taylor and Brandon Welch, Mad Agriculture
*Phil Taylor and Brandon Welch of Mad Agriculture* are the sixth guests of the Transition Finance for Farmers with Benedikt Series.
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In this series Koen is joined by Benedikt Bösel, owner of the Gut&Bösel farm (www.gutundboesel.org) and former Venture Capitalist with a focus on environmental technologies and AgTech startups. Follow them on their journey to find out what are the key principles of transition finance for regenerative farmers.
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Jun 12, 2020
QA webinar with Geert van der Veer, Herenboeren, about community owned regen farms
This is the audio of the QA webinar with Geert van der Veer. Listen how Herenboeren is building this movement of community owned regenerative farms.
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How does Herenboeren go about in finding farmers who are able to manage multi crop and livestock farms?
- Is the current crisis raising the interest in regen local food?
- What could be the role of broad row cropping like grain, in these systems?
- How to make these systems accessible to low income groups as well?
- What is the difference between consumers and owners in the food system?
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Jun 9, 2020
81 Dan Miller, crowdfunding and its key role in regenerative agriculture
Is investing in regenerative agriculture and food only for large investors? An interview with Dan Miller, founder of crowd investing platform Steward.
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Dan and Koen unravel the role of the crowd in the financing, the growth of regenerative agriculture, and how the current crisis is speeding up everything. They also talk about how Dan financed the first deals himself on the platform (www.gosteward.com).
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Jun 6, 2020
Ask Me Anything Webinar Recording - June 4th
The third Ask Me Anything webinar was an opportunity for the Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food community to come together and ask Koen van Seijen and everyone else on the call their burning questions regarding building a regenerative food system.
Find the topics discussed and the links on:
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Jun 2, 2020
80 Jonathan Lundgren - Regen ag much more profitable than extractive ag?!
A conversation with Dr. Jonathan Lundgren, director of the nonprofit Regenerative Agriculture Research Center, the ECDYSIS Foundation, and the CEO of Blue Dasher farm in South Dakota.
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Dr. Lundgren, ex USDA scientist turner farmer, proved the profitability of regenerative grain farms and he is now working on almonds and livestock.
* What is the role of science and scientists in the regenerative agriculture revolution?
* Why are there so few peer-reviewed papers on regen ag?
* Why does it seem like advanced regenerative farmers are doing things whi…
May 30, 2020
Ask Me Anything Recording - April 29th
The second Ask Me Anything webinar was an opportunity for the Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food community to come together and ask Koen van Seijen and everyone else on the call their burning questions regarding building a regenerative food system.
Find the topics discussed and the links on www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/ama-webinar-4-29-2020/.
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May 26, 2020
Transition Finance for Farmers with Benedikt - Nicolas Verschuere, Soil Capital
The co-founder and COO of Soil Capital, Nicolas Verschuere, is the fifth guest of the Transition Finance for Farmers Series.
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In this series Koen is joined by Benedikt Bösel, owner of the Gut&Bösel farm (www.gutundboesel.org) and former Venture Capitalist with a focus on environmental technologies and AgTech startups. Follow them on their journey to find out what are the key principles of transition finance for regenerative farmers.
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May 24, 2020
Ask Me Anything Recording - April 8th
The first Ask Me Anything webinar was an opportunity for the Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food community to come together and ask Koen van Seijen and everyone else on the call their burning questions regarding building a regenerative food system.
Find the topics discussed and the links on: www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/ama-webinar-4-8-2020/.
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May 19, 2020
79 Wood Turner and Atish Babu, how to build the ideal regenerative fund structure
In this interview, we take on this challenge with regenerative agriculture fund managers Wood Turner and Atish Babu of Agriculture Capital. Together they have raised 800 million across two funds for permanent crops in the last six years.
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With Wood Turner and Atish Babu we talk about key points, how did they start their mission in regenerative agriculture, how do they think about the future, how would they structure the ideal regenerative fund, and many more!
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May 12, 2020
Transition Finance for Farmers with Benedikt - Bert Mulder, Tomasu
Bert Mulder of Tomasu Soy Sauce, a product that really goes from soil to plate, is the fourth guest of the Transition Finance for Farmers Series.
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In this series Koen is joined by Benedikt Bösel, owner of the Gut&Bösel farm (www.gutundboesel.org) and former Venture Capitalist with a focus on environmental technologies and AgTech startups. Follow them on their journey to find out what are the key principles of transition finance for regenerative farmers.
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May 5, 2020
78 Shameek Chakravarty, how zero budget natural farming is taking off in India
Catching up with Shameek of Farmizen, who we interviewed 2 years ago. So much has happened but their mission is still the same: providing high quality, organic produce from zero budget natural farms to people living in the larger Indian cities.
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Apr 28, 2020
Transition Finance for Farmers with Benedikt - Robyn O'Brien, rePlant Capital
Robyn O'Brien of rePlant Capital is the third guest of the Transition Finance for Farmers Series
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Apr 21, 2020
10min with Catherine Tubb on precision fermentation and industrial animal farming disruption by 2030
This is the summary of the interview with Catherine Tubb of RethinkX, co-author of the “Rethinking Food & Agriculture” report.
Full interview www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2019/12/10/catherine-tubb/.
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Will precision fermentation really be 100 times more land efficient, produce 10-25 times more feedstock and be 10 times more water efficient? And what does it do with nutrient density and healthcare? Catherine's work focused primarily on disruption in the agriculture and food industries. She is the co-author, together…
Apr 14, 2020
77 Paul Gambill, paying farmers for storing carbon in their soils at Nori
Paul Gambill is the CEO of Nori, a company building a marketplace to pay farmers for the carbon they stored by switching to regenerative agriculture. This could incentivise thousands of farmers to change practises!
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In this interview we discuss how to pay farmers for the carbon they remove when going regenerative. We discuss the issues with carbon offsets and why carbon removal credits are the future. And also why regenerative ag is by far the most interesting place to start carbon removal and storage now, but it isn’t enough.
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Apr 7, 2020
10 min with Brian Von Herzen on why oceans are the next billion $ opportunity of regen ag
How marine permaculture can regenerate 70% of the Earth surface, the oceans, according to Brian Von Herzen, executive director of the Climate Foundation and original founder of the Marine Permaculture Movement.
FULL INTERVIEW: www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2020/01/09/brian-von-herzen/.
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With Brian Von Herzen we discussed why kelp, seaweed and ocean regeneration are ready for their breakthrough. Climate Foundation’s marine permaculture technology has the potential to provide sustainable food, feed, fiber, fertilizer, and biofuels on a global…
Mar 31, 2020
Transition Finance for Farmers with Benedikt - Sallie Calhoun and Esther Park, Cienega Capital
How would two of the most experienced impact investors in regen ag and food approach the financing of the regenerative transition of Benedikt's farm?
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In this series Koen is joined by Benedikt Bösel, owner of the Gut&Bösel farm (www.gutundboesel.org) and former Venture Capitalist with a focus on environmental technologies and AgTech startups. Follow them on their journey to find out what are the key principles of transition finance for regenerative farmers.
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Mar 24, 2020
10min with Geert van der Veer on how Herenboeren is scaling community owned farms in Europe
This is a summary of the second interview with Geert van der Veer, co-founder of Herenboeren, a movement to build a thousand community owned regenerative farms in Europe.
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This time we discussed with Geert van der Veer, co-founder of Herenboeren, their international plans and their land investment fund. Herenboeren helps local communities to buy a farm with 200 families and helps find the right farmer to farm the land in the most productive and regenerative way possible. Producing about 60% of the daily food for the families at prices lower than a supermarke…
Mar 17, 2020
76 Oliver Hanke, invested over 150M in sustainable agroforestry
A deep dive with Oliver Hanke of 12Tree into how they are making agroforestry investable for institutional investors.
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Listen to Oliver Hanke, Chief Project Officer of 12Tree! In this podcast we discuss how 12Tree raised 200M from a German pension fund and has been investing most of it in the past three years in large scale sustainable agroforestry projects. We touch upon the fascinating world of aromatic cacao, organic coconuts, holistic thinking and reforestation. I hope you enjoy this longer form interview until the end as we unpack how to put trillions t…
Mar 10, 2020
10 min with Isabella Tree on rewilding a 3,500 acre British farm that was never profitable before
A summary of the interview with Isabella Tree, author of the book Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm.
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I spoke with Isabella Tree about her book Wilding and the Knepp experiment, the pioneering rewilding project she runs in West Sussex with her husband, the environmentalist Charlie Burrell, using free-roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife.
