Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food
409 episodes - English - Latest episode: 17 days ago - ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsWe talk to the pioneers in the regenerative food and agriculture space to learn more on how to put our money to work to regenerate soil, people, local communities and ecosystems while making an appropriate and fair return.
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293 Sonja Stuchtey - Have billions flow into regeneration by having accountants agree that it is an investment, not a cost
April 09, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour - 50.8 MBA conversation with Sonja Stuchtey, co-founder of The Landbanking Group, about innovative financial strategies, accountancy standards and rules, reliable sourcing, better quality and lower prices, investing in the value chain and more. Let’s say you are an orange juice or chocolate bar producer: your margins are under pressure because the costs of buying raw ingredients have exploded the last few years. What do you do? In any other business you would likely invest in your supply to secure r...
292 Walking the land with regenerative farmer Matteo Mazzola, Iside Farm
April 02, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBThis is a special episode, the first one ever of the Walking the Land with a Regenerative Farmer, where we walk the land of the farm with a farmer while we talk about regeneration. [On Youtube you can find a video version of this same conversation!] Walking through Iside Farm on the Iseo Lake in Italy, with regenerative farmer Matteo Mazzola, we unlock the secrets of regenerative agriculture as we traverse the innovative landscapes crafted by Matteo, Paola and the Iside crew. We embark on...
291 Adrien Pelletier - Why all farmers or most farmers need to become seed breeders again
March 26, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 42.1 MBA conversation with Adrien Pelletier, farmer, breeder, and baker, about wheat, seeds, no till organic farming, why all farmers or most farmers need to become seed breeders again, and why it is really difficult to bake sourdough with traditional organic wheat seeds that are not breed for high productive farms. Why Adrien want to start changing the world in the most difficult place, at home, which is a large industrial, mostly extractive, commodity wheat-growing region in France? Picture a se...
290 Chris Bloomfield and Daniel Reisman – We need animals outside to feed the planet sustainably
March 22, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 49.8 MBA conversation with Chris Bloomfield and Daniel Reisman, co-founders of Collie, a provider of virtual cow guidance system for managing production in grazing, about enabling regenerative dairy, how virtually fencing and cow guidance drastically reduce labour and boost production. To feed ourselves and the planet sustainably, we need to include animals as part of agriculture. We dive deep into going from vegan to grazing, animal welfare, and the state of our planet. How do we enable more farme...
289 Clint Brauer - After an investment of Chipotle, ready to scale his robots to weed hundreds of thousands of acres
March 19, 2024 16:00 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MBA check-in interview with Clint Brauer, founder and CEO of Greenfield, company powering chemical-free agriculture with advanced AI-powered robots, about his dream to get chemicals and expensive machinery out of broad acre, row crop farming (AKA soy corn farming which currently occupies millions of acres around the world, especially in large industrialised agriculture countries), the ending of the era of the chemical, and much more. After interviewing Clint in September 2020, we check in on ...
288 Alfred Grand – Why an Austrian farmer and researcher trained by earthworms is very excited about AI
March 12, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 47 MBA conversation with Alfred Grand, farmer at Grand Farm, an organic farm with a high proportion of research, about vermicompost and seed inoculation, but also what policymakers should know about farming. Plus, the role of technology in the regenerative transition and why Alfred is so excited about AI and robotics. Have you ever witnessed a complete transformation that strikes at the very heart of our connection to the earth? Alfred's path from bike mechanic to pioneering farmer at Grand Far...
287 Sebastiaan Huisman - Farmers die slowly
March 08, 2024 09:00 - 53 minutes - 36.8 MBA conversation with Sebastiaan Huisman, large-scale organic farmer and advisor, about consulting on many large farm transitions, including the British royal family and working with Wildfarmed. Why is he so optimistic about biodynamic, holistic, and regenerative farming, and why does it all start with children? Picking apples on an biodynamic farm at age 12 led to setting up one of the largest biodynamic farms in Europe, almost 2000 hectares in Poland, on very very poor soil, Sebastian had a...
286 Anthony Myint - Sourcing better isn’t going to change the food system, award-winning chef might have the silver bullet for system change
March 05, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 51 MBA conversation with Anthony Myint, co-founder and executive director of Zero Foodprint. Award winning chef, Myint was disappointed about his impact on acres by his farm to table restaurants and he is now fully committed to systems change. Koen and Anthony talk about how to really move the needle on many more new practice acres which are acres where regenerative practices are used for the first time, opting out mechanisms where a small opt out fee is added to restaurant bills and food product...
