Tag: land

Catherine Tubb, why precision fermentation completely disrupts industrial animal farming by 2030

Catherine Tubb of RethinkX is the co-author of the “Rethinking Food & Agriculture” report. Will precision fermentation really be 100 times more land efficient, produce 10-25 times more feedstock and be 10 times more water efficient? And what does it do with nutrient density and healthcare?

Geert van der Veer, how Herenboeren is scaling community owned farms in Europe

Geert van der Veer, co-founder of Herenboeren, a movement to build a thousand community owned regenerative farms in Europe.

Isabella Tree – Rewilding a 3,500 acre British farm that was never profitable before

Isabella Tree is the author of the book Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm. She runs, together with with her husband, the environmentalist Charlie Burrell, the Knepp experiment, the pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex , using free-roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife.

Tony Lovell, how the $ 100M SLM fund handled the six driest years on record

A check-in interview with Tony Lovell, co-founder and CEO of SLM Partners an asset manager that acquires and manages rural land on behalf of institutional investors, to scale up regenerative, ecological farming and forestry systems.

John Kempf – Forget about soil, Focus on plant health instead

John Kempf is the founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture, a plant nutrition and biostimulants consulting company, and a top expert in the field of biological and regenerative farming.

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.

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.

Osvaldo de Falco, connecting Italian organic fruit farmers directly to consumers

How do we pay a fair price to our farmers? If not they can’t take care of our land. An interview with Osvaldo de Falco, co-founder of Biorfarm, a platform which connects Italian organic fruit farmers directly to the end customers, while paying the farmers a fair price.

Judith D Schwartz – What is possible with soil?

From the interview with Judith D. Schwarz, a journalist whose recent work looks at soil as a hub for multiple environmental, economic and social challenges-and solutions.