Find all links and show notes:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2019/09/18/isabella-tree.
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Mar 3, 2020
75 Felipe Villela, regenerating 1M ha of land worldwide by 2030 through agroforestry
Listen to the podcast with Felipe Villela, co-founder of reNature, company working to regenerate nature through agroforestry together with corporates.
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ReNature works across the globe on crops like cacao, coffee, citrus fruits, white pepper, rubber, leather and cotton, together with companies like Veja and other large corporates. Join me for a discussion on advanced syntropic agroforestry and how to change the extractive commodity crops causing deforestation.
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Feb 25, 2020
74 Jill Clapperton, a 25 years learning journey on nutrient density, healthy soils, food and people
Co-founder of Rhizoterra Inc. and scientific advisor of chef Dan Barber, Jill Clapperton has been focussed on the connection between healthy soils, healthy food and healthy people for the last 25 years.
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Join me in this interview with Jill Clapperton talking about measuring the nutrient density of food.
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Feb 18, 2020
73 Stephanie Race, demystifying science to help farmers to make better decisions
An episode with Stephanie Race, founder and CEO of Crop Performance Ltd, which works with growers and food companies to improve productivity, conserve resources, and monitor the environmental impact of agriculture and food production on land and water use.
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Join me in this wide ranging interview with Stephanie who has been active in regenerative agriculture for over 10 years! With a team of 56, Crop Performance is trying to:
* Translate science into practice growers and supply chain
* Demystifying the science for the farmers
* Yield limiting factors,…
Feb 11, 2020
Transition Finance for Farmers with Benedikt - Jurrien Appers of Triodos Bank Investment Management
In this interview we will learn how one of the most sustainable banks in the world, Triodos, approaches financing transitions in energy and food.
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In this series Koen is joined by Benedikt Bösel, owner of the Gut&Bösel farm (www.gutundboesel.org) and former Venture Capitalist with a focus on environmental technologies and AgTech startups. Follow them on their journey to find out what are the key principles of transition finance for regenerative farmers.
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Feb 4, 2020
72 Mark Campanale Matt McLuckie, the hidden risks in the food and ag system any investor should know
An episode with Mark Campanale and Matt McLuckie of Planet Tracker, a non-profit financial think tank focused on planetary limits and financial markets e.g. fisheries, water and textiles.
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Planet Tracker’s focus is on global industry sectors defined by significant investment flows and revenues in the context of the planetary boundaries that are most threatened. This includes regional and global industry sectors such as agri-business, plastics and textiles.
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Jan 28, 2020
71 Yasmine Svan, why a 1.3 trillion asset manager is asking questions about soil health
Yasmine Svan is Sustainability Analyst at Legal & General Investment Management, one of the largest asset mangers in Europe.
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With over 1.3T assets under management, why is a large asset manager asking questions about soil health and how are they trying to influence the companies they invested in?
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Jan 21, 2020
70 Mark Frederiks, how to radically change the food system through local supply chains
Today an interview with Mark Frederiks, entrepreneur and Dutch Hub Manager SMARTCHAIN, on short food webs. How to reconnect the consumer with the farmer to radically change the food system.
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This interview is about short food supply chains. How do we get from a few cute and nice companies selling food directly from the farmer to the consumer to something which actually changes the food system radically and speeds up the regenerative transition?
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Jan 14, 2020
69 Thomas Rippel, checking in on land ownership, stable coins, pensions for farmers and city folks
This check in interview with Thomas Rippel. We discuss crowdfunding, stable coins, pensions for farmers, food pensions for city folks and land ownership.
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This time we have Thomas Rippel back on the show, he is looking to create new forms of land ownership and community capital. Last time I interviewed him was on March 30th 2018. So it is time to catch up!
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www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2020/01/15/thomas-rippel-2.
Thomas raised over € 1M with a German CSA to buy the land under their farm. Now Thomas is lo…
Jan 7, 2020
68 Brian Von Herzen, Why oceans are the next billion $ opportunity of regenerative agriculture
How marine permaculture can regenerate 70% of the Earth surface: the oceans. In this episode I interview Brian Von Herzen, executive director of the Climate Foundation and the original founder of the Marine Permaculture Movement.
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With Brian Von Herzen we discussed why kelp, seaweed and ocean regeneration are ready for their breakthrough.Climate Foundation’s marine permaculture technology has the potential to provide sustainable food, feed, fiber, fertilizer, and biofuels on a global scale, all while enabling carbon export from the atmosphere.
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Dec 30, 2019
67 Ethan Steinberg and Jeremy Kaufman, ready to invest over 15M into agroforestry systems in the US
We checked in with the co-founders of Propagate Ventures Jeremy and Ethan after our interview 1,5 years ago! A conversation about how they are scaling up agroforestry to every farm and what they have learned in the past years.
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Dec 27, 2019
What 2019 taught me about Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food
This is the 2019 review for the Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food podcast series, hosted by Koen van Seijen.It has been an amazing year, with many interviews, a new special series on transition finance, but also gave me some lessons and focus.Looking forward to a regenerative 2020! Enjoy it!
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www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2020/01/10/what-we-learn-in-2019-about-investing-in-regenerative-agriculture-and-food.
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Dec 23, 2019
Regenerative Agriculture Industry Map ft Ethan Soloviev plus review 2019
Finally a (almost) complete overview of the Regenerative Agriculture Industry! Learn more as I discuss the Map with Ethan Soloviev, international expert on regenerative agriculture, farmer, writer, and vice president of Research at HowGood, Inc. Plus a review of 2019 and what we are looking forward to in 2020!
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Dec 23, 2019
66 Lachy Ritchie, why fixing the agtalent problem is the key to the regen ag revolution
This time I spoke with Lachy Ritchie, co-founder of Agtalent, a digital marketplace for training, recruitment and expert services in the sustainable and regenerative agriculture sector.
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Agtalent is a digital talent marketplace for training, recruitment and expert services in the sustainable and regenerative agriculture sector. There are three focus areas for the platform: training, jobs and expert services.
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Dec 21, 2019
Transition Finance for Farmers with Benedikt (his story, his vision and the farm)
Koen van Seijen and Benedikt Bösel are the co-hosts of this special series dedicated to Transition Finance in regenerative agriculture and food.
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Koen van Seijen and Benedikt Bösel are the co-hosts of this special series dedicated to Transition Finance in regenerative agriculture and food.
In this series Koen is joined by Benedikt Bösel, owner of the Gut&Bösel farm (www.gutundboesel.org) and former Venture Capitalist with a focus on environmental technologies and AgTech startups. Follow them on their journey to find out what are the key principles of transition finance for regenerative farmers.
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Dec 20, 2019
Transition Finance for Farmers with Benedikt - Gut&Bösel farm
Koen van Seijen and Benedikt Bösel are the co-hosts of this special series dedicated to Transition Finance in regenerative agriculture and food.
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Koen van Seijen and Benedikt Bösel are the co-hosts of this special series dedicated to Transition Finance in regenerative agriculture and food.
In this series Koen is joined by Benedikt Bösel, owner of the Gut&Bösel farm (www.gutundboesel.org) and former Venture Capitalist with a focus on environmental technologies and AgTech startups. Follow them on their journey to find out what are the key principles of transition finance for regenerative farmers.
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Dec 19, 2019
Transition Finance for Farmers with Benedikt - Benedikt's beyond farming vision
Koen van Seijen and Benedikt Bösel are the co-hosts of this special series dedicated to Transition Finance in regenerative agriculture and food.
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Koen van Seijen and Benedikt Bösel are the co-hosts of this special series dedicated to Transition Finance in regenerative agriculture and food.
In this series Koen is joined by Benedikt Bösel, owner of the Gut&Bösel farm (www.gutundboesel.org) and former Venture Capitalist with a focus on environmental technologies and AgTech startups. Follow them on their journey to find out what are the key principles of transition finance for regenerative farmers.
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Dec 18, 2019
Transition Finance for Farmers with Benedikt - Benedikt's story
Koen van Seijen and Benedikt Bösel are the co-hosts of this special series dedicated to Transition Finance in regenerative agriculture and food.
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Koen van Seijen and Benedikt Bösel are the co-hosts of this special series dedicated to Transition Finance in regenerative agriculture and food.
In this series Koen is joined by Benedikt Bösel, owner of the Gut&Bösel farm (www.gutundboesel.org) and former Venture Capitalist with a focus on environmental technologies and AgTech startups. Follow them on their journey to find out what are the key principles of transition finance for regenerative farmers.
