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Insights from the First WTF2 Meet-Up
Earlier this week, RFSI held the first Women Transforming Food & Finance meet-up in Boulder, Colorado, in partnership with Robyn O’Brien of Montcalm. The goal was to bring women working in all corners of the agriculture, food and finance systems in the region...
Meet the Activator: Lively Earth
Meet the Activator is a regular series designed to highlight the incredible and diverse solution builders activating capital for regeneration across the agriculture and food system. Activator: Fanny Corpet Company: Lively EarthDescription of Company: Lively...
Why We Need to Talk More About the Economics of Regenerative Agriculture
There can be no doubt that the regenerative agriculture movement is growing. This is evidenced by the number of new regenerative agriculture market reports proclaiming an expected 14-16% CAGR through 2030, the number of multi-national food corporations conducting...
RFSI’s Top Read Stories of 2023
Despite the economic downturn that had a stark impact on investment across asset classes, 2023 was a busy year for the development and investment in regenerative agriculture and food. RFSI News covered the year with both curated news from around the sector and with...
Reframing Our Understanding of Regenerative
If you are familiar with John Kempf’s work, you might know that he is one of the leading experts in biological and regenerative farming today. Or you might know that he got his start in agriculture when he was very young and a quest to better understand plant...
2023 Regenerative Holiday Gift Giving
The holiday season is among us! So we've put together a list of gift guides from regenerative food and agriculture organizations in our community to help you find just the right gift for everyone on your gift list. Choosing a gift from one of these guides comes with...
Growing Returns: Agroforestry’s Success Over Technical and Financial Obstacles
For more than three decades, Keavin Hill has managed corn, soy, and wheat across approximately 4,000 acres of farmland that covers parts of both southern Ohio and Northern Kentucky. But today these properties are starting to look a little different. This past summer...
Providing Flexible Capital to Under-Resourced Farmers
A Collaborative Capital Case Study: The challenge is not so unfamiliar: small to medium-scale farmers often seek to make improvements and investments in their operations, including transitioning to regenerative practices, but they do not have access to the capital...
Women Transforming Food: Building Brands that Nourish People and Planet
For both Meghan Rowe and Sara Delaney starting food businesses was a means to addressing issues near and dear to their hearts, while meeting an unmet market need. For Meghan it was to address a clear need for baby food with clean ingredients that even went a step...
Meet the Activator: Merge Impact
Meet the Activator is a regular series designed to highlight the incredible and diverse solution builders activating capital for regeneration across the agriculture and food system. Company: Merge Impact Description of Company: Merge Impact activates...
Key Take-Aways from the 2023 RFSI Forum
In 2019, we brought the idea of Regenerative Food Systems Investment (RFSI) to fruition in Oakland, CA. Our goal was to catalyze increased interest in and capital allocation to investments in regenerative agriculture and food systems. Fast forward five years, and we...
Lessons from Investors at the RFSI Forum
Guest article by Aaron Desatnik, Fractal Ag I vividly recall the first farmland investing memo that I wrote in 2011. In a CNBC interview that March, Warren Buffet famously said “I’d rather have all the farmland in the U.S. than all the world’s gold.” The firm’s goal...
AEA Launches Community Fundraise Campaign
In an exciting new development, regenerative agriculture service company, Advancing Eco Agriculture (AEA), has launched a community fundraising campaign on WeFunder that will allow farmers, regenerative agriculture investors and regenerative agriculture enthusiasts...
SLM Partners and Impact Ag Partners Launch New Australian Fund
Two powerhouse real asset managers - SLM Partners and Impact Ag Partners - are joining forces to launch a new fund that will invest in regenerative agriculture and carbon storage in Australia. The goal of the SLM Agri Carbon Fund, which combines decade-plus experience...
Seeding the Future of Regenerative Food Supply Systems
Awareness about the complexities of the middle of the food supply system has increased in the past three years since the Covid pandemic shone a bright light on how brittle and breakable it is. Since that time, there’s been some effort and some funding to address the...
The Next Steps for Regen Ag Finance May Not Be What You Think
David LeZaks and Lauren Manning have just taken the helm at Food System 6. As they reimagine the path forward for that organization, they are also challenging the status quo of finance in the regenerative space and asking some important questions. For many years,...
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