Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food

Regenerative farmer and physicist, turned AgTech founder ----------------------------------------------------------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. ----------------------------------------------------------- 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 easilyif you have a very diverse microbial life in the soil, it is potentially reflected in the nutritive value in the produce Abby worries any single measure, if she had to pick a measure the measure would diversity! the reason for starting Vidacycle was the lack of data from the olive farm. They planted 8000 trees but had no idea which trees were performing or notthe more we can support small to medium scale farmers to flourish more the betterthe tech solutions weren’t there or were way too expensivefundamental about all of our technology is empowering farmersfarmers are perfectly capable in understanding how their soil system worksfirst they developed sector mentor to help manage olive farms, vineyards etc. soil mentor for soils, very simple DIY soil testing for farmers, using only equipment already present on the farmvery excited about the opportunities to work with a number of small to medium size vineyards in Oregonbiggest issue in food and ag: food prices, food is so cheap, but the truth is food isn’t cheap. technology is not going to save us, what will save us is changing mind sets- technolog is a tool which will aid peopleplease don’t invest in a random technology which is going to save us allIf Abby had a magic wand: true cost accounting system for food Advice for investors: Go and work on some farms, and understand the reality of farmingBooks Abby suggested, show notes and links can be fond here:www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2019/03/23/abby-rose. -Thoughts? Ideas? Questions? Send us a message!Find out more about the position here:https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4278379588 https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/course 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!

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!" ----------------------------------------------------------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. ----------------------------------------------------------- Did we miss something? Do you have some news? Send us your thoughts in the comments below! This month we discuss:Two outcome based standards! Companies leading the changeRegeneration light or Regeneration journeyEnjoy,Ethan and KoenFind the Regeneration Newsroom Podcast of March 2019 here:https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2019/03/24/regeneration-newsroom-podcast-ft-ethan-soloviev-march-2019/.----------------------------------------------------------- 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.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!

Water is the ultimate capital of a farmer ----------------------------------------------------------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. ----------------------------------------------------------- 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 yearsWe are carbon based life but the living part is mostly waterThere is much more you (as a land owner/manager) to influence the water cycle on and above your land- Often when we talk about water we talk about big centralised water systems or the weather, Zach is focussed on decentralised water retention landscapes- Sub-irrigated, you use a lot less energyClimate changes: everywhere the same story the precipitation is more when it comes and it comes less oftenLarge dams and reservoirs are very energy intensive, smaller decentralised water retention systems are much more efficientFlood fire and drought mitigation is a sector Zach is very interested inZach is building a platform to franchise his model, to pilot this in 2020Huge opportunity for video visual content, what have we done during the last 10.000 years, and our role and our optionsCould be something we all can get behind, water retention. We can’t address climate change without addressing the water cycle disturbanceZach tries to use most of the time with costumers on the implementation not on the consultationAdvice for investors from Zach (not investment advice): Rewriting natural resource policy management, very often what Zach wants to do is illegal. All show notes and links:www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2019/02/03/zach-weiss. ----------------------------------------------------------- For feedback, ideas, suggestions please contact us through Twitter @Thoughts? Ideas? Questions? Send us a message!Find out more about the position here:https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4278379588 https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/course 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!

Welcome to the Regeneration Newsroom Podcast December 2018 A joint venture between Ethan Soloviev’s Regeneration Newsroom and the Investing in Regenerative Agriculture podcast----------------------------------------------------------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. ----------------------------------------------------------- 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. Did we miss something? Do you have some news? Send us your thoughts in the comments below!----------------------------------------------------------- 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.Thoughts? Ideas? Questions? Send us a message!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!

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----------------------------------------------------------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. ----------------------------------------------------------- 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 agro ecological transition back is the myth that regenerative agriculture is less profitable. And that is wrong especially in New Zealand. You are able to run leaner and have more resilient returnsOrganic is important, independently audited and gives the consumers some comfort and drives the premium. It has been successful for 20/30 yearsWe should focus on profit per acre instead of yields of acre  If you only substitute your non organic inputs with organic inputs you are destined to fail You need to completely redesign your management system There is a lot of water quality regulation coming in New Zealand Farmers are asking themselves how to farm and have the social licences from their community to keep farming New Zealand has an amazing climate, on most farms animals can be outside all year round Organic Kiwis Why are organic kiwis interesting? Market is booming Kiwis need ‘winter chilling’, in the current kiwi region there isn’t enough winter chilling and producers use a chemical to ‘fake’ the winter, this isn’t allowed in organic productionIt isn’t easy to deploy big quantities of (institutional) investment capitalOrganic regenerative dairy Dairy is a major industry but created huge environmental issues, mostly on water quality, run off etc. Regulation is becoming much stricter and forcing the intensive farms to change Geoff is focussed on one water catchment, to improve the watThoughts? Ideas? Questions? Send us a message!Find out more about the position here:https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4278379588 https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/course 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!

