Tag: climate change

Anthony Myint – Sourcing better isn’t going to change the food system, award-winning chef might have the silver bullet for system change

5th March 2024 koenvanseijen Diet Change, Nutrient Dense Food, Regenerative Agriculture, Short Food Webs 0 Comments

A conversation with Anthony Myint, co-founder and executive director of Zero Foodprint. Award winning chef, Myint was disappointed about his impact on acres by his farm to table restaurants and he is now fully committed to systems change. Koen and Anthony talk about how to really move the needle on many more new practice acres which are acres where regenerative practices are used for the first time, opting out mechanisms where a small opt out fee is added to restaurant bills and food products, collective regeneration, and much more.

Paul McMahon – With over $500M invested, there is a regenerative edge of about 1-3%

27th February 2024 koenvanseijen Investor Stories, Regenerative Agriculture, Role of Animals, Transition finance 0 Comments

A conversation with Paul McMahon, co-founder of SLM, about why it makes so much sense to put money to work in real regenerative agriculture, yields, and more importantly, profits and the regenerative edge, and more.

Few papers in regenerative agriculture have been shared more than the Investment Case for Ecological Agriculture written by Paul McMahon. We have shared it countless times, learned a whole lot from the simple investment terms describing why it makes so much sense to put money to work in real regeneration. Now it has been updated, even better, it has been completely rewritten and with a lot more science and a lot more experience from the field.

In the conversation with one of the most experienced regenerative farmland investors, we explore the modules of our recent video course on why we need to change agriculture and food systems urgently, and why now is the time to do it.

Martin Reiter – Why regen hasn’t produced Steve Jobs yet and how to build a modern Nestlé

23rd January 2024 koenvanseijen Diet Change, Investor Stories, Regenerative Agriculture, Short Food Webs, Transition finance 2 Comments

A conversation with Martin Reiter, former senior manager at Airbnb and Wayfair, and prior to this at McKinsey and Groupon, about what excites him about regeneration, where are the Steve Jobs and Elon Musk of regenerative agriculture going to build companies, and how can we help more talent flow into the space?

Josh and Rebecca Tickell – If you like sick people and climate chaos keep investing in chemical agriculture

28th November 2023 koenvanseijen Beyond Food, Diet Change, Nutrient Dense Food, Regenerative Agriculture 1 Comment

A conversation with Josh Tickell and Rebecca Harrell Tickell, producers, directors, and writers of the movie Common Ground and previously Kiss the Ground. We talk about their two movies, food choices and their impact on the environment and health, the chemical agriculture model going bankrupt and much more.

Sam Kass – Get people access to carrots before talking about nutrient density, former Obama’s chef and nutrition advisor turned investor says

17th October 2023 koenvanseijen Diet Change, Ecosystem Services Payments, Nutrient Dense Food, Nutrient Density in Food, Policy and Legislation, Regenerative Agriculture, Transition finance 0 Comments

A conversation with Sam Kass, former White House Chef and Senior Policy Advisor for Nutrition of the Obama’s administration and partner at Acre VC. We talk about the potential of VC in the space, the challenges of the real world and why we should focus on getting everyone access to carrots before focusing on the quality and growing practices, why carbon payments is a very interesting and real entry point to scale, and more.

Keoni Lee – Why the islands of Hawaii with 10 million tourists a year are the perfect and challenging place for a regenerative revolution

10th October 2023 koenvanseijen Regenerative Agriculture, Short Food Webs, Transition finance 1 Comment

A conversation with Keoni Lee, CEO of Hawaii investment ready impact intermediary, about having to import massive amounts of food, inputs, fuel, etc., being at huge risk from climate disruptions and climate change and much more. Learn more on how investing with a systems change lens in food and agriculture looks like in Hawaii.

Tina Owens – Only 1% of nutrition data is tracked on food labels and that means lots of opportunities for companies

3rd October 2023 koenvanseijen Nutrient Dense Food, Nutrient Density in Food, Regenerative Agriculture 0 Comments

A conversation with Tina Owens, regenerative agriculture consultant and part of the Nutrient Density Alliance (for Regenerative Agriculture), about the state of the nutrient density space, the research, why life cycle assessments are broken and a lot more.

Olivier Husson – Photosynthesis is the biggest lever we have in health, climate, droughts, floods, but most plants are too sick to do it properly

19th September 2023 koenvanseijen Nutrient Dense Food, Nutrient Density in Food, Regenerative Agriculture 2 Comments

A conversation with Olivier Husson, an engineer in agronomy working on a health approach based around the balance of Eh (electrons) and pH (protons) in soil, plants, microorganisms, animals etc. Unbalanced Eh-pH conditions lead to poor nutrition and poor photosynthesis, and as a consequence, pests and pathogens attack oxidized plants.

Arizona Muse from walking fashion shows for Prada to global activist for biodynamic farming

9th August 2022 koenvanseijen Ecosystem Services Payments, Nutrients to Soil, Regenerative Agriculture, Short Food Webs 0 Comments

A special interview with Arizona Muse, Greenpeace Oceans Ambassador, founder of the charity Dirt, model and advisory board member of the US Biodynamic Demeter Alliance.

Mariko Thorbecke – Let’s focus on making agriculture fossil fuel free

26th July 2022 koenvanseijen Ecosystem Services Payments, Nutrients to Soil, Regenerative Agriculture, Role of Animals 0 Comments

Mariko Thorbecke, expert in Life Cycle Assessment, independent consultant bridging between corporate climate, net-zero commitments and regenerative agriculture, joins us to talk about the importance of fossil-free farming, the greenhouse gases presented into a single metric of CO2 equivalents and much more.