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
432 João Valente - 26 years no-till, outcompeting monocultures, and now teaching his neighbours
João Valente, owner of Monte Silveira, took over his family farm in central-eastern Portugal that was running on tobacco, broccoli, and melons with sixty-five people employed year-round, the rotation designed entirely around subsidies. W...
431 Diogo Pinho - Why Europe's largest silvopasture system is collapsing and how grazing fixes it
Diogo Pinho started his scientific career in the first DNA sequencing lab in Portugal, then did a hands-on PhD on the soil microbiome of cork and holm oak, studying why the trees get sick, before spending two years with Biome Makers, a soil mic...
430 Lara Espirito Santo - Source the cream, not the butter: fixing food waste through regen sourcing
Lara Espírito Santo grew up shuttling between Rio de Janeiro and her father’s industrial farms in Paraguay and Brazil, traded a planned career in politics and international development for a kitchen job at Silo in London, and went on to ...
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429 Raiza Rezende - Closing the gap between soil health and human health
Brazilian-trained chemical engineer, Raiza Rezende left a career path lined up by petroleum, gas, and pharmaceutical companies to study syntropic agriculture with Ernst Götsch, then WWOOFed her way across Spain, Portugal, and Greece befo...
428 John Gilliland - Why a top UK regen farmer hasn't sold his carbon yet
John Gilliland is a sixth-generation UK farmer and advocate for sustainable agriculture with a legacy in policy, academia, and innovation. As a leader of the ARC Zero project, his own farm is a model for "Beyond" Net Zero practices, where willo...
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
