Category: Transition finance

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.

Satya Tripathi, raising $2.3B to transition 6m smallholder farmers beyond organic

Satya Tropathi is Assistant Secretary-General and Head of the New York Office of the UN Environment Programme and chair of the board of the Sustainable India Finance Facility, a partnership between the United Nations Environment Programme, World Agroforestry Centre and BNP Paribas.

Kevin Egolf, how (retail) investors can provide land access to regen farmers

Kevin Egolf is the Chief Financial Officer of Iroquois Valley Farms (iroquoisvalleyfarms.com), a restorative farmland finance company providing land access to organic family farmers, with a focus on the next generation.

Martijn Blom, investing 15m into regen food/agri companies in Sub Saharan Africa

Entrepreneur turned impact investor with a new found passion for SOIL: an interview withMartijn Blom, senior manager investor relationships at Hivos Impact Investments, the impact investment arm of a large dutch NGO.

Ian McSweeney, 400M US acres will change hands soon, how to make them regenerative?!

Facilitating the transition of the best regenerative soil to the next regeneration of regen farmers: an interview with Ian McSweeney, director of the Agrarian Trust.

Eric Jackson – Doing over 150M in sales of organic grain and soy, started 18mon ago

Eric Jackson is CEO of Pipeline Foods. A conversation about large scale conversion of land to organic farming and what holds farmers back while the demand is growing so rapidly.

Jeremy, Harry, Ethan on planting millions of productive trees with farmers on their farms

An interesting conversation with Ethan, Jeremy and Harry, the co-founders of Propagate Ventures, who are scaling up agroforestry to every farm. Our conversation ranged from chestnuts to crowdfunding and how to get more impact investors into the agroforestry space.