285 Paul McMahon - With over $500M invested, the regenerative edge is 1-3%
February 27, 2024 16:00 - 56 minutes - 38.6 MBA conversation with Paul McMahon, co-founder of SLM, about why it makes so much sense to put money to work in real regenerative agriculture, yields, and more importantly, profits and the regenerative edge, and more. Few papers in regenerative agriculture have been shared more than the Investment Case for Ecological Agriculture written by Paul McMahon. We have shared it countless times, learned a whole lot from the simple investment terms describing why it makes so much sense to put money to...
284 Abby Rose - On raising non-extractive funding and the power of AI to help farmers with observation
February 20, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 44.3 MBA conversation with Abby Rose, co-founder of Vidacycle and Farmerama, about the role and potential of AI in observation, alternative investment, the power of transparency, why regenerative viticulture is so interesting, and more. Why did someone who didn’t really need the money and had serious and reasonable questions about the tendency of startups, both in and outside the regenerative space, to keep raising money, ended up raising funding? Not in a traditional, potentially extractive way, ...
283 Brett Hundley - From Tyson Foods equity analyst to financing millions of trees
February 13, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 52.6 MBA conversation with Brett Hundley, President of Agroforestry Partners (AP), a fund that invests in agroforestry projects on farmland with the strategy of providing uncorrelated and attractive nature-based investment opportunities for investors. We talked about moving away from an agricultural system that relies on annuals to a system that relies more on perennial trees. If trees are the answer to whatever the question is, how do we get millions of more trees into the ground? How do we fin...
282 Joachim Ewechu and Hannes Van den Eeckhout - Why Uganda is the best place for a locally owned regenerative agriculture revolution
February 06, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 49.6 MBA conversation with Joachim Ewechu and Hannes Van den Eeckhout, co-founders of Rootical, a start-up studio that enables purpose-driven entrepreneurs in Uganda to build and own their regenerative agri-food companies. We talk about why Uganda is the place to launch and build agroecology, regenerative agriculture, and food companies, why Uganda enjoys political support for agroecology, the importance of different steward ownership models, the importance of different investment models, and more....
281 Emma Chow and Koen van Seijen - Lesson learned from the Regen Mind series
February 02, 2024 09:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBThis is the wrap-up of the Regen Mind series, where Emma shares more about her motivation for this series, her lessons learned, the themes that emerged, and of course, her surprises like like how quickly the conversations evolved from mind/mindset to consciousness. Find out why the mind is like soil and how we can adopt a systems-thinking lens, which is imperative for system change. --------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefi...
280 Heather Terry - Monocrops exists because big companies came along and pushed farmers into it
January 30, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 46.6 MBA conversation with Heather Terry, CEO and founder of GoodSam, 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 e...
280 Heather Terry - If you sit in a boardroom, you have the responsibility and obligation to visit the farm where the food is produced
January 30, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 46.6 MBA conversation with Heather Terry, CEO and founder of GoodSam, 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 e...
279 Martin Reiter - Why regen hasn’t produced a Steve Jobs yet and how to build a modern Nestlé
January 23, 2024 16:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MBA conversation with Martin Reiter, former senior manager at Airbnb and Wayfair, and prior to this at McKinsey and Groupon, about what excites him about regeneration, where are the Steve Jobs and Elon Musk of regeneration going to build their companies, and how can we help more talent flow into the space? Why did Martin, after he grew Wayfair's European Business by 100x over 8 years and led Airbnb's International Expansion, read more than 50 agriculture books and all the papers he could get ...
278 Jessica Hutchings - Connecting soil with the stars
January 19, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 42.2 MBA conversation with Jessica Hutchings, a Maori researcher and apothecary, about indigenous knowledge, letting go of old mindsets, our relationship with nature and the deities of our landscapes. A deep dive in the New Zealand food system, indigenous ways to connect with soil and the food web, sound of plants, vibration of nature and much more. This episode is part of the Regenerative Mind series, supported by our friends at Stray who are exploring systemic investing with awe and wonder as we...
