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Leveraging the Complexity of Food Systems

Leveraging the Complexity of Food Systems

How new tools can support superior investment decisions USD 29 trillion per year. That’s how much the Scientific Group of the UN Food Systems Summit estimated the annual costs of environmental, health and economic impacts of food systems in 2021. The same year, the...

RR News Update: October 24, 2019

RR News Update: October 24, 2019

    Two leaders in the regenerative agriculture space spoke out about the biggest challenges facing the food system in honor of World Food Day, Bay Area restaurateurs are leading the way with a healthy soil surcharge, farmers in Iowa are in the spotlight as...

Finding Hope in the World’s Greatest Food Challenges

Finding Hope in the World’s Greatest Food Challenges

  An interview with two regenerative food systems leaders In honor of World Food Day on Oct. 16, Raising Regenerative spoke with two different leaders in the space to get their perspective on the biggest challenges facing the food system.   Caesaré Assad...

RR News Update: October 10, 2019

RR News Update: October 10, 2019

Regenerative Food Systems Investment Forum Wrap up: Last week nearly 200 people from across the regenerative food system and the investing community gathered at the inaugural Regenerative Food Systems Investment Forum in Oakland, CA. With a jam-packed agenda, an...

RR News Update: September 12, 2019

RR News Update: September 12, 2019

Deal Activity Ag fund Invests in Vancouver Blueberry Processor Agriculture Capital, a big investor in permanent crops including blueberries, is investing in Firestone Pacific Foods to help the company expand processing and cold storage capacity. Read more Terramera...

RR News Update: August 29, 2019

RR News Update: August 29, 2019

  Leading Off: Growing Regenerative Ag One Investment at a Time Farmers who want to transition to organic still find it hard to get financing from commercial lenders. But burgeoning numbers of alternative sources, such as Iroquois Valley Farmland REIT, are...

Growing Regenerative Ag One Investment at a Time

Growing Regenerative Ag One Investment at a Time

  By Leigh Glenn When Danforth, Ill, farmer Harold Wilken’s father was dying, Wilken told his dad he was going “100 percent organic.” “‘Why would you do that when we struggled for years to keep weeds down and it’s so much easier with herbicides?’” his father...

RR News Update: August 15, 2019

RR News Update: August 15, 2019

  The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report set the media abuzz with its claim that the world food supply is threatened by the climate crisis. Raising Regenerative highlights how regenerative agriculture is a focus as world...

RR News Update: August 1, 2019

RR News Update: August 1, 2019

Raising Regenerative looks at the discussion of the climate crisis in the second Democratic Presidential candidate debates, Cargill’s pledge to take on sustainability issues in the beef market, a new contest from Indigo Agriculture, a podcast with RFSI Forum keynote...

RR News Update: July 18, 2019

RR News Update: July 18, 2019

  Raising Regenerative celebrated the release of the landmark report Soil Wealth: Investing in Regenerative Agriculture Across Asset Classes by interviewing co-author Dr. David LeZaks. We also highlight a new Opportunity Zones fund that focuses on regenerative...

RR News Update: July 2, 2019

RR News Update: July 2, 2019

  In this abbreviated, July 4th holiday edition, Raising Regenerative looks at the Green New Deal and its implications for regenerative agriculture. RFSI Forum speaker Eric Jackson discusses how finance products can help farmers transition to organics and...

RR New Update – June 20, 2019

RR New Update – June 20, 2019

  Raising Regenerative takes a deeper look at the winners of FoodShot Global’s inaugural MoonShot Prize for Innovating Soil 3.0 and its impact on the industry. Born2Invest reports on why impact investors are turning to sustainable ag. Maple Hill Creamery CEO Tim...

RR News Update: June 6, 2019

RR News Update: June 6, 2019

  Raising Regenerative has a one-on-one interview with RFSI Forum speaker Esther Park of Cienega Capital explaining her company’s motivations for investing in regenerative agriculture. Watch another of our faculty for the Sep 30 – Oct 1 event, Shauna Sadowski of...

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