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Dec 17, 2019
Introducing Transition Finance for Farmers with Benedikt
Koen van Seijen and Benedikt Bösel are the co-hosts of this special series dedicated to Transition Finance in regenerative agriculture and food.
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Koen van Seijen and Benedikt Bösel are the co-hosts of this special series dedicated to Transition Finance in regenerative agriculture and food.
In this series Koen is joined by Benedikt Bösel, owner of the Gut&Bösel farm (www.gutundboesel.org) and former Venture Capitalist with a focus on environmental technologies and AgTech startups. Follow them on their journey to find out what are the key principles of transition finance for regenerative farmers.
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Dec 10, 2019
65 Catherine Tubb, why precision fermentation completely disrupts industrial animal farming by 2030
Will precision fermentation really be 100 times more land efficient, produce 10-25 times more feedstock and be 10 times more water efficient? And what does it do with nutrient density and healthcare? An interview with Catherine Tubb of RethinkX, co-author of the “Rethinking Food & Agriculture” report.
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Catherine's work focused primarily on disruption in the agriculture and food industries. She is the co-author, together with Tony Seba, of “Rethinking Food & Agriculture 2020-2030: The second domestication of plants and animals, the disruption of the cow…
Dec 3, 2019
10 min with Zach Weiss, climate change is a symptom of water cycle disturbance and we can fix it
"Water is the ultimate capital of a farmer" according to Zach Weiss of Elemental Ecosystems, working on water retention landscapes.
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This is summary of the longer interview with Zach Weiss of Elemental Ecosystems. Blending a unique combination of systems thinking, empathy and awareness, Zach created Elemental Ecosystems to provide an action-oriented process to improve clients' relationship with their landscape.
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www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2019/02/03/zach-weiss.
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Nov 26, 2019
64 Matteo Mazzola, the potential and opportunity of regenerative agriculture in Italy
In this podcast I talk with Matteo Mazzola, farmer and owner, together with his partner Paola Archetti, of Iside Farm in Sulzano, on the Iseo Lake.
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Matteo Mazzola is a coordinator of rural development projects, a consultant and trainer in the field of agroecology and a farmer.After working in various farms, thus acquiring experience from the dry plateaus of the Spanish chalk deserts, through the English moors, the Mediterranean sands of Western Australia, he ended up in the mild climates of the pre-Alpine lakes. He created TerraOrganica, an organization tha…
Nov 19, 2019
10 min with Armin Steuernagel on how to keep a mission driven company independent and raise capital
Who has the real power in your regenerative company? Money? Family? Or Purpose? Did you dare to ask the power question?
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A summary of the longer interview with Armin Steuernagel, entrepreneur in food, co-founder of the Purpose Network and impact investor. The Purpose Network helps companies to stay independent and mission driven for the long term. They believe that by innovating the way companies are owned, financed and governed, companies become more successful in the long run and can benefit all of society. Steward-owned companies make a legally binding co…
Nov 12, 2019
63 Joelle Faulkner, why a $250M Canadian farmland investor entered regen ag
In this podcast I talk with Joelle Faulkner, president and CEO of Area One Farms, an alternative asset management firm that she co-founded in 2012.
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Joelle Faulkner is founder of Area One Farms which builds equity partnerships across Canada that enable farm operators to expand without the burden of fees, rent or interest payments. Over the last 7 years they have invested over 250M in 18 properties across Canada and recently made their first regenerative sustainable deal.
Farmers get 100 percent of the income and appreciation from their portion of the joint…
Nov 5, 2019
10 min with Judith D Schwartz on what is possible with soil
A short summary of the interview with Judith D. Schwarz, a journalist whose recent work looks at soil as a hub for multiple environmental, economic and social challenges-and solutions.
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Judith wrote Cows save the Planet and Water in Plain Sight, both highly recommended when you want to learn more about what is possible with soil and agriculture.
Full interview with Judith, links and show notes:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2017/06/05/judith-d-schwartz.
We discussed how she ended up looking at Soil and why she is so enthusiastic about nature's…
Oct 29, 2019
62 Phil Graves, how Patagonia is investing its $75 million fund into regenerative agriculture
Why regenerative ORGANIC certification is key for the future of agriculture? In this podcast I talk with Phil Graves, head of Patagonia's venture fund Tin Shed Ventures.
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Recorded live at the Patagonia headquarters in Ventura, in this podcast I discuss with Phil Graves of Tin Shed Venture and Patagonia Provision how they are investing through Tin Shed Ventures, a $75 million fund into regenerative agriculture. Tin Shed Ventures is Patagonia’s corporate venture capital fund, which invests in start-ups that offer solutions to the environmental crisis.
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Oct 22, 2019
10min with Tony Lovell, how the $ 100M SLM fund handled the six driest years on record
The short summary of the check-in interview with Tony Lovell, co-founder and CEO of SLM Partners an asset manager that acquires and manages rural land on behalf of institutional investors, to scale up regenerative, ecological farming and forestry systems.
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I interviewed Tony before in October 2016 as the second interview ever on this podcast, and I'm very happy to check in with him again and see how things have developed in the last almost three years.
SLM's fund thesis is to double carrying capacity and half the cost of production, be a large scale, low…
Oct 15, 2019
61 Greg Shewmaker, there are hardly any nutrients in the food we eat
Join me in this interview with Greg Shewmaker, where we take a deep dive into nutrient density of food and how it is becoming possible to assess this on the spot (for example if your apple is full of nutrients or just a sugar bomb).
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TeakOrigin is a biochemistry data company located in Boston. As Greg Shewmaker, TeakOrigin co-founder, claims "We know less about the food we eat today than at any other time in history". The system TeakOrigin is building enables a user to accurately assess and understand what changes are taking place within a specific piece of…
Oct 8, 2019
Soil Wealth: growing opportunities to allocate capital to regenerative food systems
In this short podcast, recorded at the Regenerative Food Systems Investment(RFSI) forum that took place in Oakland on Sep 30 - Oct 1, I interviewed David LeZaks, Delta Institute, and Joshua Humphreys, Croatan Institute.
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With David and Joshua we speak about the new report "Soil Wealth: Investing in Regenerative Agriculture across Asset Classes"
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Oct 4, 2019
Regeneration Newsroom Podcast Oct 2019 ft Ethan Soloviev @ RFSI
In this special episode of the Regeneration Newsroom podcast Ethan Soloviev and I share our highlights of the Regenerative Food Systems Investment (RFSI) forum that took place in Oakland on Sep 30 - Oct 1. We thought nutrients had a big stage at the forum, while one of the elements missing was biodiversity. The role of farmers in the transition to a regenerative agriculture will be fundamental. Some big companies are ready to push the
transition further.
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Oct 1, 2019
60 Geert van der Veer, how Herenboeren is scaling community owned farms in Europe
This is a check in interview with Geert van der Veer, co-founder of Herenboeren, a movement to build a thousand community owned regenerative farms in Europe.
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This time we discussed with Geert van der Veer, co-founder of Herenboeren, their international plans and their land investment fund. Herenboeren helps local communities to buy a farm with 200 families and helps find the right farmer to farm the land in the most productive and regenerative way possible. Producing about 60% of the daily food for the families at prices lower than a supermarket.
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Sep 24, 2019
10 min with Aymeric Jung and Josep Segarra, from Lehman Brothers to rebuilding the food system
A short summary of the conversation with Aymeric Jung and Josep Segarra of Quadia Capital, using flexible loans to invest over 10M into regenerative food and agriculture companies in Europe.
Full interview, links and show notes on www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2018/03/24/aymeric-jung-josep-segarra.
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I had a conversation with Aymeric Jung and Josep Segarra of Quadia Capital who have been investing in regenerative agriculture and food companies for a few years and put more than 10M to work.
Two barriers for investing in regenerative agricul…
Sep 17, 2019
59 Isabella Tree, rewilding a 3,500 acre British farm that was never profitable before
An interview with Isabella Tree, author of the book Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm.
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I spoke with Isabella Tree about her book Wilding and the Knepp experiment, the pioneering rewilding project she runs in West Sussex with her husband, the environmentalist Charlie Burrell, using free-roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife.
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Sep 13, 2019
Paul Woebkenberg, Ecosia's 500K flex finance fund for regen ag
A short conversation Paul Woebkenberg leading the Ecosia's regen ag investments about their € 500K finance fund for regenerative agriculture.
