New Food Order

How do we re-design financial instruments to have maximum positive impact for people and our planet?

Whether it’s a large multi-national and publicly listed corporation, startup or small business, or a family farmer, every business needs financing at one point or another. But the range of financing tools on the market today were not designed with the complexities of food and agriculture or social and environmental impact in mind. 

In this episode, we speak with some food and ag investing trailblazers who are trying to create financing structures that better suit industry players, that also enable them to de-risk their loans and investments and increase the impact of their capital. 

With our guests in this first “deep-dive” episode on New Food Order, we explore: 

• The challenges with current debt financing, venture capital, and public market models for food and agriculture
• Using data and metrics to de-risk investments and ensure they have maximum positive impact for people and our planet
• The returns investors can expect from ecologically friendly ventures
• The challenges farmers face with the current banking system and how to fund their transition to regenerative agriculture
• Making existing investment models more people and planet friendly
• New models for investing in food and agriculture
• Balancing growth with social and ecological impact
• The rise of ESG investing and the manipulation of its standards
• How VC and Family funds can better identify forward-thinking businesses to invest in
• How one group is creating a whole new asset class focused on the natural world that could potentially revolutionize the financial sector

Our guests include: Mad Capital co-founder Phil Taylor, rePlant Capital MD Robyn O’Brien, New Epoch Capital managing director and chairman of Foodshot Victor Friedberg, co-founder of Supply Change Capital Shayna Harris, Acre Ventures partner Sam Kass, and Intrinsic Exchange Group CEO Douglas Eger.

Links & Resources:

Mad Agriculture: https://madagriculture.org/

rePlant Capital: https://www.replantcapital.com/

Supply Change Capital: https://supplychange.fund/

Acre: https://acre.vc/

Intrinsic Exchange Group: https://www.intrinsicexchange.com/

Grow Well Consulting: https://www.growwellconsulting.com/

New Epoch Capital: https://www.facebook.com/people/New-Epoch-Capital/100064220104144/

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This series is sponsored by Foodshot Global & New Hope Network

New Hope Network

New Hope Network is a media, events and business intelligence company, covering natural products trends, industry insights and marketplace data that educate the industry about key issues, like regenerative agriculture, sustainability, responsible sourcing and more. Visit newhope.com.

FoodShot Global

FoodShot leverages resources from investors around the world to provide non-dilutive, equity, and post-investment capacities to innovators. Find out more at foodshot.org.

And a huge thank you to everyone who helped us bring this podcast to life: 

Production: Cam Gray, Cofruition, Anna de Wolff Evans

Audio Editing: Mercy Barno 

Original Music: Rodrigo Barbera 

Art: Lola Nankin

Project Management: Patrick Carter

Happy New Year from New Food Order!

We are so grateful for this community and each and everyone of you who are joining us on this journey.

Here at New Food Order, we are starting the year by reflecting on the season so far and sharing some of the exciting things we’ve got in store for 2023!

Be sure to tune in next week for the first of our “deep-dive” episodes, and here’s to an abundant New Year for all.

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This series is sponsored by Foodshot Global & New Hope Network

And a huge thank you to everyone who helped us bring this podcast to life: 

Production: Cofruition, Anna de Wolff Evans

Audio Editing: Anna de Wolff Evans

Original Music: Rodrigo Barbera 

Art: Lola Nankin

Project Management: Patrick Carter

Happy Holidays from New Food Order! 

This week we’re bringing you a holiday gift. So many of you have told us that you love our beautiful podcast theme music, so as a special treat we’re sharing the theme song in full with an added bonus interview with our composer, Rodrigo Barberá. 

Rodrigo is a Mexico City-based pianist, musician, and composer, who has been composing music for film, television, and advertising for the past 30 years. We’re so honored to have collaborated with him to create the sound of this podcast.

We hope you enjoy listening to this piece of music as much as we do!

Wishing you and yours a happy and healthy holiday.

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This series is sponsored by Foodshot Global & New Hope Network

And a huge thank you to everyone who helped us bring this podcast to life: 

Production: Cofruition, Anna de Wolff Evans

Audio Editing: Mercy Barno 

Original Music: Rodrigo Barbera 

Art: Lola Nankin

Project Management: Patrick Carter

This week we have a mini episode featuring snippets from a recent conversation we had with Errol Schweizer, former VP of Grocery at Whole Foods, where we asked him what he sees as the top challenges with the business of food and agriculture. Errol shared many challenges with us, but we are sharing the parts of the conversation we had about short termism, corporate oligopolies, and the concentration of ownership. 

