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
421 Janet Maro — Farmers are the architects, not the audience
When Janet Maro started building training programs with farmers in Tanzania, she didn't arrive with a curriculum. She asked farmers what they knew, what they needed, and what they could bring to the table — and built from there. That instinct, ...
420 Silke German – Creating the Tesla of beans by saving the milpa system
Mexico has thousands of bean varieties. Most people living in cities know four to five. Silke Gérman is on a mission to change that.She is the founder of La Comandanta, a premium heirloom bean and salsa brand now in its twelfth year of ...
419 Max Küsters - Why every pioneering regen farm should sell ecosystem services
Gut & Bösel in Alt Madlitz, Brandenburg is one of the largest regenerative farms in Europe — 3,000 hectares of arable land and forestry on some of the sandiest, driest soils in Germany. For years, farmer Benedikt Bösel and his team have bee...
418 Sylvia Kuria - Farmers should grow their own food first
Sylvia Kuria started with a kitchen garden and a refusal to use chemicals on food for her newborn. Seventeen years later, she runs Sylvia's Basket, aggregates organic produce across Kenya, trains smallholder farmers on half-acre plots, and help...
417 Pablo Francisco Borrelli — Grazing carbon credits: the Trojan horse transforming Argentine grasslands
Argentina has just issued its first grazing-based carbon credits and the story behind them is forty years in the making. Pablo Francisco Borrelli, co-founder of Ruuts, has spent the last decade building the infrastructure to get farmers i...
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