If you want to drive meaningful environmental change you are going to need to make regenerative agriculture more profitable. ----------------------------------------------------------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. ----------------------------------------------------------- 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 regenerative farmers and have meaningful conversationsTalk to investors who have been allocating capital to regenerative agriculture for a couple of yearsPlus learn about the food sector at large and the global challengesThoughts from the episode:When you demonstrate that the right economic choice is regenerative you will completely transform how money is allocated in agriculture. And there are trillion of dollars invested in agricultureIf you want to drive meaningful environmental change you are going to need to make it more profitableCarbon seems to be the best proxy for the (health of the) rest of the agriculture system- Farmers for the most part are still price takers, even if they grow a crop which is better for the planet for probably healthier for usFarmers could come for the regenerative premium and stay for the cost savings- Big buyers could also share in the cost savingsWhen retailers and processors are going to see healthy soil means healthy plants, there will be a very clear way to differentiating between a crop that is grown in a healthy soil and one that is notThe links and show notes can be found here:www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2018/12/10/chuck-de-liedekerke. ----------------------------------------------------------- For feedback, ideas, suggestions please contact us through Twitter @KoenvanSeijen, or get in touch through the website Thoughts? Ideas? Questions? Send us a message!Find out more about the position here:https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4278379588 https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/course 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!

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!" ----------------------------------------------------------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. ----------------------------------------------------------- Did we miss something? Do you have some news? Send us your thoughts in the comments below! This month we discuss:Australia Rising Farmer innovation & policy proposalsNew videos from Kiss the Ground & PatagoniaThe state of "regenerative media"Regenerative agriculture book ideas for the holidaysEnjoy,Ethan and KoenFind the Regeneration Newsroom Podcast of November 2018 here:www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2018/11/20/regeneration-newsroom-podcast-ft-ethan-soloviev-november-2018. ----------------------------------------------------------- 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.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!

Who has the real power in your regenerative company? Money? Family? Or Purpose? Did you dare to ask the power question?----------------------------------------------------------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. ----------------------------------------------------------- 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 their employees and customers: that the company is not a speculative good or commodity but a group of people working for a purpose. Main steward owned principles:Self governance isn’t tradable, steering wheel is always hold in trust by stewards of the companyPurpose, the company has a clear purposeHow to achieve the Mission lock?Golden Share, veto share etc. Thoughts:We are working on Alternative buy out capitalSteward ownership fosters intrinsic motivationWe are getting into time where it is important for your brand how you are ownedNormally you invest and you get power, but not in this caseClosed end fund structures is one of the reasons why we are selling companies again and again and againSo many impact investors go in and measure and make sure there is an impact, but then they go out and then what?Ask the power question: who owns the steering wheel? Can you buy it or can you inherit it? Or do you have another principal, where ability and values decide if you can steer the companyShow notes and links:www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2018/11/19/armin-steuernagel. ----------------------------------------------------------- For feedback, ideas, suggestions please contact us through Twitter @KoenvanSeijen, or get in touch through the website www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com. Join our newsletter on Thoughts? Ideas? Questions? Send us a message!Find out more about the position here:https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4278379588 https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/course 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!

How a peach turned the life of Victor Friedberg around and made him turn into a taste and soil investor.----------------------------------------------------------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. ----------------------------------------------------------- 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. went into yield and not into nutrients and flavour. It is hard to imagine any future that has 10b people eating healthy and sustainably of which soil is not part of that future Soil isn’t only the nexus between agriculture and climate change but also between agriculture climate change and nutrition We have a pretty good understanding of what genes are but we don’t know how they express themselvesThink of soil and a plant as a single organismTen/twenty/thirty years from now we will look more at nutrients per acreWe need a Global Soil Map with nutrient densityThe brands of the future are the brands who understand their brand is their supply chain- Clean labels are keyChemicals have for the most part made farmers not think about systemic thingsWe have to find markets for the cover crops, they need to turn into cash cropsThe interesting near term work is being done in changing from a chemical farming system to an organic farming system From a data poor to a data rich farming system, looking at, below ground phenotyping, micro satellites, above ground LidarA wish from Victor: How do we make the invisible more visible?If you are working on anything related to Soil 3.0 or know someone, more information on how to approach FoodShot and the conditions for grants and investments can be found here.Links and show notes:www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2018/11/10/victor-friedberg. ----------------------------------------------------------- Thoughts? Ideas? Questions? Send us a message!Find out more about the position here:https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4278379588 https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/course 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!

Raised 50M dollars and helped regen farmers access over 10.000 acres of farmland. ----------------------------------------------------------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. ----------------------------------------------------------- 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 focusses on multi generational farming families and exclusively organic production, although many of the farmers they work with go well beyond organic. They are looking for farmers who want to improve agriculture every single year, to increase soil biodiversity, organic is ‘just’ the first step. Some other insights:why they are starting to measure the carbon levels in the soil of the land they owntheir journey into the retail investor space and why it has been so long and why they are now almost ready to launch this!Kevin: 'once they (red. the farmers they work with) get their organic certification then the opportunities just continue to blossom, because of the markets that become available because of their knowledge growing because of getting exposure to other organic farmers and learning new systems. We want all of our farmers to work on incremental improvements. That was the basic principal of organic (red. when the organic movement started)' Exponential knowledge curve with regen farmers: 'When a farmer makes that commitment to organic it is drinking from the fire hose, there is so much to learn so much to do, the deeper you dive you realise the more you can go into the science and the technical aspects. Some of our farmers diving deep into that stuff. Coming up with systems and rotations that work for their geographies.Show notes and links:www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2018/10/05/kevin-egolf. ----------------------------------------------------------- For feedback, ideas, suggestiThoughts? Ideas? Questions? Send us a message!Find out more about the position here:https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4278379588 https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/course 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!