Errol has over 25 years of experience in the food industry, from grill cook and stock clerk to V.P. of Grocery at Whole Foods from 2009-2016. He has extensively developed plant-based, organic, non-GMO, and regenerative meat and dairy supply chains and production standards. Supermarket News has recognized Errol with a retail game-changer award and he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Hemp Industries Association. Since 2016, he has been a board member, co-founder and advisor to over two dozen food retail and CPG enterprises. He is active in municipal food policy and healthy food access. Errol is a Forbes contributor and is the host of The Checkout Podcast. 

In this primer episode, we’ll be talking about:

• Oligopolies in the food and agriculture industry
• Short termism and its impact on public and private companies
• Errol’s ideas about common and public ownership of food delivery - with some heated debate between Danielle and Louisa!
• And be sure to stay tuned to the end of the episode for a little bonus! 

Episode Resources:

ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) https://www.esop.org/

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This series is sponsored by Foodshot Global & New Hope Network

New Hope Network

New Hope Network is a media, events and business intelligence company, covering natural products trends, industry insights and marketplace data that educate the industry about key issues, like regenerative agriculture, sustainability, responsible sourcing and more. Visit newhope.com.

FoodShot Global

FoodShot leverages resources from investors around the world to provide non-dilutive, equity, and post-investment capacities to innovators. Find out more at foodshot.org.

New Food Order is brought to you by AgFunder and Food+Tech Connect. Visit agfunder.com and foodtechconnect.com to find out more.

And a huge thank you to everyone who helped us bring this podcast to life: 

Production: Cofruition, Anna de Wolff, Pamela Rothenberg 

Audio Editing: Mercy Barno & Tevin Sudi

Original Music: Rodrigo Barbera 

Art: Lola Nankin & Rekai E. Campbell 

Project Management: Patrick Carter

What would it look like if we completely re-designed the food system, product by product?

In this week’s episode, we speak with Julia Collins, Founder and CEO of Planet FWD, a carbon management platform for consumer companies to bring climate-friendly products to market. 

Through her work with Planet FWD and more than a decade of experience leading food companies, Julia also founded Moonshot Snacks, a cracker brand that she designed from the ground up with the goal of ensuring a carbon neutral supply chain from farm to fork. In our conversation, she offers amazing insights and advice for large and next-generation food companies about how to adopt a regenerative mindset.

We speak to Julia about: 

• How businesses can decarbonize
• Soil health and regenerative agriculture as a climate mitigation strategy
• A regenerative approach to product development, marketing, leadership, and organizational design
• Using data and software tools to understand, reduce and neutralize brands’ carbon footprint and get on a path to net zero emissions. 
• How building a climate-friendly brand can create a deeper relationship with your customers
• What messaging resonates most with eaters around climate-friendly food products

Links & Resources:

• Planet Forward https://www.planetfwd.com/about 
• Moonshot Snacks https://moonshotsnacks.com/ 

Subscribe to our newsletters that track all of the business, tech, and investment trends in food: https://tinyurl.com/nfonewsletters

Follow up on Instagram: @newfoodorderpod

Follow us on Linkedin: @agfunder & @foodtechconnect

This series is sponsored by Foodshot Global & New Hope Network

New Hope Network

New Hope Network is a media, events and business intelligence company, covering natural products trends, industry insights and marketplace data that educate the industry about key issues, like regenerative agriculture, sustainability, responsible sourcing and more. Visit newhope.com.

FoodShot Global

FoodShot leverages resources from investors around the world to provide non-dilutive, equity, and post-investment capacities to innovators. Find out more at foodshot.org.

New Food Order is brought to you by AgFunder and Food+Tech Connect. Visit agfunder.com and foodtechconnect.com to find out more.

And a huge thank you to everyone who helped us bring this podcast to life: 

Production: Cofruition, Anna de Wolff, Pamela Rothenberg 

Audio Editing: Mercy Barno 

Original Music: Rodrigo Barbera 

Art: Lola Nankin & Rekai E. Campbell 

Project Management: Patrick Carter

Carbon markets are emerging as a leading tool for tackling our climate crisis, but are they actually getting to the root of the crisis? 

