Regenerative Agriculture

The New Money in Regenerative Agriculture: What Smallholder Farmers Need to Know About Natural Asset Investment

By Hugh Locke During Climate Week NYC this past September, amid discussions about regenerative agriculture, there was an unmistakable signal that money was beginning to move. Not traditional agricultural lending, but something fundamentally different. Financial institutions were talking about natural capital funds. Investment managers were describing ecosystem services as tradeable assets. Pension funds were allocating […]

Indiana produce farm turns to AI-based robots to eliminate weeds

Sunrise Produce partners with Greenfield Robotics to eliminate herbicides, touts “Robot-Weeded” produce at Whole Foods stores There’s a new, unique label on sweet corn sold at some Whole Foods stores. The label reads “Robot-Weeded,” and the sweet corn was grown by Sunrise Produce, Inc. The Indiana family farm used artificial intelligence-based robotic weeders instead of […]

Soil & Climate Initiative teams with Seven Sundays to advance regenerative agriculture

Nonprofit SCI and non-GMO cereal company’s expanded partnership supports farmers and regenerative land movement There’s a new win-win for farmers and the regenerative agriculture movement: The nonprofit Soil & Climate Initiative (SCI) and non-GMO cereal company Seven Sundays are expanding their partnership to support more farmers as they adopt regenerative practices. A project of nonprofit […]

Rockefeller Foundation’s goal of feeding 100 million children by 2030 with “increasingly regenerative meals” also aims to reward farmers for sustainable practices.

By Jennifer Marston, AgFunder News At the recent UN Food Systems Summit +4, the Rockefeller Foundation brought together a mix of speakers, partners, government ministers, various officials, and others to discuss its Regenerative School Meals initiative. This convening—aimed at increasing collaboration between countries when it comes to strengthening school meal programs—marked another step in the Rockefeller Foundation’s […]

Regenerative agriculture takes root at universities across the country

By Nina Benjamin Amidst the storied halls of an Ivy, students discuss circular economies and growing incomes for small-holder coffee farmers in Latin America. Across the country in Blythe, California, a team of students, researchers, and ag producers investigates the impact of regenerative practices on soil carbon accrual. And in America’s heartland, university professors and […]