Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food
We talk to 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.
Episodes
408 episodes
339 Yanik Nyberg - Are saltwater plants grown on tens of millions ha of abandoned, drained salt marshes going to be the livestock feed of the future?
A conversation with Yanik Nyberg, co-founder of Nara Climate and Sea Water Solutions, about feed for aquaculture and on-land livestock, salinity—when soils get saltier. Millions of hectares of former soil marshes close to the coast have been dr...
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Episode 339
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338 David Brunmayr - The future of agriculture is small-scale, now let’s build the tools for it
A conversation with David Brunmayr, co-founder of Organic Tools, where they believe the future of agriculture is small-scale, and make the machinery and tools to make that vision a reality. We discuss the enormous advantages of smaller-scale an...
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Episode 338
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237 Franco Fubini - Delivering unmatched flavour to 2000 of the world's top restaurant and unlocking consumer demand
A conversation with Franco Fubini, co-founder of Natoora and author of In Search of the Perfect Peach, about flavour as the key to unlocking consumer demand. We talked about what leads to great flavour, which is of course soil health, but first...
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Episode 236
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236 Chris Smaje - High tech manufactured food won’t save us. Spread money, people and energy more thinly instead
A conversation with Chris Smaje, farmer and author of Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future, about manufactured food not being the solution to the food, agriculture, and climate crises, despite what George Monbiot portraits in Regenesis. Why...
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Episode 235
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235 Stefania Avanzini - Why and how 26 food giants with a turn over of $900 billion are getting serious about regeneration and biodiversity
A conversation with Stefania Avanzini, director of One Planet Business for Biodiversity (OP2B), about working hard to create alternative vertically integrated, farmed-owned food companies and transforming the current giants. Because, whether we...
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324 Frederik Lean Hansen - Small individual farms are probably not the future of farming in Europe
A wide-ranging conversation with Frederik Lean Hansen, a regenerative farm business consultant who spent a year traveling and working on 12 farms alongside regenerative farmers across Europe. He is currently active as a Farm Finance genitor and...
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Episode 324
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323 Chuck de Liedekerke - Paying 1600 farmers to change their practices and just raised €15M
A check-in with Chuck de Liedekerke, CEO and co-founder of Soil Capital and one of the veterans of the regen space, whom we interviewed almost 6 years ago! We talk about paying farmers for ecosystem services and why they seem to have hit an inf...
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Episode 323
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322 Nettie Wiebe - We have become monocultural in our fields and minds
A conversation with Nettie Wiebe, organic farmer and long-time small farm activist in Canada and globally, one of the founders of La Via Campesina, part of the IPES food panel, and coauthor of the recent Land Squeeze report. We talk about land ...
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Episode 322
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321 Eduard Müller - Regenerative education is the answer, whatever the question was
A conversation with Eduard Müller, founder of University for International Cooperation (UCI) and leading Costa Rica Regenerativa, about regenerative education: what does it mean, and why is it so powerful to focus on educating people who want t...
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Episode 321
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320 Matthijs Westerwoudt - Paying farmers for cultivating weeds and making biodiversity super tasty by selling drinks and teas made from native plants
Matthijs Westerwoudt is the co-founder of Wilder Land, a company transforming native plants, often considered weeds, into highly desirable products. These plants, once dismissed as unwanted, are now being used to create delicious drinks, herbal...
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Episode 320
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319 Mark Lewis – After putting half of their $50M fund to work in regen, what has one of the leading VCs in the world learned?
A check-in interview with Mark Lewis, managing partner at Trailhead Capital, about the inevitability of the "regenerative revolution" and the potential for significant financial and non-financial returns in this space. What does putting almost ...
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Episode 319
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318 Clare Hill and Annie Rayner - The counter-narrative to industrialised chicken: what does it mean to produce deeply regenerative chicken and eggs?
A conversation with Annie Rayner and Clare Hill, founders of Planton Farm, Roots to Regeneration and Impeckable Poultry, experts in poultry welfare and regenerative agriculture transition pioneers in the UK. We discuss where to start when you w...
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Episode 318
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317 Willem Ferwerda - Kickstarted the restoration industry with Commonland 11 years ago, now finally big money shows interest, but we need billions
A conversation with Willem Ferwerda, one of the founders of the regeneration space, which barely existed 11 years ago when he started Commonland. How and why is it so fundamental to take a landscape view and get all the stakeholders to look at ...
