Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food

Koen van Seijen
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Jun 22, 2021 • 47min

QA webinar with Dan Kittredge, Bionutrient Food Association

The audio recording of the QA Webinar with Dan Kittredge, founder of the Bionutrient Food Association,  hosted by Koen van Seijen. ----------------------------------------------------------Welcome to Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food.Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits here: www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag. Other ways to support our work:- Share the podcast - Give a 5-star rating- Or buy us a coffee… or a meal! www.Ko-fi.com/regenerativeagriculture. ------------------------------------------------------------  Find more about it on https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/qa-webinar-dan-kittredge/Find the video of the webinar on https://youtu.be/FACOOFPgDac. -----------------------------------------------------------For feedback, ideas, suggestions please contact us through Twitter @KoenvanSeijen, or get in touch through the website www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com. Join our newsletter on www.eepurl.com/cxU33P. The above references an opinion and is for information and educational purposes only. It is not intended to be investment advice. Seek a duly licensed professional for investment advice.Support the show (https://www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag)Thoughts? Ideas? Questions? Send us a message!LinkedInContact page website Find out more about our Generation-Re investment syndicate:https://gen-re.land/ Thank you to our Field Builders Circle for supporting us. Learn more hereSupport the showFeedback, ideas, suggestions? - Twitter @KoenvanSeijen - Get in touch www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.comJoin our newsletter on www.eepurl.com/cxU33P! Support the showThanks for listening and sharing!
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Jun 15, 2021 • 46min

123 Benjamin Ware on how Nestlé, doing 93 billion a year in sales, is getting serious about regeneration

This conversation with Benjamin Ware, manager of Responsible Sourcing for Nestlé, explores the role of large corporations in regenerative agriculture.-----------------------------------------------------Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag. Other ways to support our work:- Share the podcast - Give a 5-star rating- Or buy us a coffee… or a meal! www.Ko-fi.com/regenerativeagriculture. ------------------------------------------------------ As it is a transition, it is a slow process so don't expect Nestlé to buy 100% regenerative products in 10 years and there might be a role for some chemical inputs in the transition. More about this episode on https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/benjamin-ware.Find our video course here:https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/course/----------------------------------------------------------- For feedback, ideas, suggestions please contact us through Twitter @KoenvanSeijen, or get in touch through the website www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com. Join our newsletter on www.eepurl.com/cxU33P. The above references an opinion and is for information and educational purposes only. It is not intended to be investment advice. Seek a duly licensed professional for investment advice.Support the showThoughts? Ideas? Questions? Send us a message!Support the showFeedback, ideas, suggestions? - Twitter @KoenvanSeijen - Get in touch www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.comJoin our newsletter on www.eepurl.com/cxU33P! Support the showThanks for listening and sharing!
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Jun 8, 2021 • 47min

122 Wayne Gibbins on the role of tech in regenerative agriculture from gene editing to nanotech soil sensors

With Waybe Gibbins of New Foundation Farms we discussed how to invest in technology to regenerate soil at scale.-----------------------------------------------------Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag. Other ways to support our work:- Share the podcast - Give a 5-star rating- Or buy us a coffee… or a meal! www.Ko-fi.com/regenerativeagriculture. ------------------------------------------------------ Key Points: the appropriate role of tech in building soils working with nature,tech and farmers difference between gene editing and market assistant technology More about this episode on https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/wayne-gibbins.Find our video course here:https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/course/----------------------------------------------------------- For feedback, ideas, suggestions please contact us through Twitter @KoenvanSeijen, or get in touch through the website www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com. Join our newsletter on www.eepurl.com/cxU33P. The above references an opinion and is for information and educational purposes only. It is not intended to be investment advice. Seek a duly licensed professional for investment advice.Support the showThoughts? Ideas? Questions? Send us a message!LinkedInContact page website Find out more about our Generation-Re investment syndicate:https://gen-re.land/ Thank you to our Field Builders Circle for supporting us. Learn more hereSupport the showFeedback, ideas, suggestions? - Twitter @KoenvanSeijen - Get in touch www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.comJoin our newsletter on www.eepurl.com/cxU33P! Support the showThanks for listening and sharing!
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Jun 1, 2021 • 42min