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The Ecosia fund invests in pioneering farming projects anywhere in the world that demonstrate regeneration of soil and financial viability, recreating a healthy, sustainable ecosystem. The goal is to find practices that regenerate the soil and show the world what good alternatives to the currently dominating destructive, animal torturing, climate changing forms of food production look like. In 2018 Ecosia teamed up…
Sep 10, 2019
10 min with Sean Kidney, the $100 trillion bond market everyone in regen ag should know about
A short summary of the interview with Sean Kidney, CEO and co-founder of Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) is an international, investor-focused not-for-profit, the only organisation working solely on mobilising the $100 trillion bond market for climate change solutions.
Listen to the full interview here www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2019/07/10/sean-kidney.
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I had the great pleasure to interview Sean Kidney, chief executive and co-founder of the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI).
Main Take aways:- We can't afford a niche market here. We have to be…
Sep 3, 2019
58 Bert Glover, investing in agtech to build soil at scale
An interview about agtech for building soils and how that is absolutely crucial if we want to do regen ag at scale.
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I had the great pleasure to talk with Bert Glover, co-founder of Impact AG Partners, again. This time we go deep on technology and the role it plays in regenerative agriculture and food.
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www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2019/05/17/bert-glover.
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Aug 27, 2019
Sarah Day Levesque, gathering many pioneers at the Regenerative Food System Investment Forum
A short conversation with Sarah Day Levesque, Director of Events and Media of Acres USA and The Regenerative Food System Investment Forum that will be held in Oakland next Sept 30th - Oct 1st.
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In this short podcast I spoke with Sarah Day Levesque, organizer of the Regenerative Food System Investment Forum, on why she put together the conference and how she managed for the first time to get this group of regen ag stars together in one room. Many people I interviewed in this podcast will be there: David R Montgomery, Eric Jackson, Bert Glover, Paul McMahon, Renee C…
Aug 20, 2019
57 Tony Lovell, how the $ 100M SLM fund handled the six driest years on record
A check-in interview with Tony Lovell, co-founder and CEO of SLM Partners an asset manager that acquires and manages rural land on behalf of institutional investors, to scale up regenerative, ecological farming and forestry systems.
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I interviewed Tony before in October 2016 as the second interview ever on this podcast, and I'm very happy to check in with him again and see how things have developed in the last almost three years.
SLM's fund thesis is to double carrying capacity and half the cost of production, be a large scale, low cost producer of high q…
Aug 12, 2019
10 min with Paul Chatterton, WWF's Finance Lab working on landscapes of 1M hectares
A summary of the interview with Paul Chatterton, co-founder of the Landscape Finance Lab an experimental unit inside the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). They incubate sustainable landscapes, structure, launch and fund deals at landscape scale.
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Main take aways:
* The tools we have at the moment are not up to the get up to the challenge. We need to change the whole way that we're working
* The last year has been a really dramatic learning curve listening to bankers shadowing them understanding what they would invest in and wouldn't
* Now running programs…
Aug 5, 2019
56 Mary Jane Melendez, Leading the regen ag efforts of General Mills, a $15 billion food giant
An interview with Mary Jane Melendez, VP, Chief Sustainability & Social Impact Officer at General Mills.
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In the last episode I have the pleasure to speak with Mary Jane Melendez. She is leading the work of General Mills in regenerative agriculture.
We discussed:
* How General Mills got interested in regen ag
* How they are trying to help as many farmers (and hectares) as possible to make the transition
* The role of a big food company in this transition
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2019/08/06/mary-jane-melendez.
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Jul 26, 2019
55 John Kempf, Forget about soil, Focus on plant health instead
John Kempf is the founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture, a plant nutrition and biostimulants consulting company, and a top expert in the field of biological and regenerative farming.
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In this podcast I discuss with John Kempf about helping farmers and growers to become much more profitable by focussing on *plant health *and how that builds healthy soils.
His main advice in short is: *"Forget about soil health, but focus instead on plant health".*
All show notes and links can be found here:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2019/07/29/john-kempf
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Jul 23, 2019
5min short clip with John Kempf
A short clip of the interview with John Kempf, founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture, a plant nutrition and biostimulants consulting company, and a top expert in the field of biological and regenerative farming.
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In this podcast I discuss with John Kempf about helping farmers and growers to become much more profitable by focussing on *plant health* and how that builds healthy soils. His main advice in short is: *"Forget about soil health, but focus instead on plant health".
*You can find the full interview and the show notes here:
www.investinginregenerativeagri…
Jul 22, 2019
Angela Karp, £3.5 million climate change fund established to shake the agri-food sector
The SHAKE Climate Change programme of Rothamsted Research and partners will fund and train entrepreneurs and start-ups who have early stage science or tech-based solutions and aiming to have a significant impact on the emissions of the agri-food sector.
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In this short podcast, Professor Angela Karp, Director of Science Innovation, Engagement and Partnerships at Rothamsted Research and I discussed the SHAKE Climate Change programme aiming to make agriculture part of the solution.
Deadline for applications is August 12th.
More information and the show notes…
Jul 18, 2019
Andrew Voysey, Why the EU Taxonomy on Sustainable Finance matters to all regen investors?
A short interview with Andrew Voysey, Head of Business and Government Solutions at Soil Capital. We spoke about the EU Taxonomy on Sustainable Finance.
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On 18 June 2019, the TEG published a report on EU Taxonomy, which takes on board the feedback received on the first round of proposed activities and the input from the additional experts. The report is accompanied by a short user guide, which provides a quick overview of what the taxonomy is, what it is not, and how to use it in practice, and by a summary of the technical reportThe TEG opened a call for fe…
Jul 12, 2019
Brandon Welch, Perennial fund, investing and profit sharing to get farmers to organic and beyond
Transition finance is key to help many more farmers and growers start the transition to organic and regenerative. The Perennial Fund is going to experiment with a new concept!
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The Perennial Fund invests $75-150 per acre per year into the farm
* For 3 years to transition to organic
* In exchange for a 10-25% net profit share after they’re certified organic
* Until 1.5x the initial investment is returned
The per acre investment amount is determined by the overall capital needed to facilitate a successful organic transition. Farmers do not…
Jul 8, 2019
54 Sean Kidney, the $100 trillion bond market everyone in regenerative ag and food should know about
Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) is an international, investor-focused not-for-profit, the only organisation working solely on mobilising the $100 trillion bond market for climate change solutions. A new podcast with Sean Kidney, CEO and co-founder of the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI).
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I had the great pleasure to interview Sean Kidney, chief executive and co-founder of the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI).Climate Bonds Initiative
Main Take aways:
* We can't afford a niche market here. We have to be able to engage the mainstream portfolio managers around…
Jul 2, 2019
Nicolas Verschuere, Soil Capital, Regen Ag profitable from year 1 - Groundswell Shorts
After Nicolas Verschuere's panel at Groundswell on "How regenerating soil health can improve farm profitability from year one", we dive a bit deeper into the start of the regenerative transition.
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Nicolas argues there is another more gradual way than diving deep into the J curve. As any farmers don’t have the resources to finance the transition and take cuts in yields and profitability.
Links and show notes here:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2019/07/03/nicolas-verschuere-short.
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Jul 2, 2019
12 min with Dan Kittredge, making farmers focus on nutrient dense food
Food as medicine?! What if we could change agriculture measuring the nutrient density of food on the spot? With Bio Nutrient Meter consumers can test the quality of food in real time.
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In this episode I interview Dan Kittredge, organic farmer and founder of the Bio Nutrient Food, an association working hard to demonstrate the connections between plant health soil, carbon sequestration, crop nutritional value, flavour and human health.
Main take aways:
* Plants have evolved to grow and the more we can manage our soils in a fashion so that the plants are…
Jun 30, 2019
Allan Savory, What investors should do - Groundswell Shorts
What would you tell impact investors who are interested in regenerative agriculture to focus on? Last week at Groundswell I asked this question to Allan Savory, cofounder and president of the Savory Institute.
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Jun 24, 2019
53 Eric Jackson - How to finance many more grain and soy farmers to transition to organic and beyond
Pipeline foods is working with the Rabobank and other funders to design and implement transition finance products to help farmers transitioning to organic and beyond. A new podcast with Eric Jackson, CEO and founder of Pipeline Foods.
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I had again the great pleasure to interview Eric Jackson, the CEO and founder of Pipeline Foods.
