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Regenerative Agriculture Podcast

Episode 92: Growing Regenerative Opportunities with Koen van Seijen

Regenerative Agriculture Podcast

AEA Marketing

Earth Sciences, Science, Natural Sciences

4.7 • 546 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Koen van Seijen has interviewed over 250 investors, investment fund managers, opinion leaders, farmers, and scientists to find out how money can best be used to regenerate soil, people, local communities, and ecosystems. He is currently a member engagement manager of Toniic, the global community of dynamic and active impact investors. Previously Koen supported Aqua-Spark, an impact investing fund focused on sustainable aquaculture companies.

In this conversation, John and Koen discuss:

  • Current investment activity in agriculture

  • The role of capital in regenerative adoption

  • Regenerative practices and topics attractive to investors

  • Regenerating the water cycle at a local ecosystem level

  • The benefits of nutrient absorption through foliage

  • The need for education in the finance world

  • Areas of opportunities for growers today

  • Increasing consumer interest through nutrient density

To learn more about Koen and the "Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food" podcast, please visit: https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/

Additional Resources

About John Kempf
John Kempf is the founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture (AEA). A top expert in biological and regenerative farming, John founded AEA in 2006 to help fellow farmers by providing the education, tools, and strategies that will have a global effect on the food supply and those who grow it.

Through intense study and the knowledge gleaned from many industry leaders, John is building a comprehensive systems-based approach to plant nutrition – a system solidly based on the sciences of plant physiology, mineral nutrition, and soil microbiology.

Support For This Show & Helping You Grow
Since 2006, AEA has been on a mission to help growers become more resilient, efficient, and profitable with regenerative agriculture. 

AEA works directly with growers to apply its unique line of liquid mineral crop nutrition products and biological inoculants. Informed by cutting-edge plant and soil data-gathering techniques, AEA's science-based programs empower farm operations to meet the crop quality markers that matter the most. 

AEA has created real and lasting change on millions of acres with its products and data-driven services by working hand-in-hand with growers to produce healthier soil, stronger crops, and higher profits.

Beyond working on the ground with growers, AEA leads in regenerative agriculture media and education, producing and distributing the popular and highly-regarded Regenerative Agriculture Podcast, inspiring webinars, and other educational content that serve as go-to resources for growers worldwide.

Learn more about AEA's regenerative programs and products: https://www.advancingecoag.com/

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VIDEO: To learn more from John Kempf about regenerative agriculture, watch this conversation between John and three AEA grower partners about how regenerative agriculture is changing lives and conventional farming: https://youtu.be/n9U6GwbYPDk

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, friends. I'm back with Cohen again. We are having a follow-up conversation that is being recorded several weeks after we had our initial conversation. I can't, I think you're really going to enjoy listening to the discussion that we had on the impacts of capital agriculture. But we're back to talk about our crowd fund raising around

0:21.1

that we are doing at advancing eco-agriculture.

0:23.6

I'm quite excited about it.

0:25.1

It's really an opportunity for us to participate

0:27.1

with the community.

0:28.1

So Cohen, really glad to have you back here

0:30.6

to have this conversation.

0:32.6

You know, as I grew up in an Amish community,

0:36.6

and as I've developed more of a perspective on how society at large works as compared to what I grew up with, I've come to gain a deep appreciation for the power of community and what it really means to be a community to contribute to each other's work and to participate with each other's work and

1:00.0

Many people around the world or at least here in North America that I see don't don't get to experience that anymore

1:07.0

They don't get to really deeply appreciate and understand what it means to have

1:13.6

symbiotic and collaborative relationships with the people around them. So this is really beautiful.

1:17.6

No, absolutely. It's interesting. We opened the follow-up conversation, obviously.

1:23.6

We don't talk about the current campaign because it wasn't live yet but now we get to frame it a bit

1:30.7

before you go into that before we go and we take you listeners into that but I would love to

1:35.8

in this in this short piece before flip the conversation a bit and ask you a few questions

1:42.8

and I think the first one is why take the,

1:46.3

not saying difficult route, but definitely open and transparent route,

1:49.6

because in this campaign you can see everything.

1:51.9

You can see the data.

1:53.0

You can look behind the scenes of your company.

1:55.9

And why did you take that route?

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