Koen van Seijen

Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food

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Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food podcast features 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. Hosted by Koen van Seijen.

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Koen van Seijen

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Latest episode

Jul 7, 2026

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Episodes

165 Lauren Tucker, co-founder of Kiss the Ground helps the next generation of regenerative businesses to thrive 19.04.2022

Lauren Tucker, co-founder of Kiss the Ground, is now leading reNourish studio. She joins us to talk about soil carbon, us a keystone species, and the crucial role of regenerative businesses to allow all living and non-living beings to thrive.   --------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag .  Su...

164 Adrian Ferrero on how giving farmers insights into the soil microbial community is key to regenerative agriculture 12.04.2022

Adrian Ferrero is the co-founder of Biome Makers, a global AgTech company providing advanced technology for modeling soil functionality. They are on a mission to enhance the productivity of arable soils and recover soil health worldwide. Through their proprietary soil tech platform, BeCrop, they measure the biological quality of the soil and deliver agronomic insights to optimize farm operations a...

163 Jim Mann - Biochar and enhanced rock weathering to remove 1B ton carbon annually and holistically 08.04.2022

A check in interview with Jim Mann of the Future Forest Company discussing the need to decarbonise our society a soon as possible and still remove about 10 gigaton a year to keep most of the planet liveable. --------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag .  Support our work: Share it Give a 5-sta...

162 Clara Rowe on mapping all restoration projects in the world and provide transparency to the restoration movement 05.04.2022

Clara Rowe is the CEO of Restor, a science-based open data platform to support and connect the global restoration movement. A conversation about technology, transparency, and bioacoustics in our transition to regeneration.  --------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag .  Support our work: Share...

161 Eurof Uppington on decommodifying olive oil, the largest and most fraudulent crop in the Mediterranean 29.03.2022

A conversation with Amfora ’s CEO, Eurof Uppington , about the billion-dollar olive industry, decommodifying olive oil, paying our farmers premium prices, and more. --------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag .  Support our work: Share it Give a 5-star rating Buy us a coffee… or a meal! www. K...

160 Benedikt Bösel, updates from the 3000h German farm in transition 25.03.2022

A check in interview with Benedikt Bösel, German farmer in transition to regenerative agriculture.  --------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag .  Support our work: Share it Give a 5-star rating Buy us a coffee… or a meal! www. Ko-fi.com/regenerativeagriculture --------------------------------...

159 Ichsani Wheeler and Tom Hengl – Open source, satellites and data to know what is happening on our planet 22.03.2022

Ichsani Wheeler and Tom Hengl, two of the greatest scientists behind EnvirometriX and OpenGeoHub , discuss open data and open source solutions and how they will help the world come up with real solutions. They also tackle the crucial role of farmers and data analysis in our transition to a sustainable but profitable regenerative agriculture.  --------------------------------------------------- Joi...

158 Sara Scherr on how to work on landscape scale regeneration on 1000 landscapes for 1 billion people 15.03.2022

After five years Dr Sara Scherr, agricultural and natural resource economist, President, CEO and founder of EcoAgriculture Partners, comes back on the podcast to share about 1000 landscapes for 1 Billion people and much more. 5 years ago in conversation with her, we talked for the first time ever about stranded assets in agriculture.   --------------------------------------------------- Join our G...

157 Dan Miller on the crucial role of locally owned processing in regenerative agriculture 11.03.2022

A check in interview with Dan Miller , founder of Steward , to talk about creating a sustainable, equitable, and profitable system that supports regenerative practices.  --------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag .  Support our work: Share it Give a 5-star rating Buy us a coffee… or a meal! w...

156 Felipe Pasini – Trees bring water so when in doubt plant more trees and complexify 08.03.2022

Felipe Pasini , the co-founder of Life in Syntropy , joins us to discuss the astounding capabilities of systemic tree planting coupled with many other agroforestry systems and the role of syntropic agroforestry in gaining back the forests we once had.  --------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregen...

155 Knut Bentzen on how to scale virtual fencing, the true enabler of regeneration 04.03.2022

A conversation with Knut Benzen, CEO of NoFence, about the enormous potential of managed grazing of ruminants on food quality, protein production, soil carbon, water quality, animal welfare, etc. --------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag .  Support our work: Share it Give a 5-star rating Buy...

154 Kelly Price on why we should focus on nitrogen not carbon and work with banks 01.03.2022

An interview with Kelly Price, CEO and co-founder of Agreed Earth, discussing why we should focus on nitrogen as a gateway for regenerative practises.  --------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag .  Support our work: Share it Give a 5-star rating Buy us a coffee… or a meal! www. Ko-fi.com/rege...