Main take aways:
* Pipeline Foods kept investing in infrastructure for organic row broad acre cropping- Organic soy beans for export for the Far East, turned out to be a big growth market for Pipeline Foods
* Cleaner, proce…
Jun 18, 2019
10min with Bert Glover on investing $160M to regenerate Australian soils
Working hard to bring more revenue back to the farm gate for farmers who are delivering ecosystem services. A 10 min summary of the interview with Bert Glover, co-founder of Impact AG Partners.
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Main take aways:
* We're seeing our consumers and our society saying we want ethically produced food and fibre and we have an expectation of you the farmers that you're going to do the right thing.
* We see more and more opportunity to bring more revenue back to the farm gate for farmers who are delivering ecosystem services.
* We really believe that we only b…
Jun 10, 2019
52 Paul Chatterton, WWF's Finance Lab working on landscapes of 1M hectares and $100M investments
An interview with Paul Chatterton, co-founder of the Landscape Finance Lab an experimental unit inside the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). They incubate sustainable landscapes, structure, launch and fund deals at landscape scale.
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Main take aways:
* The tools we have at the moment are not up to the get up to the challenge. We need to change the whole way that we're working
* The last year has been a really dramatic learning curve listening to bankers shadowing them understanding what they would invest in and wouldn't
* Now running programs to save nature…
Jun 3, 2019
12 min with Chuck de Liedekerke, we need more regenerative and financially literate farm managers
If you want to drive meaningful environmental change you are going to need to make regenerative agriculture more profitable. A summary of the interview with Chuck, co-founder of SoilCapital.
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The suit in London and the farmer in Argentina need to start speaking each others language. The first one needs to learn the challenges of farming, the farmer needs to understand the level of reporting and milestones the fund manager needs to raise capital.
If Chuck could change one thing: he would come up with a KPI to measure soil carbon and the correlation to fi…
May 31, 2019
Regeneration Newsroom Podcast May 2019 ft Ethan Soloviev
Welcome to the Regeneration Newsroom Podcast May 2019 A joint venture between Ethan Soloviev’s Regeneration Newsroom.
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This month we discuss:
* Climate positive beef? First LCA done
* Process vs. Outcome based standards
* General Mills
* Jobs in Regenerative Agriculture
Enjoy, Ethan and Koen
Key points of this month:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2019/05/30/regeneration-newsroom-podcast-ft-ethan-soloviev-may-2019.
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May 27, 2019
51 Dan Kittredge, food as medicine, making farmers focus on nutrient dense food
What if we could change agriculture measuring the nutrient density of food on the spot?
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In this episode I interview Dan Kittredge, organic farmer and founder of the Bio Nutrient Food, an association working hard to demonstrate the connections between plant health soil, carbon sequestration, crop nutritional value, flavour and human health.
Main take aways:
* Plants have evolved to grow and the more we can manage our soils in a fashion so that the plants are able to do what they do well, the better it is for everybody involved.
* There is a massive…
May 22, 2019
12 min with Eric Jackson, doing over 150M in sales of organic grain and soy
After a career in conventional chemical agriculture and software Eric Jackson could retire, but decided to build the missing piece in organic broad acre row crops (grain and soy). A 12 min summary of the interview with Eric, who is building an organic powerhouse.
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This time I had the great pleasure to interview Eric Jackson, the CEO and founder of Pipeline Foods www.pipelinefoods.com.He was triggered by a fascinating statistic: the US is a grain, corn and soy powerhouse but imports 75% of its organic demand.Why? There isn’t enough organic farmland in the U…
May 14, 2019
50 Bert Glover, investing $160M to regenerate Australian soils
Working hard to bring more revenue back to the farm gate for farmers who are delivering ecosystem services!
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This time I had the great pleasure to interview Bert Glover, co-founder of Impact AG Partners.
* We're seeing our consumers and our society saying we want ethically produced food and fibre and we have an expectation of you the farmers that you're going to do the right thing.
* We see more and more opportunity to bring more revenue back to the farm gate for farmers who are delivering ecosystem services.
* We really believe that we only borrow…
May 9, 2019
10min with Harrie, Arnout and Koen where we plant billions of trees vs climate change?
10 min Summary of the interview with Harrie, Arnout and Koen of Land Life Company
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I interviewed Harrie Lovenstein, Arnout Asjes and Koen Kramer of Land Life Company. An ecosystem restoration company working to reforest hundreds of thousands of hectares. We discussed the technologies they are developing to drawdown as much co2 as possible! And their changing business model, from selling a tree planting tech to offering end to end reforestation services.
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* Koen: trees are really fascinating organisms standing on a single pla…
May 2, 2019
10 min with Paul McMahon on why ecological agriculture makes more business sense than chemical ag
10 min Summary of the interview with Co-founder of SLM Partners, on why ecological farming makes much more business sense than chemical based farming.
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Paul McMahon, co-founder and managing partner of SLM Partners. An asset manager that acquires and manages rural land on behalf of institutional investors, to scale up regenerative, ecological farming and forestry systems that deliver financial returns and environmental benefits.
We covered a wide range of things in this interview, mainly looking at the trends that are changing the food and agriculture sector…
Apr 30, 2019
49 Harrie, Arnout and Koen, where will we plant billions of trees against climate change?
A deep dive into the tech and business models to plant billions of trees on degraded land.
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I interviewed Harrie Lovenstein, Arnout Asjes and Koen Kramer of Land Life Company. An ecosystem restoration company working to reforest hundreds of thousands of hectares. We discussed the technologies they are developing to drawdown as much co2 as possible! And their changing business model, from selling a tree planting tech to offering end to end reforestation services.
Key points of the interview:
* Koen: trees are really fascinating organisms standing on a s…
Apr 16, 2019
48 Russell Wallack, which trees to plant where? Answering the oldest question in agriculture
Using software to answer the key question when doing agroforestry on a watershed level, which tree to plant where and why? In this interview with *Russell Wallack of Terra Genesis and co founder of Brasa*, we cover a lot of ground but try to give (part of the) answer to the key question in agriculture, what to plant where and why? Especially in agroforestry systems this is key, as trees can’t walk to a more optimal spot.
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Apr 2, 2019
47 Ruud Zanders, the revolutionary poultry farmer about the role of animals in feeding the world
What is the role of animals in the food system of the future?
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This time I interviewed Ruud Zanders of Kipster, diving deep into the question: What is the role of animals in the food system of the future (if any)?
Takeaways:
* Pigs and chickens can do something amazing turning food waste (which humans can’t or don’t want to eat) into protein and manure
* If the livestock industry would only use residual waste for chickens and pigs and marginal lands for cows, goats and sheep there would be 20grams of animal protein per person per day availabl…
Mar 26, 2019
46 Abby Rose, please don’t invest in another random technology which is going to save us all
Regenerative farmer and physicist, turned AgTech founder
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This time I had a the pleasure to interview Abby Rose, AgTech founder, farmer, and co-host of Farmerama!
Key takeaways of the interview:
* we need to build a fire friendly landscape
* fires have always been there but not the intensity and degree burning over 1m acres- Abby is mostly surrounded by mono culture pine forests which burn like nothing else- moisture in the soil to have all year round plants which don’t burn so easily
* if you have a very diverse microbial life in the soil, i…
Mar 25, 2019
Regeneration Newsroom Podcast March 2019 ft Ethan Soloviev
Welcome to the Regeneration Newsroom Podcast November 2018A joint venture between Ethan Soloviev’s Regeneration Newsroom and the Investing in Regenerative Agriculture podcast. Where Ethan Soloviev and Koen van Seijen highlight the top articles, books, videos, podcasts and other news on Regenerative Agriculture and Business!"
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This month we discuss:
* Two outcome based standards!
* Companies leading the change
* Regeneration light or Regeneration journey…
Jan 29, 2019
45 Zach Weiss, climate change is a symptom of water cycle disturbance and we can fix it
Water is the ultimate capital of a farmer
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Today I’m joined by Zach Weiss of Elemental Ecosystems working on water retention landscapes.
Thank you Judith D. Schwartz for the introduction to Zach!
Take aways from the interview:
* Climate change is a symptom of the severe water cycle disturbance and there is something we can do about it!
* When the landscape isn’t being recharged with water, it leads to flooding and drought (worst case also fire)
* Humans desertified 1/3 of the earth’s cover the last 10.000 years
* We are carbon based li…
Dec 21, 2018
Regeneration Newsroom podcast December 2018 ft. Ethan Soloviev
Welcome to the Regeneration Newsroom Podcast December 2018 A joint venture between Ethan Soloviev’s Regeneration Newsroom and the Investing in Regenerative Agriculture podcast
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This month we discuss:
- Agroforestry in Central Asia
- 100 Key landscapes
- Gucci going Regenerative?!?