277 Keith Agoada, the regenerative landscape orchestrator
January 16, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 42.8 MBA 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. From indoor greenhouse growing to founding a company, which is now turning into a regenerative landscape orchestrator, and why we are in the perfect storm at the moment. In the last 12 months, or even the last 6 months, we have seen an explosion of int...
276 Calla Rose Ostrander – In our healing is our evolution as a society
January 12, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 44.7 MBEmma Chow and Calla Rose Ostrander explore the regenerative mindset and the importance of integrating human behaviours into natural cycles, recognising abundance and the physical capacity for healing, burnout, the perception of time scarcity, prioritising regenerative activities, and much more. Regenerative mind is about healing. It makes Calla Rose think back to her experience suffering a brain injury, which taught her what it means to heal — her brain was literally regenerating itself. Th...
275 Nicolas Enjalbert - Let’s disrupt the oligopoly seeds industry, currently bad for everyone, people, planet and flavour
January 09, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 53.8 MBA conversation with Nicolas Enjalbert, CEO and Co-Founder of SeedLinked, an innovative company digitizing collaborative breeding and a seed breeder, about our current seed system, flavour and nutrients, collaborative seed research, and much more. Seeds, it all starts with seeds (and soil) but mostly seeds. And our current seeds system is structurally not able to grow seeds that are adaptive to local niches, weather, let alone flavour or nutrients etc., but only able to grow seeds for large ...
274 Thomas Legrand and Luis Camargo - Shifting the narrative to capture food’s positive potential
January 05, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 44.5 MBA conversation with Luis Camargo and Thomas Legrand about the regenerative mindset in food systems, transforming the inner capacities for sustainability and regeneration, personal growth through reconnection with nature, food systems and narratives, and much more. This episode is part of the Regenerative Mind series, supported by our friends at Stray who are exploring systemic investing with awe and wonder as well as our friends at Mustardseed Trust, who are enabling a transition to a care ...
273 Eric Smith - Commoditization is the root cause of all ecological destruction and human health impacts
January 02, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 53.8 MBA conversation with Eric Smith, CEO and co-founder of Edacious, who is building a technology platform for differentiating quality of food. Eric and Koen talk about measuring quality and how to turn around objectively one of the most complex systems ever, from one driven by chemicals to one driven by biology, with abundance as an outcome. The solution, according to Eric, is radical transparency. Get ready for a deep dive into the world of nutrient density with one of the few people building ...
Eric Smith - Commoditization is the root cause of all ecological destruction and human health impacts
January 02, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 53.8 MBA conversation with Eric Smith, CEO and co-founder of Edacious, who is building a technology platform for differentiating quality of food. Eric and Koen talk about measuring quality and how to turn around objectively one of the most complex systems ever, from one driven by chemicals to one driven by biology, with abundance as an outcome. The solution, according to Eric, is radical transparency. Get ready for a deep dive into the world of nutrient density with one of the few people building ...
What we learned in 2023 about cooling the planet, food as medicine, regenerative renaissance, indigenous knowledge and decommodification
December 27, 2023 10:00 - 13 minutes - 9.09 MBAs we are wrapping up 2023 we look back at a year which feels even crazier than 2022. Another war has started and we have been flooded literally with extreme weather events. Every month seems to have been the warmest, driest, wettest etc. in history! Let’s look at what we covered and learned in the podcast: This Changes Everything: Cooling the Planet What if water is more important than carbon? It’s the question posed by Alpha Lo, physicist and writer of the Climate Water Project, about th...
272 Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin - Chickens are the perfect entry point to decolonize our food system
December 22, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 53.7 MBA conversation with Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin, CEO of Tree Range Farms, farmers and producers which a focus on establishing or maintaining a “jungle like” habitat that honours the true natural environment of chickens. When they do this, they not only create a better habitat for the chickens, they create a better world. We talk about using indigenous knowledge to transform the food system, how chickens could and should be raised with a focus on soil health and how to structure business with...
271 Ethan Soloviev - What is regenerative agriculture and why it is the wrong question to ask
December 19, 2023 15:00 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MBWe welcome back on the show Ethan Soloviev, founder of Terra Genesis, now Chief Innovation Officer at HowGood and an advocate for regenerative agriculture. We take a deep dive into the four paradigms of agriculture and how regenerative agriculture is a journey, not a destination. It is not romantic nor naive, it is not anti science nor anti technology. Welcome to a very special episode. This is part of our online education course to accelerate Your Path Forward in Regenerative Food and Agr...