In this episode, we speak with Tom Goldtooth (Dine’ and Dakota), executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, an organization of Indigenous Peoples building economically sustainable, environmentally just, healthy communities.

Tom is particularly knowledgeable about the growing use of regenerative agriculture to capture carbon in our soils to sell as carbon credits, but has concerns about how it is progressing as a new form of colonization and corporate ownership of lands, and through that, our food supply. So in this conversation, we speak with him about how businesses and communities might approach the climate and social crises.

We discuss:

• Tom’s take on carbon markets
• The commodification of nature and how corporations can decolonize themselves
• Water rights
• Cultivating an indigenous mindset both at an individual level and from a business perspective
• The role of technology in food sovereignty
• What an ‘Indigenous Just Transition’ should look like

Tom has been recognized for his achievements throughout the past 40 years as a change maker within the environmental, economic, energy and climate justice movement and is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2015 Gandhi Award and in 2016 was presented Sierra Club’s highest recognition, the John Muir award.

He co-produced an award-winning documentary film in 1999, Drumbeat for Mother Earth, addressing the effects of the bio-accumulation and biomagnification of toxic chemicals in the natural food web and bodies of Indigenous Peoples.

Links & Resources:

Indigenous Environmental Network: https://www.ienearth.org/

Drumbeat for Mother Earth (film): http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/dfme.html 

Just Transition: https://www.ienearth.org/justtransition/

Vandana Shiva: http://navdanya.org/

Global Alliance on Rights of Nature: https://www.garn.org/

Subscribe to our newsletters that track all of the business, tech, and investment trends in food: https://tinyurl.com/nfonewsletters

Follow us on Instagram: @newfoodorderpod

Follow us on Linkedin: @agfunder & @foodtechconnect

This series is sponsored by Foodshot Global & New Hope Network.

New Hope Network

New Hope Network is a media, events and business intelligence company, covering natural products trends, industry insights and marketplace data that educate the industry about key issues, like regenerative agriculture, sustainability, responsible sourcing and more. Visit newhope.com.

FoodShot Global

FoodShot leverages resources from investors around the world to provide non-dilutive, equity, and post-investment capacities to innovators. Find out more at foodshot.org.

New Food Order is brought to you by AgFunder and Food+Tech Connect. Visit agfunder.com and foodtechconnect.com to find out more.

And a huge thank you to everyone who helped us bring this podcast to life: 

Production: Cofruition, Anna de Wolff, Pamela Rothenberg 

Audio Editing: Mercy Barno 

Original Music: Rodrigo Barbera 

Art: Lola Nankin & Rekai E. Campbell 

Project Management: Patrick Carter

“We're in the beginnings of a total revolution, and I'm excited about it.” This week’s guest is reflecting on the transformation occurring across the food and agriculture industries. Not since the Green Revolution has the industry seen such change.

It hasn’t happened overnight. Over the past decade, entrepreneurs, corporates, activists, investors, and policy makers have been working to transform our food system. But what will it take to actually transform the system to make it way better for all people and our planet? What are the key levers for total transformation? 

Louisa and Danielle speak about the food revolution that’s underway with Sam Kass, former Senior Policy Advisor for Nutrition in the Obama administration, Executive Director of Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! Campaign and the Obama family chef. Today, Sam is a partner at Acre Venture Partners, a venture capital fund investing in the future of food with a mission to improve human and environmental health in the food system.

In this lively and extensive conversation, we cover:

• Sam’s personal journey from chef, to nutrition policy advisor for the Obamas, to Venture Capitalist
• Carbon markets
• The importance of mindset and cultural shift in agriculture
• The Inflation Reduction Act

Nothing in this material is (or should be considered to be financial, investment or other advice on which reliance should be placed. No opinion given in the material constitutes a recommendation by the guest or hosts that any particular investment, security, transaction or investment strategy is suitable for any specific person. Their trading strategies do not guarantee any return and New Food Order shall not be held responsible for any loss that you may incur, either directly or indirectly, arising from any investment based on any information contained herein, or any loss that you may incur, either directly or indirectly, arising from any investment based on any information contained herein. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results.

