Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food

Covering over 1.5m acres in less than 18months, Eric is building an organic powerhouse.

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This time I had the great pleasure to interview Eric Jackson, the CEO and founder of Pipeline Foods. After a career in conventional chemical agriculture and software could retire but decided to build the missing piece in organic broad acre row crops (grain and soy).

He was triggered by a fascinating statistic: the US is a grain, corn and soy powerhouse but imports 75% of its organic demand. Why? There isn’t enough organic farmland in the US, so Eric started on a journey which led 18 months ago to the founding of Pipeline Foods, to build the infrastructure needed to get organic grain, corn and soy from the farmer to the food processor. Thus giving the farmers certainty and getting more farmers through the difficult transition process.

Why are they focussing on broad acre crops and not livestock, or produce? Because of the scale that they can bring. Broad acre crops cover many many millions of acres and when you can bring them under organic and hopefully soon organic plus/beyond organic management can really have a huge impact on local/regional climate systems, biodiversity and water quality (which we briefly touched upon in the interview).

Listen to the interview to hear why Regenerative Agriculture isn't a big topic yet for many broad row crop farmers as the market signals aren't strong enough (yet).

Hopefully this changes soon. We also discussed the role of Impact Investors in the transition and the role investment vehicles and funds might play to help more farmers through the organic transition.

An evergreen vehicle or a green bond, helping farmers who want to transition to organic, do so. If you are interested in developing this or now someone who is doing this, please reach out to Eric:)

Pipeline Foods currently works with 1.5M acres in North America 150k acres in Argentina And is projected to do 150m-175m in sales next year.

Show notes and links:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2018/07/18/eric-jackson. 

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A lesson on soil and all its wonders

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This time I interviewed Peter Donovan, who has been active in the space since he met Allan Savory in 1990!

Take-aways from the interview:

• Measurements of carbon is difficult
• Peter: Soil carbon the living the dead and the very dead
• The best kind of measurement is one that is repeated and is looking at agency
• Peter is looking more and more at results not management, as everyone is doing them differently 
• Good questions vs bad questions
• Organic growth and succession of management
• Future of agriculture means more people on the land
• Focus metrics on water because the benefits are local

Show notes and links:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2018/05/21/peter-donovan. 
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Thomas raised over € 1M with a German CSA to buy the land under their farm. Now Thomas is looking at blockchains to help more Farmland Stewardship Organisations do the same.

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Listen to the update interview with Thomas here:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2018/04/21/thomas-rippel. 

Observations from the podcast:

• A lot of speculative cash has moved into agri land
• We have seen a real decoupling of productive value and the farmland price
• Buying land is out of the question for most farmers
• Farmland is mostly bought by financial institutions
• Financial Institutions only look at the highest lease (which is usually the least sustainable farmer as he or she is not paying for all the externalities they produce. 
• Because they mine the soil. 
• 80% of the classmates of Thomas at the biodynamic (4,5 year study) couldn’t find land afterwards 
• Regenerative farmers, who are good stewards of the land, can’t make those cashflows (especially at the beginning) to pay back the loans. This is one of the big drivers of industrial agriculture

Thomas helped Luzernenhof a German CSA farm raise over 1M.-

• They set up their own crowdinvesting platform
• Organised events made a cool video
• Shares in the cooperative which owns the land
•  Buy land and charge very low lease rates to the farmers
• The shares give no dividends. 
• Really unattractive terms

Luzernenhof who has also bought land for 10 others farmers, has noticed that landowners are willing to sell for a fairer price, if they know the land is going to be used sustainably! This is a very interesting point! If regenerative farmers get a lower price for land, if this is true in other areas and countries this could be huge.

Advice for impact investors wanting to get into Regenerative Agriculture:- Look at your local Farmland Stewardship Organisation and get involved- Look into your local CSA farms, they usually rely on bank loans you could refinance them, which would be cheaper for them and you get a return (compared to 0% on the bank)!

Show notes and links:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2018/04/21/thomas-rippel. 

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Using flexible loans to invest over 10M into regenerative food and agriculture companies in Europe.

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I had a conversation with Aymeric Jung and Josep Segarra of Quadia Capital who have been investing in regenerative agriculture and food companies for a few years and put more than 10M to work.

Two barriers for investing in regenerative agriculture according to Aymeric and Josep: 

• You have to understand that food isn’t a basic product, it is about life, it isn’t a smartphone. You need to regenerate it. It takes time! Price and costs aren’t everything. Quality vs quantity 
• Long term view. If you think buying high quality food it is too expensive you can reduce your food costs by reducing animal protein. 

Key is externalities, the more they are integrated the easier it is to compete companies with less or positive externalities (which you invested in).

Advice to starting impact investors in regenerative agriculture:

• Look at emerging countries, fair trade isn’t enough, look at the value chain
• Investing in the good companies in Europe, help them to scale and to educate their consumers 

It is too late for being just sustainable we really need to rebuild the economy regeneratively. It’s a new economy we are building!

Find all links and show notes:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2018/03/24/aymeric-jung-josep-segarra.

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Propagate Ventures, scaling up agroforestry to every farm

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I had a long and very interesting conversation with Ethan, Jeremy and Harry, the co-founders of Propagate ventures. Our conversation ranged from chestnuts to crowdfunding and how to get more impact investors into the agroforestry space. As you will hear, we suffered from a bad internet connection which resulted in a lower sound quality. Sorry for that!

The reason to start Propagate:
For most farmers putting their money in tree-crops for a long term investment was too risky
Why is Propagate working with companies? They can bring purchasing power and with purchase agreements lower the risk of planting trees. Similar how Power Purchase Agreements have changed the solar industry and got large institutional investors onboard.

