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Regen Food Systems Investing: Q1 2024 Round-Up
Nearly every week, RFSI News curates the latest news in regenerative agriculture and food systems investing, plus shares some stories of our own along the way, covering the latest strategies, players, challenges and opportunities that exist in the space. This...
Regenerative Capital: Aligning Intention with Reality
Like regenerative agriculture, regenerative capital needs to be looked at from the perspective of what it regenerates, how this capital is different from traditional extractive approaches, and the process by which the intended regenerative outcomes actually...
New $25 Million Offering from Iroquois Valley Will Support Land Security for Communities of Color
Regenerative land stewardship has an important role to play in addressing the climate, pollution, and human health crises brought on, in part, by decades of extractive agriculture and food systems. But we are only at the beginning of what needs to be a massive...
Meet the Activator: 4P Foods
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: 4P Foods, PBC Description of Company: 4P Foods is a Public Benefit...
Announcing RFSI’s Advisory Committee
In our first four years of work at RFSI, we sought and received feedback and support from many generous people working across regenerative agriculture and food systems. Now, in the thick of our 5th year, we are very pleased to announce our first formal RFSI Advisory...
4 Key Groups That Food Corporations Must Support to Facilitate Regeneration
If you want to start a hot debate in a room full of people working on food system transformation, bring up the role of multi-national food corporations. The conversation will undoubtedly beeline to a discussion about whether these CPGs can actually meet bold...
How the Non-Accredited Investor Can Invest in Regenerative Agriculture & Food
Opportunities to invest in regenerative agriculture and food have increased dramatically in the past five years and for good reason. As awareness around regenerative agriculture grows, so too has the understanding of the multi-faceted benefits it can provide,...
UK’s First Exclusively Regenerative Food and Ag VC Firm Drives Change with £50M Fund
How Pelican Ag aims to spark change from farm to fork to restore the balance of food, nature, health and planet. Four years ago, Chris Ramsay and Simon Evill were on separate paths. One was a Blackrock, Jupiter and CCAM alumni, had raised $1.8 B for 5 funds, grown 30+...
Mainstream Food Meets Regenerative: 7 Lessons from the Past Year
In the past 12 months we have seen a proliferation of the term regenerative agriculture across the food system – from farmer, to emerging brand, to input providers, to global food corporates – representing many, many different levels of understanding and approaches to...
Meet the Activator: Good Agriculture
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: Good Agriculture Description of Company: Good Agriculture supports...
Farmer Mental Health Crisis is Another Call for Systems Transformation
Farmers and ranchers are twice as likely as people in other occupations to die by suicide, according to 2020 data from the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Sit with that startling stat for a moment. Now, consider that despite that mental health effects...
Transition Finance: What Is It and Why We Need to Avoid Tunnel Vision
As regenerative agriculture gains traction, an important spotlight has been shone on farmers and their on-farm transition to regenerative practices. We’ve discussed the barriers to transition for farmers at length. The most prominent of these include cultural...
Market Signals for Regenerative and the Drivers Behind Them
In 2023, the ecosystem of operations working to build regenerative farming and food systems seems to be growing rapidly. This is in large part because regenerative agriculture – at scale – promises to address many of the challenges to the current system, with positive...
What’s New in 2023 at the RFSI Forum
Regenerative Food Systems Investment is pleased to announce the 5th annual RFSI Forum on September 26-27 - the ONLY event that exclusively brings together investors, capital activators, and critical stakeholders working to build regenerative food systems. The RFSI...
After 2 Shark Tank Investments, Chapul Opens $10M Series A to Leverage Insects for Soil Health and Reduced Food Waste
Diverting organics from landfills is the #1 actionable item to address climate change, but we "lack scalable technologies" to address the problem (Project Drawdown, 2022). In the US alone there is over 83 million tons of food waste per year. Several state and federal...
Meet the Activator: Trace
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: Trace Femcare, Inc. Description of Company: We innovate supply...
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