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Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food

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.

413 Anastasia Volkova - Building the world's largest MRV provider

52 mins; March 31, 2026

412 Emmanuel Luwemba – Disrupting the seed monopolies in East Africa

57 mins; March 27, 2026

411 Pierluigi Scordari - Skin care: the profitable Trojan horse for regen ag

65 hours 16 mins; March 24, 2026

410 Paul Hawken – Carbon is life, not the enemy

71 hours 16 mins; March 17, 2026

409 Olusola Sowemimo - How a Nigerian lawyer built a profitable organic farm with standards, data and community

79 hours 13 mins; March 13, 2026

408 Ivan Mandela - Unicorns can wait, African farmers can't

59 mins; March 10, 2026

407 Tania Rodriguez Riestra - Systems change investing done right

100 hours 57 mins; March 03, 2026

406 Neal Collins – Agrihoods for free-range kids: a Trojan horse for regenerative agriculture

80 hours 19 mins; February 24, 2026

405 Sylvia Banda - How she trained 60,000 farmers and transformed Zambia's food system

60 hours 20 mins; February 17, 2026

404 Joe Tomandl – CAFOs have caught up, can regenerative dairy still win?

66 hours 59 mins; February 10, 2026

403 Million Belay - Why the USAID shutdown was a gift to agroecology in Africa

52 mins; February 03, 2026

Martin Reiter - Meat Mythbusters (Bonus Episode)

5 mins; January 29, 2026

402 Martin Reiter – Building a $100B home for regenerative brands

63 hours 7 mins; January 27, 2026

401 Bart van der Zande - A venture studio is the solution to all our regenerative challenges

72 hours 39 mins; January 20, 2026

400 Omoke Brian - Inside Africa’s regenerative agriculture opportunity

60 hours 14 mins; January 13, 2026

399 AI in Ag: What’s Possible, What’s Not, What Farmers Need to Know @ Groundswell 2025

59 mins; January 09, 2026

398 Thekla Teunis and Gijs Boers - Regenerative practices deliver higher quality and way higher prices in year one

93 hours 29 mins; January 06, 2026

What 2025 taught us about making regen bankable, animals, water, chefs, scale, Al in ag, agroforestry, education, food as medicine, ROl, storytelling

14 mins; December 30, 2025

CHANGE AUDIO What we learned in 2025 about making regen bankable, animals, water, chefs and scale

51 mins; December 27, 2025

397 Andres Jara - How a chef-butcher-farmer turned legumes into a scalable, clean-label food that rewards farmers

93 hours 52 mins; December 23, 2025

396 Erin Martin - Making America Healthy Again with food as medicine, not Ozempic

68 hours 24 mins; December 16, 2025

395 Alfonso Chico de Guzmán - The ag-tech that brings cows back

96 hours 28 mins; December 08, 2025

394 Stef van Dongen - Trees don’t send invoices so a Catalan valley is rewiring water, forests and finance

57 mins; December 02, 2025

393 Simon Kraemer - The 'We’ll starve without fertilizer' crowd forgot to check the fields

65 hours 17 mins; November 25, 2025

392 Toby Parkes - Mapping the underground fungi world by building a unicorn

83 hours 16 mins; November 18, 2025

391 Julia Kasper - Rewetting peatlands is the biggest climate opportunity to cut CO2

50 mins; November 11, 2025

390 Nicola Giuggioli - Building a regenerative brand: from soil health to living wages

103 hours 7 mins; November 04, 2025

389 Jonathan Lundgren - You need more cows, not fewer, to save the planet

67 hours 11 mins; October 28, 2025

388 Justin Bruch - Organic out-earn conventional, how do we transition more farms and farmers?

75 hours 44 mins; October 21, 2025

387 Douglas Sheil - Why fixing water fixes carbon

60 hours 15 mins; October 14, 2025

386 Lauren Tucker - Inner regen work, gut molds, almonds groves in the Central Valley and taste buds

64 hours 36 mins; October 07, 2025

385 Maria Jensen - Giving cows a voice through epigenetics while improving animal welfare and profitability

87 hours 19 mins; September 30, 2025

384 Thomas Kliemt - A farming incubator with a 75% success rate (that nobody knows about) lands in Germany

52 mins; September 23, 2025

383 Rasmus Nørgaard - From bricks to soil: rethinking real estate from the ground up

82 hours 1 min; September 16, 2025

382 Dianne, Ian and Matthew Haggerty - Food, not commodities: how regenerative agriculture works at scale on 63,000 acres

