Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food

Discussion about how to increase the impact investing in regenerative agriculture in New Zealand.If you want to drive meaningful environmental change you are going to need to make it more profitable

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Today I interviewed Geoff Burke, co-founder of Agro-Ecological, a New Zealand based impact investment manager and advisory firm focused on farmland.

We also recorded our conversation as a video with some background slides. Please have a look and let us know what you think! https://youtu.be/0BR3v-_2aO8. 

Things we discussed:

• One of the things holding the agro ecological transition back is the myth that regenerative agriculture is less profitable. And that is wrong especially in New Zealand. You are able to run leaner and have more resilient returns
• Organic is important, independently audited and gives the consumers some comfort and drives the premium. It has been successful for 20/30 years
• We should focus on profit per acre instead of yields of acre 
•  If you only substitute your non organic inputs with organic inputs you are destined to fail 
• You need to completely redesign your management system 
• There is a lot of water quality regulation coming in New Zealand 
• Farmers are asking themselves how to farm and have the social licences from their community to keep farming 
• New Zealand has an amazing climate, on most farms animals can be outside all year round 

Organic Kiwis 

• Why are organic kiwis interesting? Market is booming 
• Kiwis need ‘winter chilling’, in the current kiwi region there isn’t enough winter chilling and producers use a chemical to ‘fake’ the winter, this isn’t allowed in organic production
• It isn’t easy to deploy big quantities of (institutional) investment capital

Organic regenerative dairy 

• Dairy is a major industry but created huge environmental issues, mostly on water quality, run off etc. 
• Regulation is becoming much stricter and forcing the intensive farms to change 
• Geoff is focussed on one water catchment, to improve the water quality 
• In a few years the pasture will be much more diverse, going from 1 or 2 types to 15-20 types 
• You will see a lot more trees on the farms, nuts, for fodder, wood 
• Planting medicinal plants so cows can self medicate 
• Different breed of cows, more robust, resilient 
• Big farms by definition have to focus on the export 

If Geoff could change one thing overnight, it would be increasing dramatically the amount of capital deployed in regenerative agriculture.

Show notes and links:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2018/12/21/geoff-burke. 


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If you want to drive meaningful environmental change you are going to need to make regenerative agriculture more profitable.

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The suit in London and the farmer in Argentina need to start speaking each others language. The first one needs to learn the challenges of farming, the farmer needs to understand the level of reporting and milestones the fund manager needs to raise capital. 

If Chuck could change one thing: he would come up with a KPI to measure soil carbon and the correlation to financial returns. Chuck’s advice for investors: 

1. Meet with regenerative farmers and have meaningful conversations
2. Talk to investors who have been allocating capital to regenerative agriculture for a couple of years
3. Plus learn about the food sector at large and the global challenges

Thoughts from the episode:

• When you demonstrate that the right economic choice is regenerative you will completely transform how money is allocated in agriculture. And there are trillion of dollars invested in agriculture
• If you want to drive meaningful environmental change you are going to need to make it more profitable
• Carbon seems to be the best proxy for the (health of the) rest of the agriculture system- Farmers for the most part are still price takers, even if they grow a crop which is better for the planet for probably healthier for us
• Farmers could come for the regenerative premium and stay for the cost savings- Big buyers could also share in the cost savings
• When retailers and processors are going to see healthy soil means healthy plants, there will be a very clear way to differentiating between a crop that is grown in a healthy soil and one that is not

The links and show notes can be found here:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2018/12/10/chuck-de-liedekerke. 


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Welcome to the Regeneration Newsroom Podcast November 2018A joint venture between Ethan Soloviev’s Regeneration Newsroom and the Investing in Regenerative Agriculture podcast. Where Ethan Soloviev and Koen van Seijen highlight the top articles, books, videos, podcasts and other news on Regenerative Agriculture and Business!"

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Did we miss something? Do you have some news? Send us your thoughts in the comments below! 