Links & Resources:

Carbon resources

https://medium.com/@pledge_app/a-beginners-guide-to-navigating-carbon-markets-ec290a6d1bdf

https://carboncredits.com/what-are-carbon-credits-in-agriculture/

https://www.ctvc.co/giving-carbon-credit-where-its-due/

https://www.ctvc.co/the-dirt-on-soil-carbon-sequestration/

https://agfundernews.com/carbon-is-not-a-dirty-word-the-case-for-recarbonizing-our-soils

https://agfundernews.com/the-carbon-question-making-global-carbon-markets-work-for-farmers

https://agfundernews.com/the-pros-and-cons-of-government-involvement-in-carbon-credit-markets

https://agfundernews.com/agri-carbon-market-map-companies-helping-harness-benefits-regen-ag

https://agfundernews.com/carbon-credits-in-ag-dishing-the-dirt

Sam’s firm: https://acre.vc/ 

Startups

https://www.loambio.com/

https://meati.com/

https://inari.com/  

Inflation Reduction Act: https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-and-social-sector/our-insights/the-inflation-reduction-act-heres-whats-in-it (edited)

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Thank you to our partners New Hope Network & FoodShot Global

New Hope Network

New Hope Network is a media, events and business intelligence company, covering natural products trends, industry insights and marketplace data that educate the industry about key issues, like regenerative agriculture, sustainability, responsible sourcing and more. Visit newhope.com.

FoodShot Global

FoodShot leverages resources from investors around the world to provide non-dilutive, equity, and post-investment capacities to innovators. Find out more at foodshot.org.

New Food Order is brought to you by AgFunder and Food+Tech Connect. Visit agfunder.com and foodtechconnect.com to find out more.

From food and agriculture to fashion and economics, 'regenerative’ has become a buzzword over the last few years. But regeneration is not a new concept at all. It is a paradigm and set of agricultural practices that indigenous peoples have practiced for millenia. 

This week, Danielle and Louisa speak about looking to our indigenous past for a regenerative future with Nathalie Kelley, an actress of Quechua descent, most recently starring in the #1 Netflix series The Baker and the Beauty and the Fast & the Furious movie series. With a background in social science and policy, Nathalie strives to tell stories that educate and inspire. She is on the boards of both Kiss The Ground and the Fungí Foundation, using her platform to elevate Indigenous wisdom and technologies as a means of coming back into justice and harmony with our ecosystems. She is in deep devotion and service to the entire web of life, advocating in particular for the health of our soil, water, the fungí and forests. Her mission is the preservation of biodiversity, including cultural and myco-diversity on the planet. 

In this powerful, inspiring, and, at times, heartbreaking conversation, we discuss:

• The human and environmental costs of our climate crisis and industrial agriculture 
• The connection between personal health and planetary health
• Why and what we can learn from indigenous peoples to build a regenerative future and feed the world
• Indigenous and low tech solutions to combating climate change issues
• Nathalie’s regenerative learning journey 
• Tips for starting your own regenerative learning journey
• Practical changes we can make in our everyday lives

Warning: Some of what is shared in this episode may be upsetting or could be triggering, especially for Indigenous listeners.

Links & Resources:

Fungi Foundation: https://www.ffungi.org/

Kiss The Ground (documentary & movement): https://kissthegroundmovie.com/

SEED, the untold story (documentary): https://www.seedthemovie.com/

Ninth Revolution (book by Professor Sayed Azam-Ali): https://sayedazamali.com/?page_id=47

Ernst Gotsch - syntropic farming founder: https://believe.earth/en/ernst-gotsch-the-creator-of-the-real-green-revolution/

Ecosystem Restoration Camps: https://ecosystemrestorationcamps.org/

New Food Order is brought to you by agfunder.com and foodtechconnect.com 

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This series is sponsored by New Hope Network & Foodshot Global.

New Hope Network

New Hope Network is a media, events and business intelligence company, covering natural products trends, industry insights and marketplace data that educate the industry about key issues, like regenerative agriculture, sustainability, responsible sourcing and more. Visit newhope.com.

FoodShot Global

FoodShot leverages resources from investors around the world to provide non-dilutive, equity, and post-investment capacities to innovators. Find out more at foodshot.org.

New Food Order is brought to you by AgFunder and Food+Tech Connect. Visit agfunder.com and foodtechconnect.com to find out more.

Production: Cofruition, Anna de Wolff, Pamela Rothenberg

Audio Editing: Mercy Barno

Original Music: Rodrigo Barbera

Art: Lola Nankin & Rekai E. Campbell

Project Management: Patrick Carter

What does it actually mean to build a people and planet-friendly company?