Example on how Propagate is working with a natural cosmetic company and their purchasing influence: Pre purchase agreements are key to allow to create some certainty for the farmers to put trees in the ground long term.

So what about retail investors? Propagate is very interested in retail investors but feels it is too early to start catering to them, despite the huge interest from consumers to invest.

Why are they so interested in them? “like corn which grow on a tree!”

Show notes and links:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2018/05/21/jeremy-kaufman-harry-greene-ethan-steinberg. 

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The CEO of Cienega Capital, Esther Park on investing in Regenerative Agriculture.

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This time I had the great pleasure to interview Esther Park, the CEO of Cienega, the investment company of Sallie Calhoun who I interviewed last year (where we discussed among other things, the new vineyard they are building, where most of the management is done by sheep)

Advice for impact investors wanting to get started in the space:

Start with some education, Great place to start: the Soil Health Primer 
Do something, just do 1 thing, make 1 grant, or loan or investment 

To find your first investment you need to build a local community, to get to know the people in your community who are interested in ecological farming. Maybe start at your farmers market, who is producing what, who is building soil?

Esther would like to focus this year more on getting Farmers off color into the conversation as over 90% of farmers are white. And we need more people not fewer people on the land!

Cienaga has about:

• 20M dollars outstanding in the NoRegrets initiative
• 28 investment outstanding
• of which 2 are not performing

www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2018/05/21/esther-park. 

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How to take the plunge when wanting to invest in regenerative agriculture.

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This time I interviewed Rufo Quintavalle, impact investor and poet. He shared his journey into investing in regenerative agriculture and gave a lot of tips on how to start investing in regenerative agriculture and take the plunge!

Instead of Silicon Valleys “Move fast and break things, we need move slowly and build things”

Tips of Rufo: 

• Don’t be too hasty but don’t be too slow either, set aside a bit of money you can afford to potentially lose and put it to work.  
• Get yourself educated and learn, but don’t waste the time of entrepreneurs and fund managers, don’t set up endless calls if you have no interest in investing. 
• Think about where in the value chain you want to invest, the land itself, the processing. Think about the geographies. 
• Think about water, many places have inadequate water supply, so make sure you take that risk into account.

Alternative proteins: Rufo is extremely interested in fruits and vegetables with high protein content as replacements for animal protein. There are 4000 thousands fruits in the Amazon, and we don’t know what half of them do. And he is a bit worried about some high tech meat replacements. Clean meat. Because if the IP ends up being owned by a few wealthy people, we maybe create more negative social consequences than we create positive one.

Show notes and links:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2018/01/31/rufo-quintavalle. 

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The biggest threat to sustainability is anonymity.

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At the office of Eosta I interviewed Volkert Engelsman. CEO of Eosta, international distributor of fresh organic and fair fruits and vegetables. 

Volkert's views:

• "The biggest threat to sustainability is anonymity"
• "If I don’t know you I can exploit you"
• "Trade in our case is not about buying low and selling high, it is responsibly running a supply chain"
• "Marketing sustainability automatically leads to monetising sustainability"

He prefers to talk only about profit but we have to factor in the costs of people and planet. So Eosta started measuring the 20% of the kpis which make up 80% of the impact to find the true cost of organic.

Organic apples are for instance 19 euro cents healthier per kilo compared to conventional apples. Only looking at the pesticide differences. By taking data from the EFSA European food safety agency on pesticide residue, and fed that data to the models of DALI disability life year calculation of the WHO. "Organic is not too expensive, conventional (chemical) is too cheap"

To raise awareness for the proactive healthcare of food. Eosta will be looking at the health benefits of organic food with a campaign called: doctor Goodfood. Where to start investing in a food system for the future in quite simple according to Volkert:

Show notes and links:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2018/02/01/volkert-engelsman. 


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The head of constructive capital at Dr Bronner's explains why they are investing in regenerative agriculture

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Today I’m joined by Les Szabo, director of constructive capital at Dr Bronner’s. The top-selling brand of natural soap in North America. We discussed what a soap company is doing investing in the regenerative agriculture space. How they found themselves bringing together unlikely allies like vegans and regenerative ranchers. To target a common enemy: factory farming.

Les shared how they got started (and how you can do the same), their work around regenerative animal feed and a fund they are starting together with Patagonia, which will be open for outside investors. Too much to cover in a summary, I hope you enjoy listening to the full story!

For show notes and all links:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2018/01/16/les-szabo. 

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How the regenerative agriculture revolution starts by connecting small holder farmers in rural India with customers in the city.

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Today I’m talking to Shameek Chakravarty cofounder of Farmizen based in Bangalore India, on Farmizen everyone can rent mini-plots of farmland close to the city. You choose your vegetables and farmers then grow them organically for you and you can keep track of the harvest using the app. Basically it is a real life, organic, version of Farmville. 

We discussed the lives of Indian farmers and what challenges they face every day and how Farmizen is trying to fix those challenges. 

Key points:

• remove short term incentives for the farmers and they will take care of the land (farmers working with Farmizen receive 4/5 times as much and it is predictable)
• historically India had a very interesting natural farming practises, like Zero budget natural farming which Farmizen is bringing back with modern technology
• when you reconnect consumers with farmers and the land, trust will build 

Tips from Shameek for investors who want to start investing in the Regenerative Agriculture space:

• have a much longer investment horizon
• both India and China are very interesting markets to look at from a regenerative agriculture point of view. Their soil quality has been deteriorated significantly

For show notes and all links:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2018/01/21/shameek-chakravarty. 

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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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