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.
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Sep 29, 2026 · 1:20:39
What if the best argument for regenerative agriculture isn't the planet, but the profit? Francisco Roque de Pinho didn't set out to become a regenerative farmer. He came from…
Sep 22, 2026 · 1:24:44
Jacob Israelow is the founder of Dirt Capital Partners , an investment platform that partners with regenerative farmers and ranchers to help them secure long-term access to the…
Sep 15, 2026 · 45:51
Five years ago, many people in the regenerative agriculture space thought that simply paying farmers for soil carbon storage would rewire the agricultural system in a heartbeat.…
Sep 8, 2026 · 1:00:57
Only 4% of Benedikt Bösel's customers scanned the QR code on their meat — even though that code would have shown them the life of the specific cow they were eating, its pasture,…
Sep 1, 2026 · 1:23:47
Eric Smith is the founder of Edacious, a company building the infrastructure to make food quality and nutrient density measurable, objective and comparable. After spending years…
Aug 25, 2026 · 1:02:42
Abby Rose is an experienced agricultural storyteller, co-host of the award-winning podcast Farmerama Radio, and co-founder of the soil monitoring and data platform VidaCycle.…
Aug 11, 2026 · 52:36
Water always wins. The question is whether we let it cool the planet while it does — or keep fighting it until there's nothing left to fight with. Erica Gies is the author of…
Aug 4, 2026 · 57:02
An orange farm near Valencia, abandoned for a decade, a family debt, and a website. Seventeen years later: 500,000 customers, 350 partner farmers, 400 employees, and not a single…
Jul 28, 2026 · 1:54:16
200 euros in a bank account, no contract, and a vision. Six and a half years later: 160,000 trees, a soil temperature at 15cm depth of a constant 21°C — while the bare field…
Jul 21, 2026 · 1:02:08
Dimitri Tsitos, co-founder of Agrosystemic, left Greece a decade ago, spent years working across European farming systems, and eventually landed in Portugal to run what has…
Jul 14, 2026 · 1:13:58
João Valente, owner of Monte Silveira , took over his family farm in central-eastern Portugal that was running on tobacco, broccoli, and melons with sixty-five people employed…
Jul 7, 2026 · 1:22:18
Diogo Pinho started his scientific career in the first DNA sequencing lab in Portugal, then did a hands-on PhD on the soil microbiome of cork and holm oak, studying why the trees…
Jun 30, 2026 · 1:27:06
Lara Espírito Santo grew up shuttling between Rio de Janeiro and her father’s industrial farms in Paraguay and Brazil, traded a planned career in politics and international…
Jun 23, 2026 · 40:28
Brazilian-trained chemical engineer, Raiza Rezende left a career path lined up by petroleum, gas, and pharmaceutical companies to study syntropic agriculture with Ernst Götsch,…
Jun 16, 2026 · 1:20:27
John Gilliland is a sixth-generation UK farmer and advocate for sustainable agriculture with a legacy in policy, academia, and innovation. As a leader of the ARC Zero project,…
Jun 9, 2026 · 22:54
Europe doesn't have a water problem. The rain still falls; we've just spent a few hundred years engineering it off the land as fast as we can, which James Barrett likens to…
Jun 2, 2026 · 1:16:32
The Midwest: 140 million acres of corn and soybeans, rural economies slowly dying, a system with no real long-term future in terms of soil or human health. It's also where…
May 26, 2026 · 29:21
Daniel Vidal, head chef of Baldío, LATAM's first zero-waste restaurant, joined Koen in the kitchen in Mexico City to talk about what it actually takes to make radical food…
May 22, 2026 · 1:15:10
As a child in Nairobi, Benedetta Kyengo spent holidays climbing trees and eating mangoes and papayas at her grandmother's food forest in eastern Kenya. Eight years later, every…
May 19, 2026 · 36:01
Fermentation is the oldest food technology on earth. It happens in our guts, in the soil, in every cup of coffee and most restaurants still throw the juiced lime away. At Baldío,…