121 Jasper Bertels on how to regenerate and calculate the returns in a landscape of 1M ha

A dive into a model which shed some light on the potential returns of landscape scale regeneration and how we can begin to measure and calculate themwith Jasper Bertels of Commonland, Senior Landscape Finance Specialist at Commonland.-----------------------------------------------------Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag. Other ways to support our work:- Share the podcast - Give a 5-star rating- Or buy us a coffee… or a meal! www.Ko-fi.com/regenerativeagriculture. ------------------------------------------------------ Very few people would argue we shouldn’t scale up regeneration to a landscape scale, but the immediate question always is: what are the returns? Both financial and non financial. With Jasper we also talk about the difficulty in calculating returns, the importance of discount rates and investing and leveraging investment funds, among others. More about this episode on https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/jasper-bertels.Find our video course here:https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/course/----------------------------------------------------------- For feedback, ideas, suggestions please contact us through Twitter @KoenvanSeijen, or get in touch through the website www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com. Join our newsletter on www.eepurl.com/cxU33P. The above references an opinion and is for information and educational purposes only. It is not intended to be investment advice. Seek a duly licensed professional for investment advice.Support the showThoughts? Ideas? Questions? Send us a message!Support the showFeedback, ideas, suggestions? - Twitter @KoenvanSeijen - Get in touch www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.comJoin our newsletter on www.eepurl.com/cxU33P! Support the showThanks for listening and sharing!
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May 27, 2021 • 3min

Online Video Course of Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food - Promo

The Online Video Course is 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 have been following the regenerative agriculture and food space since 2011. 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?', we think it is time to share our lessons learned! Find out more on https://gum.co/GgGixE----------------------------------------------------------- For feedback, ideas, suggestions please contact us through Twitter @KoenvanSeijen, or get in touch through the website www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com. Join our newsletter on www.eepurl.com/cxU33P. The above references an opinion and is for information and educational purposes only. It is not intended to be investment advice. Seek a duly licensed professional for investment advice.Support the show (https://www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag)Thoughts? Ideas? Questions? Send us a message!Support the showFeedback, ideas, suggestions? - Twitter @KoenvanSeijen - Get in touch www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.comJoin our newsletter on www.eepurl.com/cxU33P! Support the showThanks for listening and sharing!
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May 25, 2021 • 38min

120 Phil Taylor and Brandon Welch, the first investments of Mad Ag's $10 million fund

Phil Taylor and Brandon Welch of the Perennial Fund and MAD Agriculture just closed their fund of $10 million and the first four loans are out of the door, with many more to come. They share  what they have learned about skin-in-the-game transition finance and partnering with farmers. -----------------------------------------------------Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag. Other ways to support our work:- Share the podcast - Give a 5-star rating- Or buy us a coffee… or a meal! www.Ko-fi.com/regenerativeagriculture. ------------------------------------------------------ A deep dive into the financial aspects of agriculture, with focus on the progress of investors, farmers, and commodity brokers. More about this episode on https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/phil-taylor-brandon-welch.Find our video course here:https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/course/----------------------------------------------------------- For feedback, ideas, suggestions please contact us through Twitter @KoenvanSeijen, or get in touch through the website www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com. Join our newsletter on www.eepurl.com/cxU33P. The above references an opinion and is for information and educational purposes only. It is not intended to be investment advice. Seek a duly licensed professional for investment advice.Support the showThoughts? Ideas? Questions? Send us a message!LinkedInContact page website Thank you to our Field Builders Circle for supporting us. Learn more hereSupport the showFeedback, ideas, suggestions? - Twitter @KoenvanSeijen - Get in touch www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.comJoin our newsletter on www.eepurl.com/cxU33P! Support the showThanks for listening and sharing!
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May 18, 2021 • 43min

119 Dimitri Tsitos, Matteo Mazzola and Koen van Seijen on agroforestry, agroecology and the role of finance

Koen van Seijen is joined by Dimitri Tsitos, one of the hosts of The Regenerative Agroforestry Podcast and founder of Mazi Farm, and Matteo Mazzola,  farmer and consultant, specialised in agroecological systems, and founder  of Iside Farm.-----------------------------------------------------Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag. Other ways to support our work:- Share the podcast - Give a 5-star rating- Or buy us a coffee… or a meal! www.Ko-fi.com/regenerativeagriculture. ------------------------------------------------------ More about this episode on https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/dimitri-tsitos-matteo-mazzola-koen-van-seijen.Find our video course here:https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/course/----------------------------------------------------------- For feedback, ideas, suggestions please contact us through Twitter @KoenvanSeijen, or get in touch through the website www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com. Join our newsletter on www.eepurl.com/cxU33P. The above references an opinion and is for information and educational purposes only. It is not intended to be investment advice. Seek a duly licensed professional for investment advice.Support the showThoughts? Ideas? Questions? Send us a message!LinkedInContact page website Find out more about our Generation-Re investment syndicate:https://gen-re.land/ Thank you to our Field Builders Circle for supporting us. Learn more hereSupport the showFeedback, ideas, suggestions? - Twitter @KoenvanSeijen - Get in touch www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.comJoin our newsletter on www.eepurl.com/cxU33P! Support the showThanks for listening and sharing!
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May 13, 2021 • 26min

