Category: Transition finance

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.

Esther Park, CEO of Cienega capital, on impact investing in regen ag and food

The CEO of Cienega Capital and founder of #NOREGRETS initiative, Esther Park talking about investing in Regenerative Agriculture.

Aymeric Jung and Josep Segarra – From Lehman Brothers to rebuilding the food system

Aymeric Jung and Josep Segarra of Quadia Capital (www.quadia.ch) have been investing in regenerative agriculture and food companies for a few years and put more than 10M to work.

Rufo Quintavalle, the impact investor poet of regenerative agriculture

How to take the plunge when wanting to invest in regenerative agriculture with Rufo Quintavalle, impact investor and poet.