In this episode, Danielle and Louisa speak to Paul Polman, former CEO of Unilever from 2009 to 2019 and Co-Author of “Net Positive: how courageous companies thrive by giving more than they take.” Paul Polman works to accelerate action by business to achieve the UN Global Goals, which he helped develop. He has been described by the Financial Times as “a stand-out CEO of the past decade”.

In this conversation they discuss:

• What it means to be a net positive business
• Specific steps leaders and companies can take to become more people and planet friendly
• The business case for net positivity

Links & Resources:

• Net Positive: how courageous companies thrive by giving more than they take.
• Race to Zero Campaign
• First Mover Coalition
• International Sustainability Standards Board
• Imagine

Thank you to our partners:

New Hope Network

New Hope Network is a media, events and business intelligence company, covering natural products trends, industry insights and marketplace data that educate the industry about key issues, like regenerative agriculture, sustainability, responsible sourcing and more. Visit newhope.com

FoodShot Global

FoodShot leverages resources from investors around the world to provide non-dilutive, equity, and post-investment capacities to innovators. Find out more at foodshot.org.

New Food Order is brought to you by AgFunder and Food+Tech Connect. Visit agfunder.com and foodtechconnect.com to find out more.

And a huge thank you to everyone who helped us bring this podcast to life:

Production: Cofruition, Anna de Wolff Evans, Pamela Rothenberg

Audio Editing: Mercy Barno

Original Music: Rodrigo Barbera

Art: Lola Nankin & Rekai E. Campbell

Project Management: Patrick Carter

Our current global food system contributes to one-third of greenhouse gas emissions each year. It is a system that has profited hugely at the expense of people and our planet.

As the need to tackle our climate crisis becomes ever more urgent, is it time to ask ourselves whether we need a New World Order for food; a ‘New Food Order’?

In this brand-new podcast series, journalist Louisa Burwood-Taylor and entrepreneur Danielle Gould embark on a journey of discovery, speaking to farmers, entrepreneurs, executives, investors, celebrities, advocates, and more. Through nuanced conversation with diverse voices, New Food Order explores how we might rethink and redesign our food system to have maximum positive impact for people and our planet.

In this first episode, Louisa and Danielle invite us to leave our egos at the door and to step into the conversation with an open mind and an open heart. They introduce us to some of the key ideas and concepts that they’ll be exploring throughout the series and they experience a sharp reality check with the very first question they ask their guests!

Join us on this journey and subscribe now!

About Our Hosts:

Louisa Burwood-Taylor is Head of Media & Research at AgFunder and chief editor of its news site AFN, with 15 years of financial journalism experience. She has covered a range of financial products and markets during her career, from equities and institutional investment in Asia to structured bonds in Europe, before turning her attention to food and agriculture nearly 10 years ago. She’s been responsible for launching two publications: an institutional investment intelligence service for the Financial Times and the first-ever title focused on agriculture investment, Agri Investor.

Danielle Gould is the Founder and CEO of Food+Tech Connect, the first community for food innovation that is best know for their weekly newsletter that tracks all of the business, tech and investment trends from farm to fork. She is also the co-Founder and co-CEO of Alpha Food Labs, a consultancy where she works with some of the world’s largest companies to create products and innovation strategies that are better for people and our planet. Danielle was named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business and one of Fortune and Food & Wine Magazines Most Innovative Women in Food.

Thank you to the guests featured in this episode:

Carol Sanford, Executive Producer at The Regenerative Business Summit

Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin, Co-Founder at Regenerative Agriculture Solutions

Paul Polman, Business leader, campaigner and co-author of ‘Net Positive: how courageous companies thrive by giving more than they take’.

And a huge thank you to everyone who helped us bring this podcast to life:

• Production: Cofruition, Anna de Wolff Evans, Pamela Rothenberg
• Audio Editing: Mercy Barno
• Original Music: Rodrigo Barbera
• Art: Lola Nankin & Rekai E. Campbell
• Project Management: Patrick Carter

About our Partners:

New Hope Network: New Hope Network is a media, events and business intelligence company, covering natural products trends, industry insights and marketplace data that educate the industry about key issues, like regenerative agriculture, sustainability, responsible sourcing and more. Visit newhope.com

FoodShot Global: FoodShot leverages resources from investors around the world to provide non-dilutive, equity, and post-investment capacities to innovators. Find out more at foodshot.org.

New Food Order is brought to you by AgFunder and Food+Tech Connect. Visit agfunder.com and foodtechconnect.com to find out more.