This month we discuss:

• Australia Rising 
• Farmer innovation & policy proposals
• New videos from Kiss the Ground & Patagonia
• The state of "regenerative media"
• Regenerative agriculture book ideas for the holidays

Enjoy,
Ethan and Koen

Find the Regeneration Newsroom Podcast of November 2018 here:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2018/11/20/regeneration-newsroom-podcast-ft-ethan-soloviev-november-2018. 

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Who has the real power in your regenerative company? Money? Family? Or Purpose? Did you dare to ask the power question?

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This time interviewed 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. They believe that by innovating the way companies are owned, financed and governed, companies become more successful in the long run and can benefit all of society. Steward-owned companies make a legally binding commitment to their employees and customers: that the company is not a speculative good or commodity but a group of people working for a purpose. 

Main steward owned principles:

• Self governance isn’t tradable, steering wheel is always hold in trust by stewards of the company
• Purpose, the company has a clear purposeHow to achieve the Mission lock?
• Golden Share, veto share etc. 

Thoughts:

• We are working on Alternative buy out capital
• Steward ownership fosters intrinsic motivation
• We are getting into time where it is important for your brand how you are owned
• Normally you invest and you get power, but not in this case
• Closed end fund structures is one of the reasons why we are selling companies again and again and again
• So many impact investors go in and measure and make sure there is an impact, but then they go out and then what?
• Ask the power question: who owns the steering wheel? Can you buy it or can you inherit it? Or do you have another principal, where ability and values decide if you can steer the company

Show notes and links:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2018/11/19/armin-steuernagel. 
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How a peach turned the life of Victor Friedberg around and made him turn into a taste and soil investor.

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This time I interviewed Victor Friedberg co-founder of FoodShot Global (www.foodshot.org) a platform catalysing food system innovation. FoodShot is an ecosystem of world-class, mission aligned venture funds, banks, corporate strategic investors, and foundations that provide equity, debt, non-dilutive capital, and industry resources. Their first focus is on Soil 3.0.

We discussed the following: 

• Flavour is a system, all the focus on genetics etc. went into yield and not into nutrients and flavour. 
• It is hard to imagine any future that has 10b people eating healthy and sustainably of which soil is not part of that future 
• Soil isn’t only the nexus between agriculture and climate change but also between agriculture climate change and nutrition 
• We have a pretty good understanding of what genes are but we don’t know how they express themselves
• Think of soil and a plant as a single organism
• Ten/twenty/thirty years from now we will look more at nutrients per acre
• We need a Global Soil Map with nutrient density
• The brands of the future are the brands who understand their brand is their supply chain- Clean labels are key
• Chemicals have for the most part made farmers not think about systemic things
• We have to find markets for the cover crops, they need to turn into cash crops
• The interesting near term work is being done in changing from a chemical farming system to an organic farming system 
• From a data poor to a data rich farming system, looking at, below ground phenotyping, micro satellites, above ground Lidar

A wish from Victor: How do we make the invisible more visible?

If you are working on anything related to Soil 3.0 or know someone, more information on how to approach FoodShot and the conditions for grants and investments can be found here.

Links and show notes:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2018/11/10/victor-friedberg. 

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Raised 50M dollars and helped regen farmers access over 10.000 acres of farmland.

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This time I’m joined by Kevin Egolf, Chief Financial Officer of Iroquois Valley Farms, a restorative farmland finance company providing land access to organic family farmers, with a focus on the next generation. 

In this interview we talk about democratization of impact investing in regenerative agriculture. Why land security over a long period of time is key to soil health and sustainability (in all aspects) of farms. 

We discussed many things, among them why Iroquois focusses on multi generational farming families and exclusively organic production, although many of the farmers they work with go well beyond organic. They are looking for farmers who want to improve agriculture every single year, to increase soil biodiversity, organic is ‘just’ the first step. 