Soil Builders, regenerative agroforestry on Hawaii and soil carbon credits in Australia

In this episode we hear what regenerative agriculture looks like with bread fruit in Hawaii. Also Bert Glover of Impact Ag Partners shares their part in the soil carbon credit deal with Microsoft and an Australian rancher.-----------------------------------------------------Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits here: www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag. Other ways to support our work:- Share the podcast - Give a 5-star rating- Or buy us a coffee… or a meal! www.Ko-fi.com/regenerativeagriculture. ------------------------------------------------------ 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-6/----------------------------------------------------------- For feedback, ideas, suggestions please contact us through Twitter @KoenvanSeijen, or get in touch through the website www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com. Join our newsletter on www.eepurl.com/cxU33P. The above references an opinion and is for information and educational purposes only. It is not intended to be investment advice. Seek a duly licensed professional for investment advice.Support the show (https://www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag)Thoughts? Ideas? Questions? Send us a message!LinkedInContact page website Thank you to our Field Builders Circle for supporting us. Learn more hereSupport the showFeedback, ideas, suggestions? - Twitter @KoenvanSeijen - Get in touch www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.comJoin our newsletter on www.eepurl.com/cxU33P! Support the showThanks for listening and sharing!
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May 11, 2021 • 48min

118 Anastasia Volkova on how to monitor whole landscapes and watersheds from space

With Anastasia Volkova, CEO of Regrow, we discuss remote sensing and how their digital platform combines agronomy and scenario planning with monitoring, reporting, and verification.-----------------------------------------------------Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag. Other ways to support our work:- Share the podcast - Give a 5-star rating- Or buy us a coffee… or a meal! www.Ko-fi.com/regenerativeagriculture. ------------------------------------------------------ With Anastasia Volkova we kick off our new series about the technologies needed to bring regeneration to a landscape scale. The Landscape Tech series is supported by the Grantham Environmental Trust, which supports strategic communications and collaboration in solving the world’s most pressing environmental problems. More at granthamfoundation.orgMore about this episode on https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/anastasia-volkova.Find our video course here:https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/course/----------------------------------------------------------- For feedback, ideas, suggestions please contact us through Twitter @KoenvanSeijen, or get in touch through the website www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com. Join our newsletter on www.eepurl.com/cxU33P. The above references an opinion and is for information and educational purposes only. It is not intended to be investment advice. Seek a duly licensed professional for investment advice.Support the showThoughts? Ideas? Questions? Send us a message!Support the showFeedback, ideas, suggestions? - Twitter @KoenvanSeijen - Get in touch www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.comJoin our newsletter on www.eepurl.com/cxU33P! Support the showThanks for listening and sharing!
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May 7, 2021 • 52min

117 Paul Pizzala from a London city private bank to the biggest regenerative farm in the UK

How a London city private banker took a permaculture course and now applies his finance knowledge to build the biggest regenerative farm of the UK.-----------------------------------------------------Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag. Other ways to support our work:- Share the podcast - Give a 5-star rating- Or buy us a coffee… or a meal! www.Ko-fi.com/regenerativeagriculture. ------------------------------------------------------ Definitely stay until the end to hear from Mark Drewell, exe chair how investors are responding to the new equity offer compared to debt of New Foundation Farms.More about this episode on https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/paul-pizzala.Find our video course here:https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/course/----------------------------------------------------------- For feedback, ideas, suggestions please contact us through Twitter @KoenvanSeijen, or get in touch through the website www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com. Join our newsletter on www.eepurl.com/cxU33P. The above references an opinion and is for information and educational purposes only. It is not intended to be investment advice. Seek a duly licensed professional for investment advice.Support the showThoughts? Ideas? Questions? Send us a message!LinkedInContact page website Find out more about our Generation-Re investment syndicate:https://gen-re.land/ Thank you to our Field Builders Circle for supporting us. Learn more hereSupport the showFeedback, ideas, suggestions? - Twitter @KoenvanSeijen - Get in touch www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.comJoin our newsletter on www.eepurl.com/cxU33P! Support the showThanks for listening and sharing!

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