- Regenerative-Lite / Regenerative Hype
Enjoy, Ethan and Koen
Find the links here:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2018/12/22/regeneration-newsroom-podcast-ft-ethan-soloviev-december-2018.
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Dec 18, 2018
44 Geoff Burke, scaling organic regenerative dairy and organic kiwis in NZ
Discussion about how to increase the impact investing in regenerative agriculture in New Zealand.If you want to drive meaningful environmental change you are going to need to make it more profitable
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Today I interviewed Geoff Burke, co-founder of Agro-Ecological, a New Zealand based impact investment manager and advisory firm focused on farmland.
We also recorded our conversation as a video with some background slides. Please have a look and let us know what you think! https://youtu.be/0BR3v-_2aO8.
Things we discussed:
* One of the things holding the…
Nov 26, 2018
43 Chuck de Liedekerke, we need many more great regenerative and financially literate farm managers
If you want to drive meaningful environmental change you are going to need to make regenerative agriculture more profitable.
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The suit in London and the farmer in Argentina need to start speaking each others language. The first one needs to learn the challenges of farming, the farmer needs to understand the level of reporting and milestones the fund manager needs to raise capital.
If Chuck could change one thing: he would come up with a KPI to measure soil carbon and the correlation to financial returns. Chuck’s advice for investors:
* Meet with…
Nov 15, 2018
Regeneration Newsroom Podcast November 2018 ft. Ethan Soloviev
Welcome to the Regeneration Newsroom Podcast November 2018A joint venture between Ethan Soloviev’s Regeneration Newsroom and the Investing in Regenerative Agriculture podcast. Where Ethan Soloviev and Koen van Seijen highlight the top articles, books, videos, podcasts and other news on Regenerative Agriculture and Business!"
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This month we discuss:
* Australia Rising
* Farmer innovation & policy proposals
* New videos from Kiss the Ground & Patagonia
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Nov 13, 2018
42 Armin Steuernagel, how to keep your mission driven company independent and raise capital
Who has the real power in your regenerative company? Money? Family? Or Purpose? Did you dare to ask the power question?
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This time interviewed Armin Steuernagel, entrepreneur in food, co-founder of the Purpose Network and impact investor. The Purpose Network helps companies to stay independent and mission driven for the long term. They believe that by innovating the way companies are owned, financed and governed, companies become more successful in the long run and can benefit all of society. Steward-owned companies make a legally binding commitment to the…
Nov 8, 2018
41 Victor Friedberg, 30m available for food moonshots! First focus: Soil 3.0
How a peach turned the life of Victor Friedberg around and made him turn into a taste and soil investor.
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This time I interviewed Victor Friedberg co-founder of FoodShot Global (www.foodshot.org) a platform catalysing food system innovation. FoodShot is an ecosystem of world-class, mission aligned venture funds, banks, corporate strategic investors, and foundations that provide equity, debt, non-dilutive capital, and industry resources. Their first focus is on Soil 3.0.
We discussed the following:
* Flavour is a system, all the focus on genetics etc.…
Oct 1, 2018
40 Kevin Egolf, how (retail) investors can provide land access to regen farmers
Raised 50M dollars and helped regen farmers access over 10.000 acres of farmland.
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This time I’m joined by Kevin Egolf, Chief Financial Officer of Iroquois Valley Farms, a restorative farmland finance company providing land access to organic family farmers, with a focus on the next generation.
In this interview we talk about democratization of impact investing in regenerative agriculture. Why land security over a long period of time is key to soil health and sustainability (in all aspects) of farms.
We discussed many things, among them why Iroquois…
Aug 25, 2018
39 Satya Tripathi, raising $2.3B to transition 6m smallholder farmers beyond organic
How do you turn a whole Indian region to zero budget natural farming using Climate Bonds?
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This time I interviewed Satya Tropathi, Assistant Secretary-General and Head of the New York Office of the UN Environment Programme and chair of the board of the Sustainable India Finance Facility, a partnership between the United Nations Environment Programme, World Agroforestry Centre and BNP Paribas.
We discussed the bold and very ambitious project he is working on to raise institutional impact capital to transition a whole Indian region to zero budget natural farm…
Aug 5, 2018
38 Dirk Aleven, can investing in soil less, greenhouses in Ukraine be regenerative?
Can you farm regenerative in soil less high tech green houses? Let's find out.
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This time I interviewed Dirk Aleven, founder of FoodVentures, a company leveraging the knowledge of the high tech green house industry in the Netherlands and bringing it do countries where the middle class is demanding fresh, sustainable vegetables in their local supermarkets. Georgia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Malaysia etc.
We obviously discussed the tensions between soil less and growing in soil, the energy use and CO2 use of green houses etc.
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Aug 4, 2018
37 Ian McSweeney, 400M US acres will change hands soon, how to make them regenerative?!
Facilitating the transition of the best regenerative soil to the next regeneration of regen farmers.
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This time I interviewed Ian McSweeney director of the Agrarian Trust. The Agrarian Trust’s mission is to support land access for the next generation of farmers. Supporting all stakeholders, from farmers and community members to activists and investors in this absolutely key process. The Agrarian Trust decided to work with the oldest organic and regenerative farms (with the best soils and ecosystems) of the country and focusses on getting the next generatio…
Aug 3, 2018
36 Martijn Blom, investing 15m into regen food/agri companies in Sub Saharan Africa
Entrepreneur turned impact investor with a new found passion for SOIL!
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This time I’m talking to Martijn Blom, senior manager investor relationships at Hivos Impact Investments. the impact investment arm of a large dutch NGO. Their Hivos Food & Lifestyle Fund is focussed at making investments into food companies in southern Africa. We discussed his impact investing journey, the fight agains the maize monocultures in Malawi and Zimbabwe, fancy sustainable Rooibos tea companies and his new found passion for soil!
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Jul 18, 2018
35 Eric Jackson, doing over 150M in sales of organic grain and soy, started 18mon ago
Covering over 1.5m acres in less than 18months, Eric is building an organic powerhouse.
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This time I had the great pleasure to interview Eric Jackson, the CEO and founder of Pipeline Foods. After a career in conventional chemical agriculture and software could retire but decided to build the missing piece in organic broad acre row crops (grain and soy).
He was triggered by a fascinating statistic: the US is a grain, corn and soy powerhouse but imports 75% of its organic demand. Why? There isn’t enough organic farmland in the US, so Eric started on a journ…
May 21, 2018
34 Peter Donovan, the wonders of soil and asking better questions when investing in it
A lesson on soil and all its wonders
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This time I interviewed Peter Donovan, who has been active in the space since he met Allan Savory in 1990!
Take-aways from the interview:
* Measurements of carbon is difficult
* Peter: Soil carbon the living the dead and the very dead
* The best kind of measurement is one that is repeated and is looking at agency
* Peter is looking more and more at results not management, as everyone is doing them differently
* Good questions vs bad questions
* Organic growth and succession of management
* Future of a…
Apr 22, 2018
33 Thomas Rippel, using a blockchain to help Farmland Stewardship Organisations grow
Thomas raised over € 1M with a German CSA to buy the land under their farm. Now Thomas is looking at blockchains to help more Farmland Stewardship Organisations do the same.
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Listen to the update interview with Thomas here:
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Observations from the podcast:
* A lot of speculative cash has moved into agri land
* We have seen a real decoupling of productive value and the farmland price
* Buying land is out of the question for most farmers
* Farmland is mostly bought by financial in…
Mar 17, 2018
32 Aymeric Jung and Josep Segarra, from Lehman Brothers to rebuilding the food system
Using flexible loans to invest over 10M into regenerative food and agriculture companies in Europe.
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I had a conversation with Aymeric Jung and Josep Segarra of Quadia Capital who have been investing in regenerative agriculture and food companies for a few years and put more than 10M to work.
Two barriers for investing in regenerative agriculture according to Aymeric and Josep:
* You have to understand that food isn’t a basic product, it is about life, it isn’t a smartphone. You need to regenerate it. It takes time! Price and costs aren’t every…
Mar 15, 2018
31 Jeremy Harry Ethan, planting millions of productive trees with farmers on their farms
Propagate Ventures, scaling up agroforestry to every farm
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I had a long and very interesting conversation with Ethan, Jeremy and Harry, the co-founders of Propagate ventures. Our conversation ranged from chestnuts to crowdfunding and how to get more impact investors into the agroforestry space. As you will hear, we suffered from a bad internet connection which resulted in a lower sound quality. Sorry for that!