Some other insights:

• why they are starting to measure the carbon levels in the soil of the land they own
• their journey into the retail investor space and why it has been so long and why they are now almost ready to launch this!

Kevin: 'once they (red. the farmers they work with) get their organic certification then the opportunities just continue to blossom, because of the markets that become available because of their knowledge growing because of getting exposure to other organic farmers and learning new systems. We want all of our farmers to work on incremental improvements. That was the basic principal of organic (red. when the organic movement started)'

Exponential knowledge curve with regen farmers: 'When a farmer makes that commitment to organic it is drinking from the fire hose, there is so much to learn so much to do, the deeper you dive you realise the more you can go into the science and the technical aspects. Some of our farmers diving deep into that stuff. Coming up with systems and rotations that work for their geographies.


Show notes and links:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2018/10/05/kevin-egolf. 

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How do you turn a whole Indian region to zero budget natural farming using Climate Bonds?

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This time I interviewed Satya Tropathi, Assistant Secretary-General and Head of the New York Office of the UN Environment Programme and chair of the board of the Sustainable India Finance Facility, a partnership between the United Nations Environment Programme, World Agroforestry Centre and BNP Paribas.

We discussed the bold and very ambitious project he is working on to raise institutional impact capital to transition a whole Indian region to zero budget natural farming. If they succeed this will have an enormous impact on the local communities, ecosystems and beyond. Many people in the regenerative impact space will be watching the response of institutional investors to such a bond product and what the impact and impact measurements will be, I will be checking in with this project regularly and see how it goes!

Show notes and links:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2018/10/21/satya-tripathi. 

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Can you farm regenerative in soil less high tech green houses? Let's find out.

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This time I interviewed Dirk Aleven, founder of FoodVentures, a company leveraging the knowledge of the high tech green house industry in the Netherlands and bringing it do countries where the middle class is demanding fresh, sustainable vegetables in their local supermarkets. Georgia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Malaysia etc.

We obviously discussed the tensions between soil less and growing in soil, the energy use and CO2 use of green houses etc.

Show notes:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2018/09/21/dirk-aleven. 

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Facilitating the transition of the best regenerative soil to the next regeneration of regen farmers.

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This time I interviewed Ian McSweeney director of the Agrarian Trust. The Agrarian Trust’s mission is to support land access for the next generation of farmers. Supporting all stakeholders, from farmers and community members to activists and investors in this absolutely key process. The Agrarian Trust decided to work with the oldest organic and regenerative farms (with the best soils and ecosystems) of the country and focusses on getting the next generation of farmers on this land. These farms give the new farmers a head starts of a few decades as they are much more resilient to drought, pest infestations etc. are able to do so much more with so much less in terms of labor and time.Instead of focussing on getting new farmers on them on land with poor soil, poor infrastructure etc. 

Some highlights of our conversation:

• Great wealth has been accumulated in this country through extractive industries. We need to collectively realise that the returns and wealth we got used to are based on extractive and exploitation. 
• We need to get used to negative return, we need to return wealth to the soil, the ecosystems and communities we extracted for so long. 
• We need to look at ways to compensate for sequestering carbon in soils. 
• The prices of the leases of the Agrarian trust are directly connected to the soil building of the farmers. 

Thank you Thomas Rippel for the introduction to Ian!

Show notes and links:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2018/08/21/ian-mcsweeney. 
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Entrepreneur turned impact investor with a new found passion for SOIL!

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This time I’m talking to Martijn Blom, senior manager investor relationships at Hivos Impact Investments. the impact investment arm of a large dutch NGO. Their Hivos Food & Lifestyle Fund is focussed at making investments into food companies in southern Africa. We discussed his impact investing journey, the fight agains the maize monocultures in Malawi and Zimbabwe, fancy sustainable Rooibos tea companies and his new found passion for soil!

Show notes and links:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2018/08/23/martijn-blom. 

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In Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food podcast show we 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. Hosted by Koen van Seijen.

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