Funding Opportunity opens to pilot new revenue streams for America’s climate-smart farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners. Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities opportunities will finance pilot projects that create market opportunitites for U.S. agricultural & forestry products that used climate-smart practices.
Read MoreA maker is also a customer, who buys materials. Or a parent, training the next generation maker. Or a resident of a particular city. Those are all self-defined roles. However, that same maker might also be a retailer, who deponds on others to buy her products. Or a leader in a local civic association. Makers […]
Read MoreGeneral Mills, ADM, Cargill, McDonald’s, and The Nature Conservancy are among 10 companies forming a national market to incentivize the adoption of sustainable farming practices, they are forming a national market by 2022 to incentivize the adoption of farming practices that build soil carbon and improve water conservation. Talks for the Ecosystem Services Market Consortium […]
Read MoreAlliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) was started with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, to double yields and incomes for 30 million smallholder farm households while having food insecurity by 2020. There are no significant productivity and income boosts from promoted commercial seeds and agrochemicals in […]
Read MoreFindings were that well-managed grazing in some contexts-the climate, soils and management regime all have to be right-can cause some carbon to be sequestered in soils. The maximum global potential would offset only 20%-60% of emissions from grazing cattle, 4%-11% of total livestock emissions, and 0.6%-1.6% of total annual greenhouse gas emissions. Grazing livestock-even in […]
Read MoreEvery five years, Congress’s $1 trillion Farm Bill funds the agricultural indsutry. A coalition of farmers & companies to get the bill to support regenerative farming-and prioritize family farmers over large-scale agribusiness.
Read MoreThriving Comm program for underserved climate impacted- Oct. 6 email from Sandi Curd
Read MoreLand degradation is recognized as one of the world’s most pressing environmental problems. Scientists warn that 24 billion tons of fertile soil are being lost each year, largely due to unsustainable agriculture practices. Agave and mesquite grown together for one of most effective carbon sequestration land restoration methods in the world.
Read MoreThe challenges run deep, and the solutions require innovative thinking around equal access to economic opportunity, healthcare, education, healthy food, financial serviecs, and more to enable all people to thrive. We are active investors in many of these categories, and we are committed to working with founders of all backgrounds, non-profits focused on these areas, […]
Read MoreThe Diederich’s are fifth gen farms and ranchers in Washington Co. in Northern Kansas. During COVID-19, they saw the scarceness in meat at the grocery. They got on Shop Kansas Farms’ to try to sell meat that would ultimately be destroyed due to meat packing plants shutting down. The Shop Kansas Farms group, has more […]
Read MoreThe shock to U.S. food chains from the coronavirus has been a boom to small-and mid-size farms and distributors. This two-pronged crisis forced large commodity farms devoted to the production of onions for restaurant onion rings or milk for school lunches, to dump produce and milk by the truckload, and slaughter pigs and chickens by […]
Read MoreAll organisms are ultimately dependent on a large diversity of consumptive and non-consumptive interactions established with other organisms, forming an intricate web of interdependencies. We need to gain a better understanding of the global-scale synergies and trade-offs between climate change and biological change.
Read MoreSpringboard, a mentor-guided online learning platform that prepares people for an in-demand careers, announced today is has rasied $31 million in Series B funding, bringing its total capital raised to more than $50 million. The latest round of capital will enable Springboard to double down on student employability in response to the current job market […]
Read MoreBroadly speaking, the world’s three richest tech billionaires are all trying to develop new technologies that can reduce the world’s carbon dioxide emissions. It’s widely known that trees are among the most efficient carbon-capture machines on earth. Trees and reforestation however, are relatively low down on the tech billionaire agenda list.
Read MorereNature works with companies like Nestle and Lust to develop scalable models for regenerative agroforestry in commodity supply chains. The business case for regenerative agroforestry focuses on poly-crop income in a system that reduces input costs, prepares farmers to receive price premiums via certification, and allows for carbon capture credits, all with the aim to […]
Read MoreLocal food sales only 3% of agriculture sales, an ERS report & other studies that a higher percentage of local food sales in 2015 were through retailers, institutions, and intermediate markets, rather than directly to consumers.
Read MoreSJF Ventures has launched SJF Ventures V,L,P., a $175 million impact investment fund. SJF backs visionary entrepreneurial teams working in clean energy and climate, circular economy and logistics, mobility and govtech, health, education, future of work, and sustainable food.
Read MoreNew Byron Bay VC fund ReGen Ventures has closed its first US $50M fund, founded by former investment banker and hedge fund manager Dan Fitzgerald, ReGen has ambitions of investing into regenerative technologies by 2050.
Read MoreBill Gates has quietly made himself the largest owner of farmland in the United States. For a man obsessed with monopoly control, the opportunity to also dominate food production must seem irresistible. Gates’ campaign to scarf up America’s agricultural real estate is a signal that feudalism may again be in vogue. At worst, his buying […]
Read MoreAcosta finds 92% of families aim to continue or increase home dining. Post pandemic, 92% of families plan to continue eating together at home at least as often or more often than they do now. Nearly 2/3 of shoppers cooked at home more during the pandemic, eating far more meals at home all the time.
Read MoreTrailhead Capital stepped into the world of regenerative agriculture investing w/ the launch of a new fund & a progressive strategy seeking to build a bridge between Big Ag.
Read MoreA Maryland farmer who owns 10,000 acres of commodity grain cropland sold carbon credits to a couple of major groups in exchange for planting cover crops and limiting his tillage. It’s just the beginning of what could be decades long boondoggle of pouring “climate investment” money down the drain while actively making our global environment […]
Read MoreBrown was invited to explain how climate change is affecting farmers and ranchers. Take carbon out of the atmosphere and put it into the soil, increase farm profitability, improve water quality, and improve human health. Gabe Brown – the best simple explanation for why we need to unite behind regen ag.
Read MoreNew program offers farmers & organic farming advocates the opportunity to assist transitioning farmers in collaboration w/ Rodale Institute. Rodale Institute Certified Advisor Program, a part-time employment opportunity that builds a network of local, trusted organic consultants backed by Rodale Institute’s Expertise.
Read MoreMike Smith, president and COO of Stitch Fix has been comitted to recruiting and developing a diverse workforce. One of the most common recommendations on how to be a better ally to members of historically marginalized communitites (HMCs) is to sponsor them. The ABCDs of sponsorship: amplifying, boosting, connecting, defending, and using sponsorship for social […]
Read MoreIn his new book, Bill Gates discusses his plans to model African food systems upon India’s “green revolution” where a plant scientist increased crop yields and saved a billion lives. The obstacle he asserts to implementing this is that most farmers in poor countries don’t have the financial means to buy fertizilers. He doesn’t consider […]
Read MoreIn 2014, S2G Ventures was founded for a healthier and more resilient food system as an undervalued solution to the national and global health crisis and looming threats of climate change. S2G Ventures has challenegd the private market to catalyze $10 billion of investment over the next 3 years directed at transitioning to a carbon […]
Read MoreGPS collars that alert cows when they reach a boundry are helping to improve habitats and boost biodiversity. Fenceless grazing is being hailed as revolutionary by conservationists and farmers, particularly in beautiful, senstitive or rough upalnd landscapes that are impractical, expensive or undesireable to fence.
Read MoreCelebrating 10 Years of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, ‘Power of 10’ is launched, it is a fundraiser that incorporates a digital and social media campaign celebration of entrepreneurial success. The campaign allows us to acknowledge and celebrate the accomplishments, entrepreneurs, business and supporters of the Entrepreneur Center.
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