Category: Transition finance

Sean Kidney on the $100 trillion bond market everyone in regen ag should know about

Sean Kidney, CEO and co-founder of the Climate Bonds Initiative, on the $100 trillion bond market everyone in regenerative ag and food should know about.

Nicolas Verschuere @ Groundswell – How regenerating soil health can improve farm profitability from year one

After Nicolas Verschuere’s panel at Groundswell on “How regenerating soil health can improve farm profitability from year one”, we dive a bit deeper into the start of the regenerative transition.

Allan Savory @ Groundswell – On what impact investors should focus on in regenerative agriculture

What would you tell impact investors who are interested in regenerative agriculture to focus on? At Groundswell 2019 I asked this question to Allan Savory, cofounder and president of the Savory Institute.

Eric Jackson on how to finance many more grain and soy farmers to transition to organic and beyond

Pipeline foods is working with the Rabobank and other funders to design and implement transition finance products to help farmers transitioning to organic and beyond. A new podcast with Eric Jackson, CEO and founder of Pipeline Foods.

Paul Chatterton – WWF’s Finance Lab working on landscapes of 1M hectares and $100M investments

Paul Chatterton is the co-founder of the Landscape Finance Lab an experimental unit inside the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). They incubate sustainable landscapes, structure, launch and fund deals at landscape scale.

Bert Glover – Investing $160M to regenerate Australian soils

Bert Glover, co-founder of Impact AG partners, on how he and his team put one hundred and sixty million to work in regenerative agriculture and food.

Mike Korchinsky, protecting forests in Congo and Kenya with local communities

Ecosystem restoration together with local communities in Kenya and Congo: an interview with Mike Korchinsky, founder and CEO of WildlifeWorks.

Scaling organic regenerative dairy and organic kiwis in New Zealand with Geoff Burke

An interview with Geoff Burke, co-founder of Agro-Ecological, a New Zealand based impact investment manager and advisory firm focused on farmland, on how to increase the impact investing in regenerative agriculture in New Zealand.

How funds can rebuild soil at scale

In these posts I will dive deeper into why appropriate scale is key and investment funds are one way to reach this.

Chuck de Liedekerke – We need more regenerative and financially literate farm managers

Chuck de Liedekerke, co-founder of SoilCapital, on why we need more regenerative and financially literate farm managers.