Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food

By Koen van SeijenBusiness Health & Fitness Nutrition Arts Investing Food

Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food episodes

January 10, 201824 David R Montgomery, ditching the plow, covering the soil and diversifying crop rotations
Writer of Dirt and Growing a Revolution.

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I interviewed David R Montgomery, writer of the book Growing a Revolution where he travelled around the world visiting farmers who are growing high quality produce, profitably while growing soil carbon. All of them shared the same approach to working with the soil: ditching the plow, covering the soil and diversifying crop rotations. Meeting these farmers turned him from a pessimist into a cautious optimist.

Plus we touched upon a very interesting topic which I hope to discuss further in future interviews (and which will be the topic of a new book of David and his wife Anna). How do we grow more nutrient rich calories instead of just calories? Micro nutrient contents of food has dropped 25-50% over the past decades.Healthy food starts with healthy soil?!

Some tips for impact investors:
Look at financing the transition, how can you partner with farmers who don’t have the financial resources, make the transition to regenerative agriculture?
Look into turning around degraded land and turn it into a net asset.

Show notes and links:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2018/02/17/david-r-montgomery.

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December 01, 201723 Osvaldo de Falco, connecting Italian organic fruit farmers directly to consumers
How do we pay a fair price to our farmers? If not they can't take care of our land.

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I interviewed Osvaldo de Falco, co-founder of Biorfarm.

A platform which connects Italian organic fruit farmers directly to the end customers, while paying the farmers a fair price (usually 2 or 3 times as much compared to the traditional distribution channels).

This is key in Regenerative Agriculture because if we don't pay our farmers a fair price they can't take care of and improve the land. Osvaldo experienced this problem first hand as his farther got 0,20/0,25 cents for his organic oranges, which were sold 'fresh' in an organic supermarket in Milan for 3,5 euro. Biorfarm pays 0,90 cents to their orange farmers.www.biorfarm.com is now getting ready to scale and will try to raise crowdfunding in the next months.

Some key take aways from the conversation:
The farmer is happy (with a platform like Biorfarm) because (s)he gets respect as a farmers.
The land is the past the present and the future of the farmer, but we don't give them space to improve it.
Most farmers want to leave the land in a better shape (better soil health) to their children. Being stuck in the current value they simply can't.
Fresh is a supermarket could mean anything.

Show notes and links:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2017/12/08/osvaldo-de-falco.

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November 24, 201722 Ethan Soloviev: As demand for regenerative agriculture skyrockets, is there enough supply?
Expert on Regenerative Agriculture. Diving deep on demand!

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I was joined by Ethan Soloviev, Ethan is an international expert on regenerative agriculture, a farmer, writer, and the Vice President of Research at HowGood, Inc.Some thoughts from the show:

Can the supply of regenerative agriculture products meet the rapidly growing demand
Why leverage points don't work... and what can.
How to create chimeras for regenerative agriculture investing.
We discover why Ethan loves personal care and cosmetics so much (Hint: it has nothing to do with his skin but with margins).
Most farms who will reach regenerative status will do so through perennial tree crop systems.
Prime investment opportunity: Perennial crops & agroforestry edges of climate disruption. Increased human migration produces huge challenges, and opportunities for right livelihood.
How to tell which companies to invest in (Hint: it has to do with who is actually measuring carbon).

Show notes and links:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2017/11/28/ethan-soloviev.

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47 min
October 22, 201721 Renee Cheung, how to get institutional investors investing in regenerative agriculture
Founder of Bonterra Partners, a specialist working with investors to invest in regenerative agriculture.

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This time I interviewed Renee Cheung, founder of Bonterra Partners, a natural capital investment specialist. Renee works with investors to identify and invest in sustainable, profit-generating environmental and real asset strategies.

We discussed what have been the developments in regenerative agriculture in the last years:
holistic grazing
cover-crops
no-till systems

Progressive smaller HNIs are taking interest in regenerative agri holistic grazing management, key line farming, mixed cropping etc.