270 Lucio Usobiaga - Agriculture as an act of working with the magic of life
December 15, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 44.9 MBA conversation with Lucio Usobiaga, cofounder of Arca Tierra, about Chinampas, a wetland ecosystem in Mexico City with a rich history of food production and cultural significance, regenerative agriculture and its connection to soul and purpose, chefs and gastronomy in Mexico City, and much more. This episode is part of the Regenerative Mind series, hosted by Emma Chow. Through a series of conversations with farmers, chefs, investors, thought leaders, and social entrepreneurs working to rege...
269 Taimur Malik - From Wall Street through GM cotton to founding Drawdown Farm in the desert of Pakistan
December 12, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBA conversation with Taimur Malik, founder of Drawdown Farm, a regenerative organic, biomimetic, no-till carbon farm in the Thal desert in Pakistan, about how they built one of the largest Johnson and Su compost facilities, plus the largest vermicompost in Pakistan. We talk about inputs, outputs, and why the timing is now for a regenerative transition in Pakistan and beyond! This is a long and rich conversation: how does an ex Citi Bank investor find himself in a Pakistani desert to farm mor...
268 Giles Hutchins - How we can use the achiever mindset as a tool for crafting a regenerative world
December 08, 2023 09:00 - 58 minutes - 40.4 MBA conversation with Giles Hutchins, executive coach, keynote speaker and author of Leading by Nature, about the role of mindset in regenerative food systems, the achiever mentality, reconnecting with nature and achieving a more sustainable business mindset, interconnectedness and the “field” in science and spirituality and more. We kick things off by diving into the crucial shift towards a regenerative mindset, a paradigm shift from the potentially harmful "achiever" mindset. Giles imparts ...
267 Farmers’ Philosophy series! Dayana Andrade, farmer at Amadeco and author of Vida em Sintropia
December 05, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBThis is a conversation between Koen van Seijen, host of the Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food podcast, and Dayana Andrade, researcher, author of Life in Syntropy | Vida em Sintropia and farmer at Amadeco Syntropic Farm. A deep dive into syntropic farming, companion crops opposed to the olive monoculture afflicting the Apulian region, in the South of Italy. Dayana shares her personal journey, explaining how the lessons and practice learned with Ernst Götsch altered her view of l...
266 Laurence Tremblay – How mindset is everything when turning chocolate into a tool for good
December 01, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 50.7 MBA 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. Emma had a chance to meet some of the Cacao Source team when visiting Guatemala in 2022...
265 Josh and Rebecca Tickell - If you like sick people and climate chaos keep investing in chemical agriculture
November 28, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 49.4 MBA conversation with Josh Tickell and Rebecca Harrell Tickell, producers, directors, and writers of the movie Common Ground and previously Kiss the Ground. We talk about their two movies, food choices and their impact on the environment and health, the chemical agriculture model going bankrupt and much more. What do you do after you create the enormous hit Kiss the Ground? More than 10 million people saw the feature-length documentary; 39 million schoolchildren in the US saw the school versi...
264 Sara Balawajder - Building Lukas Walton's impact first food and ag portfolio
November 24, 2023 09:00 - 53 minutes - 36.7 MBA conversation with Sara Balawajder, Vice President of Builders Vision, who leads the impact first food and agriculture portfolio, about the opportunities of regenerative agriculture and food, and specifically nutrient density, and insurance, not health insurance, but farmers' insurance. Lukas Walton, a grandson of Walmart founder Sam Walton, established Builders Vision as an umbrella for his philanthropic, investment and advocacy work in 2021. What does one of lealing impact investing and ...
263 Jan-Gisbert Schultze - How a VC investor got bitten by the regeneration bug and went via Joel Salatin, Gabe Brown and Ernst Gotsch deep into syntropic agroforestry
November 21, 2023 16:00 - 49 minutes - 34.2 MBA conversation with Jan-Gisbert Schultze, a VC investor who turned into a regenerative enthusiast and bought a small olive farm, which he is turning into the first syntropic farm in Salento, in Puglia (Italy), a region battered by monoculture olive trees. After reading The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollen, Jan got bitten by the regeneration bug. He attended courses with Joel Salatin, Gabe Brown and Ernst Goetch where he went deep into syntropic agrofores...