91 hours 51 mins; September 09, 2025

381 Sarah Hellebek - Training Denmark’s next farmers with practitioners, not professors

57 mins; September 02, 2025

380 Frederik Lean Hansen - Double-purpose chickens and the regen dating agency matching landowners with land seekers

64 hours 32 mins; August 26, 2025

379 Cindie Christiansen - Top 50 Farmers update and the simple tweak to raise millions for regeneration

53 mins; August 19, 2025

378 Darren Doherty - 35 years in regeneration training farmers and the role of tech and AI

101 hours 27 mins; August 12, 2025

377 Rob de Laet - Water is key to cool the planet within 20 years

71 hours 9 mins; August 05, 2025

376 Sheila Darmos - Why Greece is leading the regenerative agriculture movement and what the world can learn

62 hours 58 mins; July 29, 2025

375 Matt Orlando - From Noma to building the world’s most circular restaurant and disrupting the chocolate industry

115 hours 4 mins; July 22, 2025

374 Birker, Bösel, Mazzola – The Regenerative Agronomy Gap: who do farmers call?

48 mins; July 15, 2025

373 Anat Shenker-Osorio - Why climate messages don’t land and how to rewrite the regenerative narrative

50 mins; July 08, 2025

372 Anand Ethirajalu - Harvesting the clouds: how to transition over 10,000 farmers a year, reducing input costs and increasing profits

81 hours 48 mins; July 01, 2025

371 Benedikt Boesel - Fully integrating 300 cows into a 1000-hectare arable very sandy farm

70 hours 23 mins; June 24, 2025

370 Thomas Hogenhaven – The €22M regen fund that said no to €7M

72 hours 31 mins; June 17, 2025

369 Ichsani Wheeler - We need more large animals in our landscapes

81 hours 14 mins; June 10, 2025

368 Béla Hatvany - Born in 1938, now thinking AI, enoughness, precision fermentation and building a care economy

59 mins; June 03, 2025

367 Anthony James - Learning from the legends how to become a positive keystone species

87 hours 18 mins; May 27, 2025

366 Austin Unruh - Silvopasture, planting trees on millions of acres of grassland, is the most scalable and profitable regen solution

65 hours 32 mins; May 20, 2025

365 Philip Kauders - From Goldman Sachs to investing hundreds of millions in agroforestry in Brazil

71 hours 52 mins; May 13, 2025

364 Paul McMahon - Why regen forestry is natural capital’s Trojan horse for institutional investors

66 hours 5 mins; May 06, 2025

363 James Arthur Smith - Mercury-free, microplastic-free, and Omega-3 rich: the future of seafood

66 hours 59 mins; April 29, 2025

362 Mike Velings - VC & PE won’t deliver regeneration — €250M evergreen proves it

84 hours 22 mins; April 22, 2025

361 Herb Young - After 36 years at Bayer, growing regen citrus with 8x the nutrients

65 hours 40 mins; April 15, 2025

360 Ethan Soloviev - AI, good food at Davos, food as medicine and regen taking off

55 mins; April 08, 2025

359 Louis De Jaeger - Eat More Trees: a Masterclass with thé storyteller of the Regen Space

78 hours 57 mins; April 01, 2025

358 Laimonas Noreika - From FinTech to Farms: bridging the €60B loan gap for Europe's small farms

52 mins; March 25, 2025

357 Kiira Heymann - From Non-GMO to Non-ultra-processed: everyone has the right to know what’s in their food

44 mins; March 18, 2025

356 Dimitri Tsitos - Making regenerative intensive tree crops profitable

88 hours 29 mins; March 11, 2025

355 Tom Hengl - We should reward the stewards of the land like we celebrate Olympic champions

61 hours 50 mins; March 04, 2025

354 Dan Barber - AI-Powered natural breeding: The End of GMOs, Gene Editing, and CRISPR?

65 hours 21 mins; February 25, 2025

353 Sébastien Crépieux - Insects, the perfect livestock to reintegrate into an arable farm

65 hours 55 mins; February 18, 2025

352 Matt Schmitt - How to make regenerative food and agriculture bankable

66 hours 30 mins; February 11, 2025

351 Paul Clarke - Smart Machines, AI and Modeling: engineering our way out

58 mins; February 04, 2025

350 Alice Henry - Finally real money for cover crops from sustainable aviation fuel

56 mins; January 31, 2025

349 Joseph Rehmann - Climate-positive fish is possible and its eggs are delivered by drones

80 hours 12 mins; January 28, 2025

348 Angus McIntosh - Walking the talk on Farmer Angus' land in South Africa

36 mins; January 21, 2025

347 Marcelo Salazar and Zé Porto – A forest super shake to preserve and regenerate the Amazon, the world's largest agroforestry system

