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Jim Mann, using biochar and enhanced weathering to super charge the carbon potential of ecosystem regeneration

13th July 2021 koenvanseijen Ecosystem Services Payments, Farmers First Tech, Nutrients to Soil, Ownership, Regenerative Agriculture, Role of Animals 1 Comment

What is the role of profit in scaling regeneration? How do we sell credits for biochar? What is enhanced weathering and why does it matter? How can we deploy billions in restoring ecosystems, increasing biodiversity, and storing a lot of carbon permanently? Jim Mann, founder of The Future Forest Company, joins us to talk about the wonders of enhanced weathering co-deployed with biochar and why this experiment deserves billions of dollars of investment.

Mark Lewis, hunting for unicorns in regenerative agriculture and food

29th June 2021 koenvanseijen Diet Change, Farmers First Tech, Investor Stories, Ownership, Regenerative Agriculture, Role of Animals, Short Food Webs 4 Comments

Mark Lewis, managing partner at Trailhead Capital, joins us to talk about promising companies that promote regenerative agriculture

Benjamin Ware on how Nestlé, doing $93 billion a year in sales, is getting serious about regeneration

15th June 2021 koenvanseijen Diet Change, Ecosystem Services Payments, Landscape Design 2.0, Nutrient Dense Food, Regenerative Agriculture, Short Food Webs, Transition finance 2 Comments

This conversation with Benjamin Ware, manager of Responsible Sourcing for Nestlé, explores the role of large corporations in regenerative agriculture. As this is a transition, it is a slow process so don’t expect Nestlé to buy 100% regenerative products in 10 years and there might be a role for some chemical inputs in the transition.

Wayne Gibbins on the role of tech in regenerative agriculture from gene editing to nanotech soil sensors

8th June 2021 koenvanseijen Farmers First Tech, Nutrient Dense Food, Ownership, Regenerative Agriculture, Role of Animals 1 Comment

With Waybe Gibbins of New Foundation Farms we discussed how to invest in technology to regenerate soil at scale.

Jasper Bertels on how to regenerate and calculate the returns in a landscape of 1M ha

1st June 2021 koenvanseijen Ecosystem Services Payments, Landscape Design 2.0, Landscape Tech, Regenerative Agriculture 7 Comments

A dive into a model which shed some light on the potential returns of landscape scale regeneration with Jasper Bertels of Commonland.

Phil Taylor and Brandon Welch, the first investments of Mad Ag’s $10 million fund

25th May 2021 koenvanseijen Regenerative Agriculture, Transition finance 6 Comments

Phil Taylor and Brandon Welch of the Perennial Fund and MAD Agriculture just closed their fund of $10 million and the first four loans are out of the door, with many more to come. We discuss in this episode what they have learned about skin-in-the-game transition finance and partnering with farmers.

Dimitri Tsitos, Matteo Mazzola and Koen van Seijen on agroforestry, agroecology and the role of finance

18th May 2021 koenvanseijen Diet Change, Farmers First Tech, Nutrient Dense Food, Nutrients to Soil, Regenerative Agriculture, Role of Animals, Short Food Webs 2 Comments

This time Koen van Seijen is joined by Dimitri Tsitos of Mazi Farm and Matteo Mazzola of Iside Farm. Listen to their informal chat!

Soil Builders, regenerative agroforestry on Hawaii and soil carbon credits in Australia

13th May 2021 koenvanseijen Regenerative Agriculture, Soil Builders 0 Comments

What regenerative agriculture looks like with bread fruit in Hawaii and Bert Glover of Impact Ag Partners shares their part in the soil carbon credit deal with Microsoft and an Australian rancher.

Anastasia Volkova on how to monitor whole landscapes and watersheds from space

11th May 2021 koenvanseijen Ecosystem Services Payments, Farmers First Tech, Landscape Design 2.0, Landscape Tech, Regenerative Agriculture 2 Comments

With Anastasia Volkova, the CEO of Regrow, we kick off our new series about the technologies needed to bring regeneration to a landscape scale. With Anastasia we discuss remote sending and how their digital platform combines agronomy and scenario planning with monitoring, reporting, and verification

Paul Pizzala from a London city private bank to the biggest regenerative farm in the UK

7th May 2021 koenvanseijen Ecosystem Services Payments, Investor Stories, Nutrient Dense Food, Ownership, Regenerative Agriculture 2 Comments

How a London city private banker took a permaculture course and now applies his finance knowledge to build the biggest regenerative farm of the UK. Definitely stay until the end to hear from Mark Drewell, executive chair how investors are responding to the new equity offer compared to debt of New Foundation Farms.