May 12, 2026 · 56:03
An ancient farm system, built by hand on top of water, hidden inside one of the largest cities on earth and almost nobody knows it exists. The chinampas of Xochimilco are…
May 8, 2026 · 53:01
When Janet Maro started building training programs with farmers in Tanzania, she didn't arrive with a curriculum. She asked farmers what they knew, what they needed, and what…
May 5, 2026 · 1:02:25
Mexico has thousands of bean varieties. Most people living in cities know four to five. Silke Gérman is on a mission to change that. She is the founder of La Comandanta, a…
Apr 28, 2026 · 1:13:44
Gut & Bösel in Alt Madlitz, Brandenburg is one of the largest regenerative farms in Europe — 3,000 hectares of arable land and forestry on some of the sandiest, driest soils in…
Apr 24, 2026 · 1:06:15
Sylvia Kuria started with a kitchen garden and a refusal to use chemicals on food for her newborn. Seventeen years later, she runs Sylvia's Basket, aggregates organic produce…
Apr 21, 2026 · 1:16:33
Argentina has just issued its first grazing-based carbon credits and the story behind them is forty years in the making. Pablo Francisco Borrelli, co-founder of Ruuts, has spent…
Apr 14, 2026 · 1:10:57
Your tongue might be the most underused tool we have for understanding food quality — and for moving consumer buying power toward regenerative farming. Sherry Hess, culinary…
Apr 10, 2026 · 42:21
African soils were once so alive, nobody called it regeneration, the land just gave. Dr. Kofi Boa, founder of the Center for No-Till Agriculture (CNTA) in Ghana, has spent…
Apr 7, 2026 · 44:51
The healthiest economies will show up with drinkable rivers. That is the image Laura Ortiz Montemayor works backwards from — every Monday morning, every investor meeting, every…
Mar 31, 2026 · 52:22
Regenerative agriculture really works. Data shows that the ability of crops, from planting to harvest, to withstand weather shocks (50-year droughts and floods happening every…
Mar 27, 2026 · 57:19
Seeds, seeds, seeds. It all starts with power and who controls the seeds. But who is actually building scalable companies in this space? Today we have one: a decentralised seed…
Mar 24, 2026 · 1:05:16
Why are we completely ignoring our biggest organ, our skin? The skin care and cosmetics industry is a 200 billion industry and growing fast, often with great margins. Most of it…
Mar 17, 2026 · 1:11:16
Carbon is life, not the enemy. And in this wide-ranging conversation with the legend that is Paul Hawken, we get into all of it. Paul is an activist, entrepreneur with Project…
Mar 13, 2026 · 1:19:13
We sit down with Olusola Sowemimo, a lawyer-turned-farmer and founder of Ope Farms in Nigeria, to unpack how grief became a blueprint for organic, traceable, and profitable…
Mar 10, 2026 · 59:59
It’s a very interesting time for African agriculture and food, the continent is realising it’s potential to help feed the world, money is flowing into infrastructure to unlock…
Mar 3, 2026 · 1:40:57
The food, agriculture and planetary systems, for that matter, are all in serious need of change. No news there. But how? Individual investments and grants, however large, will…
Feb 24, 2026 · 1:20:19
Think about where and how you live. Close your eyes and picture your ideal neighbourhood. We bet it looks something like this: a walkable neighbourhood designed around a fully…
Feb 17, 2026 · 1:00:20
A conversation with Sylvia Banda, Zambian business woman, restaurateur and social entrepreneur about her journey started when when she was 12. She opened her first food company,…
Feb 10, 2026 · 1:06:59
We are at an interesting moment in the dairy sector. For years, smaller farmers with around 200 cows, who were also great graziers, could undercut the costs of large concentrated…
Feb 3, 2026 · 52:52
The difference between agroecology and regenerative agriculture is the deep social change we need in the food and agriculture system. As Laura Ortiz Montemayor told us once…
