Tag: ecosystem services

Chuck de Liedekerke – Paying 1600 farmers to change their practices and just raised €15M

10th September 2024 koenvanseijen Ecosystem Services Payments, Regenerative Agriculture 0 Comments

A check-in with Chuck de Liedekerke, CEO and co-founder of Soil Capital and one of the veterans of the regen space, whom we interviewed almost 6 years ago! We talk about paying farmers for ecosystem services and why they seem to have hit an inflection point in the last two years. Working with over 1600 farmers to get them paid for carbon and more through corporations that buy from them. Corporates in the food space finally start to wake up to the opportunity and necessity of investing in their supply sheds. And to top it off, we talk about water cycles and landscape-scale regeneration!

Last week Soil Capital has completed its €15M Series B funding round.

Ivo Degn and Philippe Birker – Does a low interest, 3,5% on $2,5 million loan, really qualify as a regenerative investment?

27th October 2023 koenvanseijen Ecosystem Services Payments, Ownership, Regenerative Agriculture, Transition finance 1 Comment

A conversation with Ivo Degn and Philippe Birker, founders of Climate Farmers, about the reason why they picked carbon credits as the first business to focus on, how they recently raised $2,5 million in a very unusual way, at least for a startup, what they consider a regenerative investment and much more.

Vaughn Tan – What is population wheat, the world’s best restaurants and low intervention wine should teach us about investing in regeneration and uncertainity

18th July 2023 koenvanseijen Diet Change, Ecosystem Services Payments, Regenerative Agriculture, Short Food Webs 0 Comments

A fascinating and wide ranging conversation with Vaughn Tan, author of the Uncertainty Mindset, a fascinating newsletter about not knowing. Vaughn was in the army, worked at Google, studied at some of the world’s best restaurants. We talked about uncertainty vs risk, low-intervention wine, population wheat and so much more.

Jeroen Klompe on building a fair farmers first marketplace

11th August 2020 koenvanseijen Ecosystem Services Payments, Farmers First Tech, Investor Stories, Nutrient Dense Food, Ownership, Regenerative Agriculture 6 Comments

An interview with Jeroen Klompe, co-founder of Klompe Landbouw and Soil Heroes on why everything starts with biodiversity above and below ground and how one of the most advanced regenerative farmers in the Netherlands is setting up a fair farmers first marketplace to connect farmers with buyers of ecosystem services.