The reason to start Propagate:
For most farmers putting their money in tree-crops for a long term investment was too risky
Why is Propagate working w…
Mar 12, 2018
30 Esther Park, CEO of Cienega capital on impact investing in regen ag and food
The CEO of Cienega Capital, Esther Park on investing in Regenerative Agriculture.
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This time I had the great pleasure to interview Esther Park, the CEO of Cienega, the investment company of Sallie Calhoun who I interviewed last year (where we discussed among other things, the new vineyard they are building, where most of the management is done by sheep)
Advice for impact investors wanting to get started in the space:
Start with some education, Great place to start: the Soil Health Primer
Do something, just do 1 thing, make 1 grant, or loan or investmen…
Jan 30, 2018
29 Rufo Quintavalle, the impact investor poet of regenerative agriculture
How to take the plunge when wanting to invest in regenerative agriculture.
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This time I interviewed Rufo Quintavalle, impact investor and poet. He shared his journey into investing in regenerative agriculture and gave a lot of tips on how to start investing in regenerative agriculture and take the plunge!
Instead of Silicon Valleys *“Move fast and break things, we need move slowly and build things”*
Tips of Rufo:
* Don’t be too hasty but don’t be too slow either, set aside a bit of money you can afford to potentially lose and put it to work.…
Jan 29, 2018
28 Volkert Engelsman, organic isn't too expensive, chemical is too cheap
The biggest threat to sustainability is anonymity.
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At the office of Eosta I interviewed Volkert Engelsman. CEO of Eosta, international distributor of fresh organic and fair fruits and vegetables.
Volkert's views:
* "The biggest threat to sustainability is anonymity"
* "If I don’t know you I can exploit you"
* "Trade in our case is not about buying low and selling high, it is responsibly running a supply chain"
* "Marketing sustainability automatically leads to monetising sustainability"
He prefers to talk only about profit but we have to fa…
Jan 10, 2018
26 Les Szabo, why Dr Bronner's a soap company, leads the regenerative agriculture revolution?
The head of constructive capital at Dr Bronner's explains why they are investing in regenerative agriculture
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Today I’m joined by Les Szabo, director of constructive capital at Dr Bronner’s. The top-selling brand of natural soap in North America. We discussed what a soap company is doing investing in the regenerative agriculture space. How they found themselves bringing together unlikely allies like vegans and regenerative ranchers. To target a common enemy: factory farming.
Les shared how they got started (and how you can do the same), their work aroun…
Jan 10, 2018
25 Shameek Chakravarty, left Amazon to start a real life FarmVille in rural India
How the regenerative agriculture revolution starts by connecting small holder farmers in rural India with customers in the city.
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Today I’m talking to Shameek Chakravarty cofounder of Farmizen based in Bangalore India, on Farmizen everyone can rent mini-plots of farmland close to the city. You choose your vegetables and farmers then grow them organically for you and you can keep track of the harvest using the app. Basically it is a real life, organic, version of Farmville.
We discussed the lives of Indian farmers and what challenges they face every da…
Jan 10, 2018
24 David R Montgomery, ditching the plow, covering the soil and diversifying crop rotations
Writer of Dirt and Growing a Revolution.
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I interviewed David R Montgomery, writer of the book Growing a Revolution where he travelled around the world visiting farmers who are growing high quality produce, profitably while growing soil carbon. All of them shared the same approach to working with the soil: ditching the plow, covering the soil and diversifying crop rotations. Meeting these farmers turned him from a pessimist into a *cautious optimist.*
Plus we touched upon a very interesting topic which I hope to discuss further in future interviews (and w…
Dec 1, 2017
23 Osvaldo de Falco, connecting Italian organic fruit farmers directly to consumers
How do we pay a fair price to our farmers? If not they can't take care of our land.
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I interviewed Osvaldo de Falco, co-founder of Biorfarm.
A platform which connects Italian organic fruit farmers directly to the end customers, while paying the farmers a fair price (usually 2 or 3 times as much compared to the traditional distribution channels).
This is key in Regenerative Agriculture because if we don't pay our farmers a fair price they can't take care of and improve the land. Osvaldo experienced this problem first hand as his farther got 0,20/0,25 cen…
Nov 24, 2017
22 Ethan Soloviev: As demand for regenerative agriculture skyrockets, is there enough supply?
Expert on Regenerative Agriculture. Diving deep on demand!
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I was joined by Ethan Soloviev, Ethan is an international expert on regenerative agriculture, a farmer, writer, and the Vice President of Research at HowGood, Inc.Some thoughts from the show:
* Can the supply of regenerative agriculture products meet the rapidly growing demand
* Why leverage points don't work... and what can.
* How to create chimeras for regenerative agriculture investing.
* We discover why Ethan loves personal care and cosmetics so much (Hint: it has nothing to do with h…
Oct 22, 2017
21 Renee Cheung, how to get institutional investors investing in regenerative agriculture
Founder of Bonterra Partners, a specialist working with investors to invest in regenerative agriculture.
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This time I interviewed Renee Cheung, founder of Bonterra Partners, a natural capital investment specialist. Renee works with investors to identify and invest in sustainable, profit-generating environmental and real asset strategies.
We discussed what have been the developments in regenerative agriculture in the last years:
* holistic grazing
* cover-crops
* no-till systems
Progressive smaller HNIs are taking interest in regenerative agri…
Oct 3, 2017
20 Geert van der Veer, helping to start 1000 locally owned regenerative farms in Europe
Co-founder of Herenboeren, a community owned regenerative farm in the Netherlands.
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This time I interviewed Geert van der Veer, co-founder of Herenboeren.
Who bought a farm with 150 families (now growing to 200 families) and hired a farmer to farm the land in the most productive and regenerative way possible. Producing about 60% of the daily food for the families at prices lower than a supermarket. Now Geert is working to help other local communities to do the same, and in doing so helping start 1000 locally owned regenerative farms all over Europe.…
Sep 24, 2017
19 Craig Wichner, showing with a 150M fund that regen ag is more profitable than chemical ag
Raised one of the first regenerative agriculture impact investing funds, now managing over 17000 acres and executing complex ten year rotations. Including cattle, organic grains and organic vegetables.
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I interviewed Craig Wichner co-founder of FarmlandLP one of the first impact investment funds focussed on Regenerative Agriculture.
We discussed many things! From soil carbon to drones and from deep roots to how we can show that regenerative agriculture is more profitable than conventional chemical based agriculture.
*Some key takeaways:*
* “How do you…
Sep 9, 2017
18 Liz Carlisle, how lentils changed a region and started an organic company 30 years ago
A group of farmers started one of the first organic companies in the US, 30 years ago on Montana.
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This time I had the great pleasure to interview Liz Carlisle, writer of the Lentil Underground, the amazing story about how five farmers created one of the first organic companies in the US.
We discussed how and why she went from country singer to writer! While singing for farmers she kept hearing the issues of farmers. Many farmers in the US work just as hard as before but can’t earn enough anymore to put food on the table. Which is ironic because they…
Sep 1, 2017
17 Michele Manelli, regenerating Italy's wine industry
What is sustainability in wine and where do you start?
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Recently I interviewed Michele Manelli, of Salcheto wine Montepulciano Italy.
We discussed what it means to be a sustainable wine pioneer in Italy and where to start if you start from scratch. Also Michele shared how he influencing other wine companies in Italy and not 'just' his 50 hectares in Tuscany. The wine industry has to reinvent itself and sustainability should be at its core.
Michele:
* 'More and more people are ready to put their sustainable values beside their other values (quality…
Aug 10, 2017
16 Rhamis Kent, are you an investor or a gambler?
The role of investors in this agricultural and societal revolution.
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Recently I interviewed Rhamis Kent and we discuss the role of investors in scaling up the regenerative agriculture business. *But also what is an investor? What makes him or her different from a gambler or speculator??*
Rhamis: We need more people to think, 'I’m safe as you are safe, I’m in danger if you are in danger'
On scaling up the regenerative agriculture sector:
'Success breeds success, we need bigger and better projects to show to people that this works'
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Jul 18, 2017
15 Jesse Solomon, rebuilding the chicken industry from the ground/soil up
Selling heritage chickens from farmers using holistic management.