262 Rodger Savory - Restore the water cycles and reverse desertification in California, regenerating 150.000 acres with 600.000 cows
November 17, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 50.6 MBA conversation with Rodger Savory, ecologist, land manager, and ranch owner, about scale and cows, how to kickstart regeneration in desert situations, changing local weather patterns, abundance, soil bacteria, conventional agriculture, WW2 and much more. Many millions of hectares of agricultural land around the world have turned into deserts, and many millions are about to turn into deserts with current agricultural practices. Brittle environments (with a rain and dry season) won’t regenera...
261 Chris Tolles – All the venture capital in the world can’t make soils change faster
November 14, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 48.4 MBA conversation with Chris Tolles, founder of Yard Stick, about soil carbon and the connection to changing agriculture practises, insetting vs offsetting, where in the hype cycle the soil carbon market is and why more companies should get really good at doing one thing instead of saying yes to every opportunity. How difficult is it really to measure in field, instant, accurate and cheaply? Yardstick just raised $12 million, mostly VC climate money, to commercialise their technology. Warning!...
260 Thimm Zwiener - Using chat GPT and the best regen advisors to create a regenerative hotline for all
November 10, 2023 09:00 - 58 minutes - 40.4 MBA conversation with Thimm Zwiener, co-founder of FarmOn, a regenerative hotline for independent farming advice, about how to give everyone of the 600 million farmers in the world access to a trustworthy and regenerative field experience when they have questions, the role of technology, especially the newly hyped large language models like ChatGPT, the risks, and much more. It is safe to say we will never get there with our current approach, having amazing consultants and advisors who are us...
259 Ichsani Wheeler and Lenka Danilovic – How to make water our friend again thanks to hippies with satellites and indigenous water management
November 07, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 52.9 MBA conversation with Ichsani Wheeler and Lenka Danilovic. Ichsani is a scientist, co-founder of OpenGeoHub and EnvirometriX, while Lenka is an hydrologist and intern at OpenGeoHub. In this conversation, we talk about the world of remote sensing, and we unpack what the eyes in the sky can help us learn about indigenous land and water management. How far back can we look at arid landscapes that used to be managed to produce abundance? How did they manage extreme weather events like El Niño, or...
258 Emma Fuller - Making soulless capital who doesn’t care about regenerative agriculture invest in it
November 03, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 51.3 MBA conversation with Emma Fuller, co-founder of Fractal, about the transition to regenerative practices or outcomes of the millions of acres of broad-acre row cropping, corn, soy, and wheat in the US, Brazil, Argentina. Fractal provides farmers with equity financing by investing alongside them in their farmland to fund their growth. We all know the amazing examples that are pushing the boundaries of agriculture: syntropic agroforestry, silvopasture, food forests, complex intercropping, very ...
257 Zach Ben - Breaking down centuries of oppression through indigenous baby food
October 31, 2023 16:00 - 52 minutes - 35.8 MBA conversation with Zach Ben, cofounder, along with his wife Mary, of Bidii Baby Foods, an indigenous baby food line created by farmers and new parents to increase access to traditional foods in early childhood. We talk about the role of farming and stewarding the land in Navajo Nation and the role of nutrition and health with newborns. After centuries of oppression, violence, and genocide, could some healing and regeneration come from a baby food company? We explore that impossible questio...
256 Ivo Degn and Philippe Birker - Does a low interest, 3,5% on $2,5 million loan, really qualify as a regenerative investment?
October 27, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 64.8 MBA 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. How a beer in the summer of 2019 in Mauerpark in Berlin at the then hottest day ever recorded led to the foundation of Climate Farmers, a non-profit and for-profit focused on accelerating ...
255 Edie Mukiibi - From a small farm in Uganda, disillusioned by hybrid seeds and agrochemicals, to leading a global movement for good, clean and fair food
October 24, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 53.1 MBA conversation with Edie Mukiibi, farmer, agronomist, activist, and current president of Slow Food International, about modern input-heavy agrochemical agronomy education, the disillusionment with agrochemicals, hybrid seeds, and much more. A wide-ranging interview that starts on a small farm in Uganda, where Edie was born, grew up, and received a very agrochemical agronomy education, which led to a huge disillusion with agrochemicals and hybrid seeds. The disillusion led Edie to a deep div...
