Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food

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. ----------------------------------------------------------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 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 Calhoun on an evening walk in one of her favourite places on her ranch, a diverse perennial meadow. From a great interview with Sallie by BtheChange: ----------------------------------------------------------- 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!Find out more about the position here:https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4278379588 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!

Working with farmers in Zambia and South Africa by really really listening to them. ----------------------------------------------------------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. ----------------------------------------------------------- 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, even if they don’t grow that mix of crops today because of circumstances forcing them to choose for short term solutionsIt is essential to find the right local crop mixWhen you are working with farmers and really listen, business cases will emerge, but you can't have a strict 10 year planningThere are huge opportunities in local processing in Africa, due to long distances to markets, challenging infrastructure, and it makes a lot of sense to process locallyLocal processing makes it possible to pay farmers for Regenerative agricultureAnd this offers many opportunities for (patient) Impact InvestorsShow notes and links:www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2017/04/29/thekla-teunis-gijs-boers. ----------------------------------------------------------- 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!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!

Ecosystem restoration together with local communities in Kenya and Congo----------------------------------------------------------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 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 investing community and how to get involved in this often very difficult work and luckily he shared them with me. Enjoy!The last 15 min we discussed Impact Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and I decided to share this as a separate podcast, you can find it here: www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2017/05/07/mike-korchinsky-2. Show notes and links:www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2019/03/14/mike-korchinsky-1. ----------------------------------------------------------- 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!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!

Investing in small holder farmers and regenerative agriculture.----------------------------------------------------------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. ----------------------------------------------------------- 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/MeridiaEnjoy! Notes and links:www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2017/05/01/michiel-lenstra. ----------------------------------------------------------- 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!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!

Working with farmers in Spain to bring back hope and inspiration through regenerative agriculture in farming communities.----------------------------------------------------------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. ----------------------------------------------------------- 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 links:www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2017/04/30/michiel-de-man. ----------------------------------------------------------- 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!Find out more about the position here:https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4278379588 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!

Farmers financial health. Impact investing in regenerative agriculture methodes in Italy and Northern California.----------------------------------------------------------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. ----------------------------------------------------------- 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 survive, so they can actually take care of the soil in the long run.Show notes and links:www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2017/01/25/joe-baird. ----------------------------------------------------------- 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!Find out more about the position here:https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4278379588 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!

Co-founder of SLM Partners, on why ecological farming makes much more business sense than chemical based farming.----------------------------------------------------------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. ----------------------------------------------------------- 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 and non conventional producers! Where are the challenges and opportunities in the sector and what should (smart) impact investors look for? Enjoy! Show notes and links:www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2016/12/26/paul-mcmahon. ----------------------------------------------------------- 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!Find out more about the position here:https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4278379588 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!

Using cows and holistic management to regenerate soils, with a 100M impact investing fund. ----------------------------------------------------------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. ----------------------------------------------------------- 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 talked about the resistance innovators like SLM face when doing something different in a conservative sector like agriculture. Both from the farmers side as from the investors side, it takes a lot of courage (or necessity) to try something different.Some more points we touched in the interview:Regenerative Agriculture isn’t spreadsheet agricultureWe are building a little village around each grass plantStress on animals is the biggest hidden cost on livestock Your investment, is based on biology Where does it (regenerative agriculture) fit in a portfolio, not connected to other asset classes, oil prices etc.What role does regenerative agriculture play in your portfolio? Is it solid and stable enough for a decade or longer?Show notes and links:www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2017/02/07/tony-lovell. ----------------------------------------------------------- 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!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!

Co-founder of Landlife Company, planting trees to restore 2b hectares of degraded land.----------------------------------------------------------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. ----------------------------------------------------------- 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 restoration projects (with Monarch butterflies in Mexico) and smaller topics like how it is to scale up a company this quick and moving from a very corporate atmosphere to found a startup. Enjoy! Show notes and links:www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2016/12/21/jurriaan-ruys. ----------------------------------------------------------- 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!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!