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This time I had the pleasure to interview Jesse Solomon, CEO and founder of who are reinventing the chicken industry from the ground up (literally). By focusing on raising slow-growing chickens entirely on pasture, with practices that create healthy soil and regenerate the land.
We luckily had time to discuss many things in the interview! How Jesse went from eating meat, to being a vegetarian (after reading the book Eating animals by Jonathan Safran Foer. To hunting his own meat and cook…
Jun 22, 2017
14 Renske Lynde, how to invest in the food system of the future?
Experienced impact investor about her first impact investments and important blended capital is in the food system of the future.
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I had the great pleasure of interviewing Renske Linde, impact investor and co founder of Food System 6 (FS6) a nonprofit organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area that is working to transform our current industrial food system into a new model that is focused on environmental, physical and social health. They run a very interesting cohort for disruptive food entrepreneurs www.foodsystem6.org.
We discussed how Renske en…
Jun 4, 2017
13 Gregory Landua, the role of blockchain in regenerative agriculture, and much more
Co-Founder of Terra Genesis and how to bring diversity to the market and much more.
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This time I interview Gregory Landua founder and CEO of www.terra-genesis.com an international regenerative design consultancy. His goal is to “transfer as much of the agriculture landscape as possible, to draw down carbon and uplift the local communities” To do that we need to look systemically and target the businesses who are making the big purchases and adding value to the ingredients.
Then we dived into the difficulties of “The logistics of bringing diversity to…
May 29, 2017
12 Judith D Schwartz, what is possible with soil?
Writer of Cows save the Planet and Water in Plain sight, examples from around the world on what is possible with soil.
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In this podcast I interviewed Judith D. Schwarz, a journalist whose recent work looks at soil as a hub for multiple environmental, economic and social challenges-and solutions. She wrote *Cows Save the Planet *and recently *Water in Plain Sight*. Both highly recommended when you want to learn more about what is possible with soil and agriculture.
We discussed how she ended up looking at Soil and why she is so enthusiastic about nature's…
May 15, 2017
11 Sara Scherr, how to find great landscapes to invest in regenerative agriculture?
Taking the landscape approach when investing in regenerative agriculture.
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This time I interviewed Dr. Sara Scherr, co founder and CEO of EcoAgriculture partners and we discussed things like the stranded assets in traditional (chemical) agriculture (11T dollar).
* why more agriculture companies are getting involved in landscape restoration: 'They see risks they can’t manage only inside their farm/ company' so they look at landscapes and whole ecosystems.
* why every portfolio has exposure to chemical agriculture and that turns out to be risky. You…
Apr 18, 2017
10 Thomas Vaassen, land tenures hold the key to regenerative agriculture?
How do we bring land tenures to the hundreds of millions small holder farmers around the world?
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I interviewed Thomas Vaassen co-founder of Landmapp/Meridia. Thomas and his co founder ended up working on land tenures because it seemed the key factor in how to unlock value for economic development for small holder farmers. Thomas shared his experience of building this startup on the ground in Ghana. How they pivoted and changed many of their first assumptions as soon as they started working with real customers:)
They took an ancient system of land rights/ten…
Apr 18, 2017
07b Mike Korchinsky, being frank about investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Forestry
Founder of Wildlife works on investing in community based forestry and agriculture projects in Kenya and Congo.
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A few months ago I interviewed Mike Korchinsky, founder and CEO of WildlifeWorks, active in Kenya and Congo working with local communities to protect their forests.
We had the time (55 min) to discuss many things, from how Mike got into the space, what co2 credits mean for his company etc.
Only during the last 15 minutes we discussed the role of Impact Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Forestry. Listening to it again I felt that these 15…
Apr 2, 2017
09 Sallie Calhoun, do and don'ts from the most experienced regen ag investor
Lessons from 15years of impact investing in food and agriculture. *Sallie and her team are working on a platform **#NoRegrets Initiative** to educate investors and funders about the latest science on Soil Health and consider Soil Health with every investment and grant they make. *
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This time I had a conversation with Sallie Calhoun, impact investor in regenerative agriculture for over 15 years!
Show notes and links:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2017/02/28/sallie-calhoun.
Picture credit, taking by Elaine Patarini, Paicines Ranch Sallie Calho…
Mar 19, 2017
08 Thekla Teunis and Gijs Boers, what African regenerative farmers can teach us
Working with farmers in Zambia and South Africa by really really listening to them.
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For the first time I interviewed two people at the same time! Thekla Teunis and Gijs Boers, cofounders of Grounded
They are working to bring the agriculture sector in Africa back into balance. We luckily had time to cover many things in this podcast and to discuss how regenerative agriculture really works in practise on the ground in Southern Africa.
The key take-aways:
* Listening to farmers, (really really listen) they know what could work well on their land,…
Feb 25, 2017
07a Mike Korchinsky, protecting forests in Congo and Kenya with local communities
Ecosystem restoration together with local communities in Kenya and Congo
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This time I had the pleasure to interview Mike Korchinsky, founder and CEO of WildlifeWorks, active in Kenya and Congo working with local communities to protect their forests. It all started with elephants and initially producing t-shirts locally to support community development. Now they are mostly active in the market of co2 credits and large scale ecosystem restoration. Still with a very strong focus on Community Development.
I asked about Mike's ideas and tips for the impact inves…
Feb 25, 2017
06 Michiel Lenstra, impact investing and small holder farmers
Investing in small holder farmers and regenerative agriculture.
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A conversation with Michiel Lenstra, Impact Investor and Lead Wire Investments at Wire Group with a passion for small holder farmers and regenerative agriculture. We covered a wide range of things in this interview, looking at the role of small holder farmers in the regenerative agriculture space and what impact investing can do there.
We also discussed the importance of land rights and a company we both invested in LandMapp/Meridia
Enjoy!
Notes and links:
www.investinginregenerativeagricult…
Feb 5, 2017
05 Michiel de Man, pushing back the desert in Spain with regenerative agriculture
Working with farmers in Spain to bring back hope and inspiration through regenerative agriculture in farming communities.
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I had the pleasure of interviewing Michiel de Man, strategy director of Commonland. We discussed how to unlock inspiration in one of the driest places is Spain, how farmers came together to take ownership of their future. How a regenerative almond business was started (plus many other business cases).
What Commonland is doing with major companies and why Michiel is so passionate about regenerative agriculture. Enjoy!
Show notes and lin…
Dec 20, 2016
04 Joe Baird, the view of an experienced impact investor on regenerative agriculture
Farmers financial health. Impact investing in regenerative agriculture methodes in Italy and Northern California.
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An interview with Joe Baird, impact investor who I met in Veglio Northern Italy, where he is introducing regenerative agriculture methodes to restore the countryside, both ecologically and socially. He splits his time between California and Northern Italy where he tries to connect rural and urban areas. We covered among other things, like farmer health in this episode. Looking at ways to make sure farmers and their family make enough income to s…
Dec 20, 2016
03 Paul McMahon, ecological agriculture makes more business sense than chemical agriculture
Co-founder of SLM Partners, on why ecological farming makes much more business sense than chemical based farming.
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Paul McMahon, co-founder and managing partner of SLM Partners. An asset manager that acquires and manages rural land on behalf of institutional investors, to scale up regenerative, ecological farming and forestry systems that deliver financial returns and environmental benefits.
We covered a wide range of things in this interview, mainly looking at the trends that are changing the food and agriculture sector and what it means for conventional a…
Dec 20, 2016
02 Tony Lovell, regenerate soils with a 100M fund and many cows
Using cows and holistic management to regenerate soils, with a 100M impact investing fund.
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I had a conversation with Tony Lovell, Co founder and CEO of SLM Partners an asset manager that acquires and manages rural land on behalf of institutional investors, to scale up regenerative, ecological farming and forestry systems. Mainly talking about their Australian projects where they use livestock to regenerate the soils. They had some tough first years of the fund (two of of the worst droughts ever recorded) but things seems to be going better now.
We also…
Dec 20, 2016
01 Jurriaan Ruys, planting trees to restore 2b hectares degraded land
Co-founder of Landlife Company, planting trees to restore 2b hectares of degraded land.
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How to grow trees in the desert? And restore the 2b hectares of nature we destroyed?
This time I interviewed Jurriaan Ruys CEO and co founder of Land Life Company. A company dedicated to make large scale nature restoration projects viable by making sure the trees you plant (even in extremely harsh environments) survive and grow to be strong and healthy trees. Thus kickstarting the recovery of nature.
We covered quite a bit in this interview, from large scale ecosystem…