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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103 Dan Kittredge, our biggest lever against climate change is paying for food quality 02.02.2021 44:34

Why are we not paying farmers for quality? A long overdue interview with Dan Kittredge of the Bionutrient Food Association on their work of measuring of nutrients the connection to quality and taste. ----------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag . Other ways to support our work: - Share the po...

102 Walter Jehne, stop talking about carbon emissions and focus on restoring the water cycle 26.01.2021 48:55

An episode about the impact of regeneration on cooling the climate with Walter Jehne, forester and agricultural scientist specialising in soil microbial ecology of plant diseases, nutrition, and land regeneration. ----------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag . Other ways to support our work:...

101 Cathryn Couch served 1m medically tailored meals to low income people with health challenges 19.01.2021 40:41

Food is medicine but could also be poison says Cathryn Couch, founder and CEO for Ceres Community Project, who has served over 1m organic medically tailored meals to low income people struggling because of a health challenge. ----------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag . Other ways to suppo...

Soil Builders, 40M for carbon farming in AU and transitioning a 1000a farm using regenerative approaches 12.01.2021 34:49

A check in interview with Lachy Ritchie, co founder of Agtalent and Carbon Farming Foundation who is getting ready to invest 40M in carbon farming. Plus Tyler and Tim Nuss of The Modern Acre, who are transitioning their 1000 acres row crop vegetable farm using regenerative approaches. ----------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits...

100 Gina Pattisson on how to raise more than half a million euros during a pandemic 05.01.2021 51:20

How can one raise capital during a global pandemic? The special guest of the 100th episode of the podcast is Gina Pattisson, founding team member of Soil Heroes. Make nature everyone’s business and get farmers paid for the ecosystem services they provide the world are the goals of Soil Heroes. ----------------------------------------------------- Welcome to Investing in Regenerative Agriculture a...

6 things we accomplished in 2020 30.12.2020 4:12

As the year ends we would like to share with you our main accomplishments and discoveries of this 2020! ----------------------------------------------------- Welcome to Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food. Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits here: www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag . Other ways to support our work: - Share the podcast - Give a 5-star rating - Or...

What we learned in 2020 on nutrition, inequality, ownership, health, agroforestry, profitability, soil 28.12.2020 9:42

Our key lessons from over 40 long interviews, many webinars and a complete series on Transition Finance for Farmers done in 2020. ----------------------------------------------------- Welcome to Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food. Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits here: www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag . Other ways to support our work: - Share the podcast -...

99 Sam Schiller on why 100 dollars per tonne of CO2e stored is key to kick start regen ag and how to get there 15.12.2020 51:01

Soil carbon models greatly underestimate the potential of regenerative agriculture. We discussed about it with Sam Schiller, founder and CEO of Carbon Yield. ----------------------------------------------------- Welcome to Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food. Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits here: www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag . Other ways to support our...

98 Frank Wooten on how virtual fencing unlocks the potential of carbon positive grazing at scale 08.12.2020 51:28

An episode with Frank Wooten, CEO and founder of Vence, a reinvented livestock production that centers in virtual fencing and autonomous animal control. Vence’s mission is to lower the price and to increase the availability of sustainable animal protein around the world. ----------------------------------------------------- Welcome to Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food. Join our Gumroa...

Soil Builders, using a bond to scale regenerative approaches in West Africa 01.12.2020 20:20

An interview with Emiliano Mroue, co founder of the WARC group, on how they are applying regenerative approaches with smallholder farmers in Ghana and Sierra Leone. And how they are raising capital through the innovative New African Farmers Bond to scale their work. ----------------------------------------------------- Welcome to Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food. Join our Gumroad co...

97 Ethan Soloviev, enormous lack of regenerative ingredients for food companies and what to do about it 24.11.2020 44:53

This is a check in interview with Ethan Soloviev, chief innovation officer of HowGood, a good friend of the podcast and one of the leaders in the regenerative food and agriculture space, where we talk about the regen hype. Where are we? ----------------------------------------------------- Welcome to Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food. Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers an...

96 Pierre Weill on selling 2b euro a year of animal protein as anti inflammatory food 17.11.2020 57:29

A deep dive into nutrient density on how Pierre Weill, co-founder of the non-profit organization Bleu-Blanc-Coeur , created a 2b euro a year certification program, paying farmers more for better quality food. ----------------------------------------------------- Welcome to Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food. Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits here: www.gumroad....

95 Greg Shewmaker, what is in our food? Why we can’t answer this fundamental question 10.11.2020 46:44

We still can’t answer food’s most basic question: what is in it. Unless we can measure nutrient density on the farm, regen ag will never deliver its promise. These are some of the questions we tackle in this check in interview with Greg Shewmaker co-founder of Teak Origin. Last time we talked about that most food you buy in the supermarket has hardly any nutrients in it. --------------------------...