255 Edie Mukiibi - From a small farm in Uganda, disillusioned by hybrid seeds and agrochemicals, to leading Slow Food
October 24, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 53.3 MBA conversation with Edie Mukiibi, farmer, agronomist, activist, and current president of Slow Food International, about modern input-heavy agrochemical agronomy education, the disillusionment with agrochemicals, hybrid seeds, and much more. A wide-ranging interview that starts on a small farm in Uganda, where Edie was born, grew up, and received a very agrochemical agronomy education, which led to a huge disillusion with agrochemicals and hybrid seeds. The disillusion led Edie to a deep div...
254 Charley Cummings - The silver bullet of regeneration is accounting
October 20, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 50 MBA conversation with Charley Cummings, founder and CEO of Walden Mutual Bank, about building a cooperative bank, owned by the customers, and why starting a bank might be the most impactful thing you can do in your regional food system and much more. Why would Charley after founding a successful, local, animal protein, direct to consumer, grass fed and finished businesses decided to start a bank, and not a bank build for an exit no a mutual one basically a cooperative owned by the customers?A...
253 Sam Kass - Get people access to carrots before talking about nutrient density, former Obama's chef and nutrition advisor turned investor says
October 17, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 44.1 MBA conversation with Sam Kass, former White House Chef and Senior Policy Advisor for Nutrition of the Obama's administration and partner at Acre VC. We talk about the potential of VC in the space, the challenges of the real world and why we should focus on getting everyone access to carrots before focusing on the quality and growing practices, why carbon payments is a very interesting and real entry point to scale, and more. How a young chef became the personal chef of the Obama’s, started a...
252 Keoni Lee - Why the islands of Hawaii with 10 million tourists a year are the perfect and challenging place for a regenerative revolution
October 10, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 43.9 MBA conversation with Keoni Lee, CEO of Hawaii Investment Ready, about having to import massive amounts of food, inputs, fuel, etc., being at huge risk from climate disruptions and climate change and much more. Why do we need to take systems change lens into investing? You can’t focus on single solutions and hope that the massive global food and agriculture system will change. Hawaii, with 1,4 million people and 10 million tourists visiting each year, have to import over 90% of its food. Nowh...
251 Tina Owens - Only 1% of nutrition data is tracked on food labels and that means lots of opportunities for companies
October 03, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 43.4 MBA conversation with Tina Owens, regenerative agriculture consultant and part of the Nutrient Density Alliance (for Regenerative Agriculture), about the state of the nutrient density space, the research, why life cycle assessments are broken and a lot more. We are at the telegraph stage of nutrition, and that means lots of opportunities for companies. What does it mean that only 1% of nutrition data is tracked on food labels. Does it mean we should wait until the science is completely clear?...
250 Growing Regenerative Opportunities - Koen van Seijen interviewed by John Kempf
September 29, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBA very special episode: Koen van Seijen, author and host of the Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food podcast, is interviewed by John Kempf, the founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture (AEA) and top expert in biological and regenerative farming. In this conversation, John and Koen discuss: Current investment activity in agriculture The role of capital in regenerative adoption Regenerative practices and topics attractive to investors Regenerating the water cycle at a local ecosyst...
249 Kevin Morse - Flour, flavour and nutrients, how a back to the future mill changes everything for wheat farmers
September 26, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 43.8 MBA conversation with Kevin Morse, cofounder and CEO of Cairnspring Mills, about the fascinating world of grain, wheat and the little secret of flour, building a new Back to the Future mill, and much more. Why regional agriculture processing is crucial for healthy soil, healthy people and healthy local communities. Not hyper local because that is fragile. At Cairnspring Mills, they are now hitting a ceiling and will scale up. --------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumr...
248 Olivier Husson - Photosynthesis is the biggest lever we have in health, climate, draughts, floods, but most plants are too sick to do it properly
September 19, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 47.1 MBA conversation with Olivier Husson, engineer, system agronomist and agroecologist, working on a health approach based around the balance of Eh (electrons) and pH (protons) in soil, plants, microorganisms, animals, etc. Unbalanced Eh-pH conditions lead to poor nutrition and poor photosynthesis. As consequence, plants which lack energy and are being oxidised are attacked by pests and pathogens. Everything starts with plants and optimal photosynthesis, but most plants are too sick to optimally...