Jan 29, 2026 · 5:47
This is deep dive into common misconceptions about red meat, methane emissions from cows, and the feasibility of transitioning to grass-fed beef production. We discuss the health…
Jan 27, 2026 · 1:03:07
What is needed to truly move the needle on health? Create more research, more trials on nutrient density, more advocacy? Or, as Martin Reiter, founder of RARE argues, create the…
Jan 20, 2026 · 1:12:39
How to get more entrepreneurs building in the regeneration space? If you are a regular listener of this podcast, you have heard us discuss this so many times you probably lost…
Jan 13, 2026 · 1:00:14
Bill Gates Foundation works in Africa: what goes through your mind when you hear those words? We all probably quickly have our thoughts ready, but hold on a second. Just as we…
Jan 9, 2026 · 59:08
AI is transforming agriculture, how can farmers and land managers be sure it works for them? What digital twins, soil health metrics, novel robot sensors and other technologies…
Jan 6, 2026 · 1:33:29
Regenerative practices lead to higher quality and much higher prices in year one and, over time, to lower costs, which makes the regenerative business case in certain cash crops…
Dec 30, 2025 · 14:29
This is our 2025 wrap episode. If 2025 had a soundtrack, it would be pressure: pressure on systems, on people, on animals, on land. Heat. Drought. Fire. Flood. Repeating across…
Dec 23, 2025 · 1:33:52
How do you make legumes great again? This is not a political episode. It’s about something far more urgent: giving legumes the role they truly deserve in our food system.…
Dec 16, 2025 · 1:08:24
Make America healthy again : is that helping the food-as-medicine movement or hurting it? And why is it so important to focus on quality food as medicine- which means nutrient…
Dec 9, 2025 · 1:36:28
Straight from La Junquera farm, in Murcia, Spain, a Walking the Land episode with Alfonso Chico de Guzmán, a regenerative livestock farmer. It starts as a hobby . So, you take a…
Dec 2, 2025 · 57:12
A check in conversation with Stef van Dongen, founder of The Pioneers of Our Time. Sitting at the fireplace we trace how neighbors who barely spoke began phoning across…
Nov 25, 2025 · 1:05:17
How do we feed the world? It’s all nice and cute this regenerative agriculture and food stuff, but how do we actually feed the world? By 2050, we’ll need to produce double the…
Nov 18, 2025 · 1:23:16
In order to save and more importantly restore biodiversity we don’t need biodiversity or carbon credits; we need biologists to find super profitable business models within the…
Nov 11, 2025 · 50:53
Meet Julia Kasper, cofounder and CEO of Zukunftmoor, a company rewetting drained peatlands and growing sphagnum moss to transform how we think about agriculture. Their powerful…
Nov 4, 2025 · 1:43:07
Can you pay a decent year-round salary to farm workers, enough to go to a bank, get a mortgage, and still not charge prices that make your produce accessible only to the happy…
Oct 28, 2025 · 1:07:11
A new conversation with Jonathan Lundgren, one of the world’s most interesting and most cited scientists when it comes to regenerative agriculture. For the last four years,…
Oct 21, 2025 · 1:15:44
A conversation with Justin Bruch, Cofounder-President & CEO of Clear Frontier, born and raised 5th generation Iowa farmer. He has actively farmed on 4 continents and has spent…
Oct 14, 2025 · 1:00:15
Yes, we’re talking again about water cycles and this time with Douglas Sheil, Professor of Forest Ecology and Forest Management at Wageningen University , one of the most famous…
Oct 7, 2025 · 1:04:36
This is a check-in conversation with Lauren Tucker, co-founder of Kiss the Ground and Renourish Studios . We talk about wrapping up the cohort at Renourish Studio, where they’ve…
Sep 30, 2025 · 1:27:19
A conversation with Maria Jensen, co-founder of Antler Bio, helping dairy farmers identify and address factors limiting their herd’s full potential. What if cows could speak?…
