Tag: ownership

REGENERATIVE MIND – Emma Chow and Laurence Tremblay – How mindset is everything when turning chocolate into a tool for good

1st December 2023 koenvanseijen Regenerative Agriculture, Regenerative Mind, Short Food Webs 3 Comments

A conversation with Laurence Tremblay, co-founder and business manager of Guatemalan social enterprise, Cacao Source and founder of the nonprofit arm, Give Back to the Source. Emma Chow, the host of the Regenerative Minds series, explores with Laurence the regenerative mindset in the chocolate industry, cacao’s potential for regeneration, cacao farming, culture, and community in Guatemala, and much more.

Wouter Veer – Trying to fix private land ownership, the root cause of all our issues

13th December 2022 koenvanseijen Investor Stories, Ownership, Regenerative Agriculture, Short Food Webs, Transition finance 1 Comment

A conversation with Wouter Veer, entrepreneur, impact investor, founder of Lenteland, about inequality, impact investing, land ownership, unsustainability, Charles Eisenstein, and starting and funding a venture and a movement in the Netherlands.

Sarah Mock, Treat Farms Like Businesses

20th April 2021 koenvanseijen Ecosystem Services Payments, Investor Stories, Ownership, Regenerative Agriculture, Short Food Webs 1 Comment

Forget everything you thought you knew about US Agriculture, the family farm myth and “successful” regenerative farmers, and take a deep dive into why should we treat farming as a business and why indigenous people should run them. An interesting conversation with Sarah Mock, Head of Marketing and Communications at Sylvanaqua Farms, freelance farmer, researcher and author of Farm (and Other F Words).

What we learned in 2020 on nutrition, inequality, ownership, health, agroforestry, profitability, soil

28th December 2020 koenvanseijen Diet Change, Ecosystem Services Payments, Farmers First Tech, Investor Stories, Landscape Design 2.0, Nutrient Dense Food, Nutrients to Soil, Ownership, Regenerative Agriculture, Role of Animals, Short Food Webs, Soil Builders, Transition finance 2 Comments

As the year ends we share what we have learned in 2020 thanks to Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food from over 40 long interviews, many webinars and a complete series on Transition Finance for Farmers.

Soil Builders, updates on green bonds in regen ag and the land ownership in the commons in the US

3rd November 2020 koenvanseijen Soil Builders 0 Comments

Ian McSweeney of the Agrarian Trust and Fabio Sakamoto of Rizoma Agro are the guests of the new episode of the Soil Builders series.

The role of the crowd in the transition finance for farmers

18th August 2020 koenvanseijen Ownership, Regenerative Agriculture, Short Food Webs, Transition finance 0 Comments

As part of the Transition Finance for Farmers series, Benedikt Bösel and Koen van Seijen discuss with Thomas Rippel the role of the crowd in transition finance. They talk about the transition from active farmer to retirement and freeing up land for future generations, as well as investing in regenerative transition.

Armin Steuernagel on how to keep a mission driven company independent and raise capital

19th November 2018 koenvanseijen Investor Stories, Ownership, Regenerative Agriculture 4 Comments

Armin Steuernagel, entrepreneur in food, co-founder of the Purpose Network and impact investor. The Purpose Network helps companies to stay independent and mission driven for the long term.