The main challenges:
gap between the funds and the soil/ground
the need for more good risk/return deals
longer timeframe for most conservation practises to generate good returns

Investment proposals have to be boring for large institutional investor investment committees to approve them. It is much easier to explain a large monoculture GMO corn/soy rotation or invest in feedlot cattle than a regenerative agriculture opportunity. Nature and regenerative agriculture are more complex thus more difficult to explain and get funded.

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www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2017/10/28/renee-cheung.

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October 03, 201720 Geert van der Veer, helping to start 1000 locally owned regenerative farms in Europe
Co-founder of Herenboeren, a community owned regenerative farm in the Netherlands.

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This time I interviewed Geert van der Veer, co-founder of Herenboeren.

Who bought a farm with 150 families (now growing to 200 families) and hired a farmer to farm the land in the most productive and regenerative way possible. Producing about 60% of the daily food for the families at prices lower than a supermarket. Now Geert is working to help other local communities to do the same, and in doing so helping start 1000 locally owned regenerative farms all over Europe.

Local Energy: They always start with local energy, if you want a local Herenboeren farm near you, you need to put in part of the work to gather the local community. Herenboeren will help you with the set up, finding/buying the land, finding the farmer and help run it. But they can’t bring the local energy together to form the strong local community needed to support a thriving Herenboeren farm.

Challenges: It proofs really difficult to find farmers who can farm regeneratively at scale:“ We have one challenge because our farmers are always specialised in producing one product, and on our farm they have to do about everything that exists in that way”

We also talked about the role of impact investors in this local revolution.

Geert sees two options:
helping local communities acquire land for a Herenboeren farm
helping Herenboeren (a service organisation which services the Herenboeren in their day to day operation) scale up

Show notes and links:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2017/10/20/geert-van-der-veer.

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September 24, 201719 Craig Wichner, showing with a 150M fund that regen ag is more profitable than chemical ag
Raised one of the first regenerative agriculture impact investing funds, now managing over 17000 acres and executing complex ten year rotations. Including cattle, organic grains and organic vegetables.

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I interviewed Craig Wichner co-founder of FarmlandLP one of the first impact investment funds focussed on Regenerative Agriculture.

We discussed many things! From soil carbon to drones and from deep roots to how we can show that regenerative agriculture is more profitable than conventional chemical based agriculture.

Some key takeaways:
“How do you shift from a chemical based agriculture to a biological based agriculture?”
“Showing organic farmland is more profitable than conventional agriculture!”
Farmland“Organic farmland we have managed generates 72% more revenue per acre.” “53% of US farmland growing 2 commodity crops, corn and soy.”
“At least 4-6 times more revenue per acre growing sweet corn than commodity corn”

The big shift comes from average farmer understand that sustainable agri is more profitable than chemical farming. Really looking at the land, what work best on this land in a sustainable way?
“What is the best way to maximise biological productivity and economic value?”

Future developments:
They just completed a permanent crop suitability study for some of the land. Looking at the mix of perennial systems plus open ground. Next year they will be getting more technology on the farm, aerial imagery with drones.

Consumers:
“Milk is the gateway drug to organic products” as first time mothers start asking questions about the milk they give to their newborns. Organic standards aren’t the holy grail, there are some issues with it.

Show notes and links
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2017/09/27/craig-wichner.

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49 min
September 09, 201718 Liz Carlisle, how lentils changed a region and started an organic company 30 years ago
A group of farmers started one of the first organic companies in the US, 30 years ago on Montana.

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This time I had the great pleasure to interview Liz Carlisle, writer of the Lentil Underground, the amazing story about how five farmers created one of the first organic companies in the US.

We discussed how and why she went from country singer to writer! While singing for farmers she kept hearing the issues of farmers. Many farmers in the US work just as hard as before but can’t earn enough anymore to put food on the table. Which is ironic because they are supposed to be growing it. Liz came across this story of 5 farmers in Montana who set up Timeless Food, to market organic lentils (which they were using in their organic grain rotations). But no one was eating lentils or legumes at the time, let alone organic ones.