Sep 23, 2025 · 52:25
A check-in conversation with Thomas Kliemt, formerly part of Kulturland, which has been growing and they are suddenly, after 10 years in the making, an overnight success. In the…
Sep 16, 2025 · 1:22:01
Straight from Copenhagen, a conversation with Rasmus Nørgaard, co-founder of Urban Partners, Home.Earth and Nordhus with over two decades of experience in real estate, pushing…
Sep 9, 2025 · 1:31:51
Legend alarm on the podcast! We are happy to welcome the Haggerty's family, Ian and Dianne, together with their son Matthew, on the podcast sharing their 30+ year journey- from…
Sep 2, 2025 · 57:46
A walking the land episode with Sarah Hellebek, deputy head at Krogerup Højskole, who spent years at the heart of Denmark’s climate activist movement. By most measures, she was…
Aug 26, 2025 · 1:04:32
A barefoot conversation across his Danish farmland with Frederik Lean Hansen, advisor on regenerative farm finance, revealing the efficiency of his pasture-raised chicken…
Aug 19, 2025 · 53:30
A check in conversation with Cindie Christiansen, founder of Foodprint Nordic and Top 50 Farmers (no, it’s not a ranking, so nobody “won”). We spoke just six months ago, but this…
Aug 12, 2025 · 1:41:27
A conversation with Darren J Doherty, co-founder of Regrarians, in the space of regeneration and regenerating for over 35 years, about the role of technology, AI, and large…
Aug 5, 2025 · 1:11:09
A conversation with Rob de Laet, project lead of Cooling the Climate and co-author of the book Cooling the Climate: How to Revive the Biosphere and Cool the Earth Within 20 Years…
Jul 29, 2025 · 1:02:58
A conversation with Sheila Darmos, co-founder of the Southern Lights, based in the southern Peloponnese, Greece with the mission is to spread knowledge, techniques, and the…
Jul 22, 2025 · 1:55:04
A conversation with Matt Orlando, chef, entrepreneur, and former head chef at Noma. He is also the founder of Amass, one of the most circular and fully organic restaurants in the…
Jul 15, 2025 · 48:58
A conversation with farmer Benedikt Bösel, farmer and regen agronomist Matteo Mazzola and Philippe Birker, co-founder of Climate Farmers. We need regenerative agronomists .…
Jul 8, 2025 · 50:23
A conversation with Anat Shenker-Osorio, founder of A.S.O. Communications, a progressive political communication bureau known for slogans such as “Don’t take the temperature,…
Jul 1, 2025 · 1:21:48
A conversation with Anand Ethirajalu, farmer-turned-ecologist and project director for the Save Soil movement. We don’t talk about it much, but we should: a remarkable transition…
Jun 24, 2025 · 1:10:23
It just doesn’t happen very often we record in a field surrounded by cows just after a cow gave birth to a calf. There is not more fitting place to explore the super complex role…
Jun 17, 2025 · 1:12:31
After three years, Thomas Hogenhaven, founder and managing partner of Planetary Impact Ventures, is back on the podcast. Thomas and his team just turned down a $7 million…
Jun 10, 2025 · 1:21:14
Ichsani Wheeler , co-founder of OpenGeoHub and Envirometrix, challenges dominant assumptions in land use and agricultural design, making the case for more large animals in our…
Jun 3, 2025 · 59:23
A conversation with Béla Hatvany, pioneering entrepreneur in the automation of libraries and the information industry, born in 1938, turned into angel investor and…
May 27, 2025 · 1:27:18
A conversation with Anthony James, host of The RegenNarration podcast, a Prime Ministerial award winner for service to the international community and Honorary Research Fellow at…
May 20, 2025 · 1:05:32
A conversation with Austin Unruh, founder of Trees for Graziers, about the investment case for silvopasture. What if we could plant hundreds of millions of trees on degraded,…
May 13, 2025 · 1:11:52
A conversation with Philip Kauders, CEO and co-founder of Courageous Land , working on reforesting landscapes via large-scale biodiverse agroforestry. We can invest hundreds of…
May 6, 2025 · 1:06:05