77 hours 38 mins; January 14, 2025

346 Antonio Nobre - Why would one of the world’s leading earth scientists invest in nature-based unicorns?

69 hours 3 mins; January 07, 2025

345 Antonio Nobre - If nature were a bank it would have been saved already

65 hours 23 mins; January 03, 2025

What we learned in 2024 about ecocide, land access crisis, regenerative education, return of inspiration, chefs, machinery and brands driving change

22 mins; December 27, 2024

344 Kadir van Lohuizen - Walking the museum full of Food for Thought

68 hours 6 mins; December 24, 2024

343 Jacob Parnell – Move over chemicals, biological inputs work, and we can provide farmers with accurate advices

74 hours 35 mins; December 20, 2024

342 Ali Bin Shahid, one of the few who can model and calculate water cycle restoration

61 hours 26 mins; December 17, 2024

341 Laura Ortiz Montemayor - Ecology without social justice is just gardening

69 hours 48 mins; December 10, 2024

340 Philipp Stangl - Why an award winning hybrid blended regen meat company decided to exit before becoming a ‘unicorn’

43 mins; December 06, 2024

339 Ian McSweeney and Kristina Villa - You can’t address food security, soil carbon sequestration or climate change without first tackling the crisis of land access

78 hours 31 mins; December 03, 2024

338 Marco Carbonara – Using 10 species of animals to profitably regenerate 100 hectares of forgotten Italian land between Rome and Florence

68 hours 41 mins; November 26, 2024

337 John Holmyard – Lowest carbon protein aka mussels: it’s food, not a high tech unicorn

83 hours 12 mins; November 22, 2024

336 Kevin Wolz - Starting an agroforestry industry in the belly of the beast, the soy and corn monoculture heartland of the US Midwest

69 hours 14 mins; November 19, 2024

335 Cindie Christiansen and Analisa Winther - How a first-time non-profit raised almost €1 million to put 50 top regen farmers in the spotlight

66 hours 40 mins; November 12, 2024

334 Andres Jara - Walking the land of market garden De Stadsgroenteboer with a regenerative farmer

77 hours 14 mins; November 05, 2024

333 Jesús Areso Salinas - Building towers to trigger rain, to help nature sweat and cool

103 hours 52 mins; October 29, 2024

332 Aaron Huang - How ranching (and eating) of millions of zombie sea urchins could restore the massive kelp forests of the U.S. Pacific West Coast

67 hours 44 mins; October 25, 2024

331 Edd Lees - After 23 years in finance, a new career full of life, soil, bread and a famous DJ

71 hours 21 mins; October 22, 2024

330 Juliette Simonin - Teaching over 400.000 consumers that a farm isn’t a screw factory while selling them 4,7m boxes of organic and regen fruit and veggies straight from the farm

73 hours 7 mins; October 15, 2024

329 Yanik Nyberg - Are saltwater plants grown on tens of millions ha of abandoned, drained salt marshes going to be the livestock feed of the future?

55 mins; October 11, 2024

328 David Brunmayr - The future of agriculture is small-scale, now let’s build the tools for it

62 hours 14 mins; October 08, 2024

327 Franco Fubini - Delivering unmatched flavour to 2000 of the world's top restaurant and unlocking consumer demand

103 hours 5 mins; October 01, 2024

326 Chris Smaje - High tech manufactured food won’t save us. Spread money, people and energy more thinly instead

70 hours 22 mins; September 27, 2024

325 Stefania Avanzini - Why and how 26 food giants with a turn over of $900 billion are getting serious about regeneration and biodiversity

65 hours 13 mins; September 24, 2024

324 Frederik Lean Hansen - Small individual farms are probably not the future of farming in Europe

85 hours 26 mins; September 17, 2024

323 Chuck de Liedekerke - Paying 1600 farmers to change their practices and just raised €15M

89 hours 11 mins; September 10, 2024

322 Nettie Wiebe - We have become monocultural in our fields and minds

51 mins; September 06, 2024

321 Eduard Müller - Regenerative education is the answer, whatever the question was

87 hours 6 mins; September 03, 2024

320 Matthijs Westerwoudt - Paying farmers for cultivating weeds and making biodiversity super tasty by selling drinks and teas made from native plants

102 hours 32 mins; August 27, 2024

319 Mark Lewis – After putting half of their $50M fund to work in regen, what has one of the leading VCs in the world learned?

68 hours 48 mins; August 23, 2024

318 Clare Hill and Annie Rayner - The counter-narrative to industrialised chicken: what does it mean to produce deeply regenerative chicken and eggs?

62 hours 32 mins; August 20, 2024

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