Soil Builders, updates on green bonds in regen ag and the land ownership in the commons in the US 03.11.2020 26:49

Ian McSweeney of the Agrarian Trust and Fabio Sakamoto of Rizoma Agro are the guests of the new episode of the Soil Builders series. In the series we welcome back previous friends of the podcast to understand their progress and we discover new companies, startups, farmers, investors engaged in building soil all over the world. ----------------------------------------------------- Welcome to Invest...

94 Robin Saluoks and Kristjan Luha, building the biggest farmers union in the world, already covering 1m hectares on 1500 farmers 27.10.2020 51:40

How do we get thousands of farmers and millions of hectares to transition towards applying more regenerative practises? This is the primary question answered today by Robin Saluoks and Kristjan Luha , co- founders of eAgronom. eAgronom is a platform that enables farmers to manage and oversee their entire farm, employees, and fields. It was built by farmers for farmers. Its primary aim is to help f...

Ask Me Anything Webinar Recording - October 13th 20.10.2020 57:46

The forth Ask Me Anything webinar was an opportunity for the Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food community to come together and ask Koen van Seijen and everyone else on the call their burning questions regarding building a regenerative food system and the video course we launched in last months ( https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/video-course/ ). Find the topics discussed a...

93 Zach Bush, why all health issues come back to how we treat the soil 12.10.2020 1:07:01

How did a medical doctor end up going deep, very deep on soil, and discovering that almost all health issues can be traced back to how we treat our soils? Learn about the role of glyphosate and other chemicals and why after seeing all this doom and gloom, he actually has a lot of hope for the human species. ----------------------------------------------------- Welcome to Investing in Regenerative...

Audio QA Webinar Abby Rose, role of agtech in regen ag 06.10.2020 55:47

This is the audio of the QA webinar with Abby Rose, regen farmer, agtech founder and co-host of Farmerama. ---------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food. Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits here: www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag . Other ways to support our work: - Share the podcast - Give a 5-star rati...

92 Chris Newman, busting the single family farm myth and why indigenous collectives are the way to go 29.09.2020 54:40

An episode that goes deep into the issues of single family farms and the potential of collectives to manage whole landscapes way more effectively to produce more food and wealth. Chris Newman, founder of Sylvanaqua Farms, joins us for another riveting conversation about regenerative agriculture. ----------------------------------------------------- Welcome to Investing in Regenerative Agriculture...

Soil Builders, checking in with Zach Weiss on water cycles and a biodynamic baby food startup 22.09.2020 33:53

Zach Weiss and Keith Rowe are the first guests of the new Soil Builders series. In the series we welcome back previous friends of the podcast to understand their progress and we discover new companies, startups, farmers, investors engaged in building soil all over the world. ----------------------------------------------------- Welcome to Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food. Join our Gu...

91 Clint Brauer, why robotics are key to scale regen ag without chemicals 15.09.2020 44:16

Clint Brauer of Greenfield Robotics talks about the key role robotics are going to play in the next 20 years on scaling regenerative agriculture across millions of acres. ----------------------------------------------------- Welcome to Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food. Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits here: www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag . Other ways to...

Final episode Transition Finance for Farmers with Benedikt 01.09.2020 45:14

The final episode of the special series dedicated to Transition Finance for Farmers in regenerative agriculture and food with the co-hosts Koen van Seijen and Benedikt Bösel. In this series Koen is joined by Benedikt Bösel, owner of the Gut&Bösel farm ( www.gutundboesel.org ) and former Venture Capitalist with a focus on environmental technologies and AgTech startups. Discover their journey to...

90 Ed Byrne, if regen food doesn't taste amazing and doesn’t make money it won't go anywhere 25.08.2020 33:03

A conversation about scale and business and the key role of decentralised processing in regenerative agriculture with Ed Byrne, co-founder of Soil Works. He has launched an investment firm first investing its own money into accelerating regenerative farming. ----------------------------------------------------- Welcome to Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food. Join our Gumroad community,...

Transition Finance for Farmers with Benedikt - Thomas Kliemt-Rippel, Kulturland Genossenschaft 18.08.2020 1:09:40

Thomas Kliemt-Rippel of Kulturland Genossenschaft is the seventh guest of the Transition Finance for Farmers with Benedikt Series. This episode is about the role of the crowd in transition finance. ---------------------------------------------------------- Koen van Seijen and Benedikt Bösel are the co-hosts of this special series dedicated to Transition Finance in regenerative agriculture and food...

89 Jeroen Klompe on building a fair farmers first marketplace 11.08.2020 54:27

An interview with Jeroen Klompe, co-founder of Klompe Landbouw and Soil Heroes, on why everything starts with biodiversity above and below ground. ----------------------------------------------------- Welcome to Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food. Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits here: www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag . Other ways to support our work: - Sha...