A conversation with Paul McMahon, co-founder SLM partners, about forestry being the gateway drug for natural capital for institutional investors to put money to work. Why?…
Apr 29, 2025 · 1:06:59
A check in conversation with James Arthur Smith, founder of Seatopia , about their data-driven focus on nutrient density (plus mercury/microplastics testing) resonates more…
Apr 22, 2025 · 1:24:22
A conversation with Mike Velings, co-founder of Aqua-Spark , a global investment fund for sustainable aquaculture, about how an invite he should have never received lead to the…
Apr 15, 2025 · 1:05:40
A conversation with Herb Young, farmer who, after 36 years in the chemical industry working for Bayer, retired and bought a small farm in Georgia—where things quickly got out of…
Apr 8, 2025 · 55:46
A check- in conversation with Ethan Soloviev, Chief Innovation Officer at HowGood, about how regenerative agriculture is truly taking off, its position within large food and…
Apr 1, 2025 · 1:18:57
A conversation with Louis De Jaeger, international keynote speaker, author, award-winning filmmaker, and landscape designer , about dreams, action, and storytelling—how to reach…
Mar 25, 2025 · 52:24
A conversation with Laimonas Noreika, founder of HeavyFinance, about providing loans to farmers, bringing innovation to the traditionally stagnant agri-loan sector (some numbers:…
Mar 18, 2025 · 44:20
A conversation with Kiira Heymann, Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Non-GMO Project and the Food Integrity Collective. After the success of the Non-GMO Project in the…
Mar 11, 2025 · 1:28:29
A deep dive into the world of intensive—or super-intensive—tree crops, particularly olives and almonds with Dimitri Tsitos, co-founder of Agrosystemic, the Regenerative…
Mar 4, 2025 · 1:01:50
A long-overdue check-in conversation with Tom Hengl, director at OpenGeoHub, one of the leading scientists in earth observation and remote sensing—one of the most cited in his…
Feb 25, 2025 · 1:05:21
An overdue check-in conversation with Dan Barber, chef, co-owner of Blue Hill restaurants and co-founder of Row 7 Seeds, where we dive into the fascinating world of seeds and how…
Feb 18, 2025 · 1:05:55
A conversation with Sébastien Crépieux , founder of Invers, developing a decentralised insect farming supply chain for animal nutrition, placing farmers at the heart of the…
Feb 11, 2025 · 1:06:30
A conversation with Matt Schmitt, founder of Structure Climate, about how to get institutional investors invest in the regenerative food and agriculture transitions. These are…
Feb 4, 2025 · 58:35
A conversation with Paul Clarke, technologist, innovator, inventor about technology and innovative tools from various domains, including modelling, digital twins, digital…
Jan 31, 2025 · 56:51
Crops and sustainable aviation fuel—probably not something you think about every day. Alice Henry, co-founder of Regenrate, took a deep dive into why cover crops, which provide…
Jan 28, 2025 · 1:20:12
A conversation with Joseph Rehmann, co-founder of Victory Farms in Kenya, with the mission to be the world's most sustainable fish business and provide high nutrition protein to…
Jan 21, 2025 · 36:51
An afternoon stroll through the land of Angus McIntosh, also known as Farmer Angus, where we talk about brands, wine and get interrupted by dogs and, believe it or not, a grazing…
Jan 14, 2025 · 1:17:38
A conversation with Marcelo Salazar & Zé Porto, co-founders of Mazô Maná, about how we preserve what is left of the Amazon rainforest, regenerate the forest and, most…
Jan 7, 2025 · 1:09:03
In the second episode of the two-part conversation with Antonio Nobre, Brazilian agronomist by training and world’s leading Earth scientist, serving as the scientific director of…
Jan 3, 2025 · 1:05:23
A conversation with Antonio Nobre, Brazilian agronomist by training and world’s leading Earth scientist, serving as the scientific director of the Biotic Pump Greening Group. He…
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