Tag: network

Stefania Avanzini – Why and how 26 food giants with a turn over of $900 billion are getting serious about regeneration and biodiversity

24th September 2024 koenvanseijen Regenerative Agriculture, Role of corporations 0 Comments

A conversation with Stefania Avanzini, director of One Planet Business for Biodiversity (OP2B), about working hard to create alternative vertically integrated, farmed-owned food companies and transforming the current giants. Because, whether we like it or not, most of the food we buy in supermarkets comes from these companies. These companies are finally feeling the pain from climate weirding in their supply chains. So, what are they doing about it, and why did 26 of them join the coalition of businesses for biodiversity?

How does a coalition with companies with a total turnover of over 900 billion dollars work on changing the food system? These are the whales of the food system, not the small fishes, and with all their issues and challenges, they are fundamental to the future of our food system.

Heather Terry – If you sit in a boardroom, you have the responsibility and obligation to visit the farm where the food is produced

30th January 2024 koenvanseijen Diet Change, Regenerative Agriculture, Short Food Webs 0 Comments

A conversation with Heather Terry, CEO and founder of GoodSam Foods, about how an exit from a chocolate company led to a female-led consumer goods company, how education of consumers is key, networks vs. chains, multi-crop buying, and much more.

Every CEO and high-ranking manager working in food companies should be obligated to visit the farms and farmers they source from. So many decisions in the board rooms would be taken differently.

With Heather we dig into a story of a company about how an exit in a chocolate company led to a female led consumer good company focussing on chocolate, coffee, nuts and dried fruits. Preferably sourced from the same farmers paying them 2 to 3 times as much, marketed and sold throughout the US in Whole Foods and online and only being 2 years old. How is that possible? And why, according to Heather, is this the only way forward?

Keith Agoada, the regenerative landscape orchestrator

16th January 2024 koenvanseijen Farmers First Tech, Regenerative Agriculture, Short Food Webs 0 Comments

A conversation with Keith Agoada, CEO and co-founder of Producers Trust, a global network of farmers, farmer groups, and producer groups, about indoor greenhouse growing, aggregation, sorting, quality control, packaging, processing, and more.

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

1st July 2019 koenvanseijen Regenerative Agriculture, Transition finance 4 Comments

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.