153 Emma Chow and Eliot Beeby on how circular design for food is crucial for regenerating landscapes, and how large food companies can lead it 22.02.2022

Emma Chow and Eliot Beeby of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation Food Initiative recently published The Big Food Redesign, a report that shows how rather than bending nature to produce food, food can be designed for nature to thrive. --------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag .  Support our work:...

Soil Builders, saving harvests with small holders farmers and connecting local farms to city folk in the UK 18.02.2022

In this episode we hear from Wolfgang Mittmann, founder and CEO of Saving Grains how they are helping smallholder farmers save their harvests, fulfil their potential, and make sure that no good food goes to waste. Also Pete Russell shares more about his company,  Ooooby, a social enterprise that connects local farmers to city folk through an organic fruit and veg box subscription service. --------...

152 Paul Lightfoot on how carbon negative foods are taking off and why now 15.02.2022

Paul Lightfoot is the writer of the Negative Foods newsletter, which covers the foods that have carbon neutral or carbon negative footprints, and the technologies, people and companies that bring negative foods to market, food brands that have carbon negative footprints. Paul is the founder of BrightFarms and an investor in the space.  --------------------------------------------------- Join our G...

151 Shaun Paul on building a regenerative business movement that gives 90% of the wealth to local indigenous peoples 08.02.2022

Shaun Paul, Ejido Verde ’s CEO, joins us to discuss the astounding economical and environmental impacts of the pine resin industry not only to local indigenous peoples, but also to the world.  --------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag .  Support our work: Share it Give a 5-star rating Buy us...

150 Stephen Hohenrieder on investing in mature food companies and help them go further and deeper 01.02.2022

Stephen Hohenrieder, founder of Grounded Capital Partners, joins us to discuss a different approach to capital—by treating the symptoms of an unhealthy system rather than incentivizing them.  --------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag .  Support our work: Share it Give a 5-star rating Buy us...

149 Nicolette Hahn Niman - Eating less and better meat is not the solution 25.01.2022

A wide ranging conversation with Nicolette Hahn Niman who has been in the food system for a while, starting as a lawyer working with Robert F Kennedy jr, lobbying against pollution from the meat industry to finally become a rancher and write the book Defending Beef, The Ecological and Nutritional Case for Meat (Chelsea Green Publishing). --------------------------------------------------- Join our...

148 Johannes Quodt on making the first regenerative and biodegradable luxury leather shoe 18.01.2022

Johannes Quodt, CEO and co-founder of Koio Collective, joins us to share how they’re changing the world through their journey towards making direct-to-consumer, high-quality, and biodegradable luxury shoes.  --------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag .  Support our work: Share it Give a 5-sta...

147 Pietro Galgani on paying the true price for food and agriculture products and how to get there 11.01.2022

With Pietro Galgani of Impact Institute we discuss what a world where you pay the true price for a product, including all the environmental and social costs, would look like. --------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag .  Support our work: Share it Give a 5-star rating Buy us a coffee… or a me...

146 Paul Chatterton on working to finance the regeneration of 85m hectares across 16 landscapes 04.01.2022

From Fiji to Slovakia and from Gabon to Scotland. There are very few people on the planet working on financing regeneration at a landscape level. This is a check in interview with Paul Chatterton of the Landscape Finance Lab currently working to finance the regeneration of 85m hectares across 16 landscapes. --------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad community, discover th...

What we learned in 2021 about tech, farmers, scale and love for nature 28.12.2021

Our key lessons from over 40 long interviews and many series in 2021. Thank you all for being part of this journey, thank you to everyone who took time out of their busy days to come online and answer my (sometimes silly) questions and thank you all for listening, commenting, getting in touch and making this podcast much more than an interview show! ------------------------------------------------...

145 Stephanie and Blake Alexandre, regenerative dairy could be medicine 21.12.2021

Stephanie and Blake Alexandre are the owners of the Alexandre Family Farm, the first regenerative dairy in the world. Fourth generation dairy farmers with over 40 years of experience, Blake and Stephanie Alexandre founded Alexandre Family Farm in Crescent City, California in 1988. --------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www...

144 Paul McMahon on building a 250M climate positive portfolio of tree crops in Europe 14.12.2021

A check in interview with Paul McMahon, co-founder of SLM Partners, to discuss their current focus and investment strategies in Australia, USA, and Europe.  --------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag .  Support our work: Share it Give a 5-star rating Buy us a coffee… or a meal! www. Ko-fi.com...

143 Oscar Hovde Berntsen on how a global leader in virtual fencing comes from a tiny Norwegian town 07.12.2021

Oscar Hovde Berntsen , founder and CTO of NoFence, shares the numerous reasons why virtual fencing is big right now in Norway, and soon, all over the world. --------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag .  Support our work: Share it Give a 5-star rating Buy us a coffee… or a meal! www. Ko-fi.com...

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