Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food
Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food podcast features the 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. Hosted by Koen van Seijen.
Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food
Latest Episodes
446 Dave Oates - 250 years of farming regeneratively in Cornwall
Dave Oates is a seventh-generation farmer, on land in Cornwall his family has farmed for more than 250 years. When he first went to Groundswell five years ago, he thought the farm was 20 years behind. He left thinking it was 20 years ahead: the...
445 Gonçalo Pereira Miguel — Zero hay costs in a 400-hectare Montado managed with precision grazing at 24
Gonçalo Pereira Miguel is 24 years old and the first person in three generations of his family to return to their 700-hectare Montado farm in Portugal’s Alentejo. The farm had been degraded by decades of continuous grazing, treated as an inheri...
444 Peter Herz – The most successful food and agriculture investor you’ve never heard of
Peter Herz spent his career as a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley deep tech: chips, semiconductors, data storage. Then a doctor's visit in 2010 changed everything. Today he is co-founder and general partner of 1st Course Capital, one of th...
443 John Schoonbee - Why a $43B reinsurer believes type 2 diabetes is reversible
Four or five eggs, swimming in butter. For breakfast!That is how Dr. John Schoonbee eats. A trained doctor and Global Chief Medical Officer at Swiss Re (a $43 billion reinsurance giant), John studied medicine in South Africa and...
442 Francisco Roque de Pinho – Don't say regenerative if you want to raise capital
What if the best argument for regenerative agriculture isn't the planet, but the profit? Francisco Roque de Pinho didn't set out to become a regenerative farmer. He came from capital markets, carbon trading, and strategic consulting — and stumb...
Fan Mail
Hi Koen, thanks for another thought provoking episode! One idea on other regen case studies is New England. Lots of natural reforestation over the past ~100yrs. I wonder if there’s good data on rainfall patterns down wind from there? Thanks, Ian W (Gen-Re member)
New Westminster, BC