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Episode 317
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316 Alf Gøran Knutsen – The good, bad and opportunities of the multi million dollar salmon industry, from shooting lasers under water to feed
Salmon: there isn’t a more contagious topic within aquaculture than salmon farming. With Alf Gøran Knutsen, CEO of Kvaroy, a leader in the world of sustainable salmon farming, we discuss the opportunities to grow a potentially very sustainabl...
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Episode 316
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315 Felipe Pasini - Walking the land of Amadeco Syntropic Farm with regenerative farmer
What if you could turn a dry, water-scarce plot of land into a thriving ecosystem? In this new episode of Walking the Land with a Regenerative Farmer we follow the journey of Felipe Pasini, as we explore his transformative work on the Amadeco f...
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Episode 315
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314 Sowmya Balendiran - How to turn seaweed farming into an industry? Start by farming 1000 football fields of tropical seaweed in Indonesia
A conversation with Sowmya Balendiran, co-founder and chief business officer at Sea6 Energy, about regenerative aquaculture, how to restore the oceans and use them more to reduce the pressure on land systems, get fossil fuel use down drasticall...
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Episode 314
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313 Jay Albany - Despite the graveyard of D2C companies, it can work in the world’s most remote city
A conversation with Jay Albany, CEO of Dirty Clean Food, about what it takes to build a successful direct-to-consumer business- basically buying from regen farmers and delivering to consumer, restaurants, etc.- in the regen space and in the mos...
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Episode 313
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312 Maarten van Dam – How to fund the transition of the first pioneers in regenerative agriculture
A conversation with Maarten van Dam, founder of Schevichoven Regenerative farm, about numbers when transitioning from conventional to regenerative agriculture and keeping records on inputs, prices, and machinery. Maarten is keeping a lot of rec...
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Episode 312
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Fireside Chat with John Kempf & Koen van Seijen @ Groundswell '24
Ever wondered how podcasting can transform the field of regenerative agriculture? This fire side chat with John Kempf and Koen van Seijen, hosts of the most followed and longest existing podcasts in the regenerative agriculture and food space, ...
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311 Henk Mooiweer - If you can get paid now by Nestlé, Shell and Microsoft to change grazing practices, why wait?
A conversation with Henk Mooiweer, co-founder of Grassroots Carbon, about the current state of carbon markets, high quality soil carbon removal credits, how this company manage to sell 5 million dollars’ worth of them, and where the market is g...
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Episode 311
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310 Jason Hayward-Jones - Corporates paying for low carbon grains and why virtual twins are key in gaming and Scottish whiskey
A check-in interview with Jason Hayward-Jones, founder & director at REGENFARM Ltd., and Sustainable Agriculture Specialist at Cefitra, about why corporations are suddenly paying for low-carbon grain, the revolutionary impact of digital twi...
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Episode 310
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309 Bridget Emmett – Moving over carbon soil compaction is the real issue in agriculture
A conversation with Bridget Emmett, a principal scientist at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and a board member of the EU Mission Soil. Bridget shares her inspiring journey from a passionate botany student to a leading soil scientist, r...
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Episode 309
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308 Georg Baunach - More than half of the fish you eat is farmed: basics, potential and risks of investing in aquaculture
A conversation with Georg Baunach, managing partner and co-founder of Hatch Blue, a knowledge-driven aquaculture and alternative seafood specialist. We discuss what aquaculture is and why it is important; what, where, and how to farm; what are ...
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Episode 308
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307 Kat Bruce - Going from putting insects in a food processor to raising $27M in 10 years and building the biggest eDNA biodiversity monitoring company
A conversation with Kat Bruce, founder of Nature Metrics , going from scooping insects with a small net and putting them in a food processor, to analysing the goo with an EDNA machine, to working with lots of large food corporations on measurin...
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Episode 307
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306 Fernando Russo - From selling Playboy's to growing coffee, cacao, credit and lots of cows
A deep dive conversation with Fernando Russo about the reasons why he is going deep into coffee and cacao without being a coffee drinker and how he turned from being a Playboy’s salesman and a travel entrepreneur to an impact investor in the re...
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Episode 306
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