A few things which surprised Liz while writing the book:
Many farmers have a global view
Farmers are incredible scientists
They operate on very complex 10 year rotations between grains, livestock, legumes etc.
It takes a long time to build a solid foundation for a values based company, but when that is done you can grow faster.

We discussed why Timeless Seeds started 30 years ago:
There was a cycle of crisis in the commodity agriculture business
Input costs were so high to force people to look for ways to reduce inputs (they started using legume cover crops to insert nitrogen into the soil)
Grain prices were so low, people were looking for outside the commodity system.This provided the perfect storm for a new company focussed on selling the cover crop and some extra income to the farmers.

Liz's advice for impact investors who want to get into the regenerative agriculture space: Place based, really getting to know the local place! Regenerative agriculture is all about fitting the agricultural system to the place rather than having this one standard one opposed all over the world. Get to know the place/ecosystem really well and find the missing piece of the puzzle for a regenerative agriculture system. As an impact investor you can help to accelerate that transition which needs to come by creating those markets.

Show notes and links: www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2017/09/10/liz-carlisle.

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September 01, 201717 Michele Manelli, regenerating Italy's wine industry
What is sustainability in wine and where do you start?

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Recently I interviewed Michele Manelli, of Salcheto wine Montepulciano Italy.

We discussed what it means to be a sustainable wine pioneer in Italy and where to start if you start from scratch. Also Michele shared how he influencing other wine companies in Italy and not 'just' his 50 hectares in Tuscany. The wine industry has to reinvent itself and sustainability should be at its core.

Michele:
'More and more people are ready to put their sustainable values beside their other values (quality and price, service)'
'Biggest problem is: transparency of the sustainability certifications'
'Very fragmented distribution channels, distribution partners are not investing in it or pushing it (sustainability). '
'Less standards more solid standards'

Michele and his colleagues have set up a new solid sustainability standard in Italy to move the whole industry (and not just some niches) to sustainability.

The next phase for Salcheto lies not on environmental sustainability but on social.
They introduced the first Welfare plan for vineyard employees in Italy.
They are hosting children of local schools at the vineyard and turning them into sustainability ambassadors.

Show notes and links:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2017/09/06/michele-manelli.

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43 min
August 10, 201716 Rhamis Kent, are you an investor or a gambler?
The role of investors in this agricultural and societal revolution.

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Recently I interviewed Rhamis Kent and we discuss the role of investors in scaling up the regenerative agriculture business. But also what is an investor? What makes him or her different from a gambler or speculator??

Rhamis: We need more people to think, 'I’m safe as you are safe, I’m in danger if you are in danger'

On scaling up the regenerative agriculture sector:
'Success breeds success, we need bigger and better projects to show to people that this works'

Show notes and links:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2017/08/21/rhamis-kent.

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50 min
July 18, 201715 Jesse Solomon, rebuilding the chicken industry from the ground/soil up
Selling heritage chickens from farmers using holistic management.

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This time I had the pleasure to interview Jesse Solomon, CEO and founder of who are reinventing the chicken industry from the ground up (literally). By focusing on raising slow-growing chickens entirely on pasture, with practices that create healthy soil and regenerate the land.

We luckily had time to discuss many things in the interview! How Jesse went from eating meat, to being a vegetarian (after reading the book Eating animals by Jonathan Safran Foer. To hunting his own meat and cook it for his family and friends and finally setting up an heritage chicken company.

Some more points we discussed:
Our current food industry is really good ad getting a lot of bad food to as many people as possible for the lowest price.
Organic was really good to teach people to look at labels, and now we need to teach them beyond the labels
You need them (the chickens) to be warriors in this system and agents of that healthy change
Half of what we do is rebuild the supply chain the other half is education

Largest challenge for impact investors to get into the regenerative livestock space:
their time horizon and return profile!

We discussed transparency and how Emmer & Co pioneers with showing the whole process, for instance through their Chicken experience.

A question for you: who knows any models (selling different parts/crops of a regenerative agriculture farms) in the rest of the world, Europe etc.?

Show notes and links:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2017/07/21/jesse-solomon.

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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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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,…