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.
Episodes
492 episodes
410 Paul Hawken – Carbon is life, not the enemy
Carbon is life, not the enemy. And in this wide-ranging conversation with the legend that is Paul Hawken, we get into all of it. Paul is an activist, entrepreneur with Project Drawdown and Project Regeneration and prolific writer who started a ...
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Episode 410
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1:11:16
409 Olusola Sowemimo - How a Nigerian lawyer built a profitable organic farm with standards, data and community
We sit down with Olusola Sowemimo, a lawyer-turned-farmer and founder of Ope Farms in Nigeria, to unpack how grief became a blueprint for organic, traceable, and profitable agriculture. Her catalyst was a cancer conference in California where s...
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Episode 408
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1:19:13
408 Ivan Mandela - Unicorns can wait, African farmers can't
It’s a very interesting time for African agriculture and food, the continent is realising it’s potential to help feed the world, money is flowing into infrastructure to unlock this, more and more talent is coming into the space and the realisat...
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Episode 408
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59:59
407 Tania Rodriguez Riestra - Systems change investing done right
The food, agriculture and planetary systems, for that matter, are all in serious need of change. No news there. But how? Individual investments and grants, however large, will never be big enough to move these systems. What we need is ...
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Episode 407
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1:40:57
406 Neal Collins – Agrihoods for free-range kids: a Trojan horse for regenerative agriculture
Think about where and how you live. Close your eyes and picture your ideal neighbourhood. We bet it looks something like this: a walkable neighbourhood designed around a fully functional farm, with different types of houses built from healthy, ...
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Episode 406
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1:20:19
405 Sylvia Banda - How she trained 60,000 farmers and transformed Zambia's food system
A conversation with Sylvia Banda, Zambian business woman, restaurateur and social entrepreneur about her journey started when when she was 12. She opened her first food company, and she hasn’t stopped since. She now runs a multi-million-...
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Episode 404
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1:00:20
404 Joe Tomandl – CAFOs have caught up, can regenerative dairy still win?
We are at an interesting moment in the dairy sector. For years, smaller farmers with around 200 cows, who were also great graziers, could undercut the costs of large concentrated dairy operations, keeping costs low, taking healthy margins in go...
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Episode 404
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403 Million Belay - Why the USAID shutdown was a gift to agroecology in Africa
The difference between agroecology and regenerative agriculture is the deep social change we need in the food and agriculture system. As Laura Ortiz Mon...
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Episode 403
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Martin Reiter - Meat Mythbusters (Bonus Episode)
This is deep dive into common misconceptions about red meat, methane emissions from cows, and the feasibility of transitioning to grass-fed beef production. We discuss the health impacts of red meat based on the cow's diet, the actual environme...
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402 Martin Reiter – Building a $100B home for regenerative brands
What is needed to truly move the needle on health? Create more research, more trials on nutrient density, more advocacy? Or, as Martin Reiter, founder of RARE argues, create the next regen Nestlé or Unilever: a 100 billion (yes, that’s a B) reg...
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Episode 402
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401 Bart van der Zande - A venture studio is the solution to all our regenerative challenges
How to get more entrepreneurs building in the regeneration space? If you are a regular listener of this podcast, you have heard us discuss this so many times you probably lost count. No, we are not saying entrepreneurs and companies are ...
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400 Omoke Brian - Inside Africa’s regenerative agriculture opportunity
Bill Gates Foundation works in Africa: what goes through your mind when you hear those words? We all probably quickly have our thoughts ready, but hold on a second. Just as we often talk about farmers without asking them, we often talk about th...
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Episode 400
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1:00:14
399 AI in Ag: What’s Possible, What’s Not, What Farmers Need to Know @ Groundswell 2025
AI is transforming agriculture, how can farmers and land managers be sure it works for them? What digital twins, soil health metrics, novel robot sensors and other technologies can do to support profitable farming and enable ecosystem service p...
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398 Thekla Teunis and Gijs Boers - Regenerative practices deliver higher quality and way higher prices in year one
Regenerative practices lead to higher quality and much higher prices in year one and, over time, to lower costs, which makes the regenerative business case in certain cash crops that are exported (spices, tea, coffee, etc.) so strong that it al...
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What 2025 taught us about making regen bankable, animals, water, chefs, scale, Al in ag, agroforestry, education, food as medicine, ROl, storytelling
This is our 2025 wrap episode. If 2025 had a soundtrack, it would be pressure: pressure on systems, on people, on animals, on land.Heat. Drought. Fire. Flood. Repeating across regions and headlines.But this year we also paid atten...
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397 Andres Jara - How a chef-butcher-farmer turned legumes into a scalable, clean-label food that rewards farmers
How do you make legumes great again? This is not a political episode. It’s about something far more urgent: giving legumes the role they truly deserve in our food system. Together with Andres Jara, co-founder of Favamole, w...
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Episode 397
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396 Erin Martin - Making America Healthy Again with food as medicine, not Ozempic
Make America healthy again: is that helping the food-as-medicine movement or hurting it? And why is it so important to focus on quality food as medicine- which means nutrient density and real quality- rather than settling for si...
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395 Alfonso Chico de Guzmán - The ag-tech that brings cows back
Straight from La Junquera farm, in Murcia, Spain, a Walking the Land episode with Alfonso Chico de Guzmán, a regenerative livestock farmer.It starts as a hobby. So, you take a few cows just like someo...
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Episode 395
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394 Stef van Dongen - Trees don’t send invoices so a Catalan valley is rewiring water, forests and finance
A check in conversation with Stef van Dongen, founder of The Pioneers of Our Time. Sitting at the fireplace we trace how neighbors who barely spoke began phoning across ridgelines, how tourism money are flowing uphill to fund forest work, and h...
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Episode 394
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393 Simon Kraemer - The 'We’ll starve without fertilizer' crowd forgot to check the fields
How do we feed the world? It’s all nice and cute this regenerative agriculture and food stuff, but how do we actually feed the world? By 2050, we’ll need to produce double the amount of food. This is a question you, like me, get a lot, we bet, ...
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Episode 393
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392 Toby Parkes - Mapping the underground fungi world by building a unicorn
In order to save and more importantly restore biodiversity we don’t need biodiversity or carbon credits; we need biologists to find super profitable business models within the magical deeply complex world of nature. It's the case of Toby Parkes...
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Episode 392
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391 Julia Kasper - Rewetting peatlands is the biggest climate opportunity to cut CO2
Meet Julia Kasper, cofounder and CEO of Zukunftmoor, a company rewetting drained peatlands and growing sphagnum moss to transform how we think about agriculture. Their powerful approach reduces greenhouse gas emissions and makes climate-friendl...
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Episode 391
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390 Nicola Giuggioli - Building a regenerative brand: from soil health to living wages
Can you pay a decent year-round salary to farm workers, enough to go to a bank, get a mortgage, and still not charge prices that make your produce accessible only to the happy few? What do vibrations, pest management, nutrient density, and proc...
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Episode 390
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389 Jonathan Lundgren - You need more cows, not fewer, to save the planet
A new conversation with Jonathan Lundgren, one of the world’s most interesting and most cited scientists when it comes to regenerative agriculture. For the last four years, Jonathan and his team have been in full swing with their 1000 Farms Ini...
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Episode 389
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388 Justin Bruch - Organic out-earn conventional, how do we transition more farms and farmers?
A conversation with Justin Bruch, Cofounder-President & CEO of Clear Frontier, born and raised 5th generation Iowa farmer. He has actively farmed on 4 continents and has spent his entire career working in agriculture across North Amer...
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Episode 388
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