With a sold-out crowd of more than 500 attendees, the 2024 RFSI Forum kicked off last week in Denver, Colorado. The program was packed with sessions to take attendees on a learning journey about the critical role of capital in building regenerative agriculture and food systems. From where we are ...

Agroforestry ecosystem builder, Propagate, has built the foundation for agroforestry expansion in the U.S. and is now seeing their efforts pay off. In the past seven years of business, the company has grown from a concept around bringing the benefits of agroforestry to the U.S., to having planted more than ...

Agriculture and food systems are central to humankind – influencing many of the things most critical to human well-being, including health and nutrition, the environment, climate, and community health. Farmers sit at the foundation of all of this and so their ability to be successful is of the utmost importance ...

Earlier this year, for the first time, Regenerative Food Systems Investment (RFSI) put out a call for pitch applications for the annual RFSI Forum, to be held October 9-10 in Denver. Together with partners, The First Thirty, RFSI aimed to find the hottest early-stage solutions for accelerating regeneration. In a ...

From farmer to food company, there is increasing market pressure for transparency across agriculture and food systems. Unfortunately, the existing supply chain has not been set up to offer this, so a transition to transparency will rely on data and technological solutions. One such solution is Merge Impact, founded in ...

There’s a new fund on the block. Terra Regenerative Capital has launched its first fund aimed at closing a major gap in the regenerative agricultural system: the often overlooked and underfunded middle supply chain. The Leaders Fund – aptly named for the systems leaders it aims to invest in – ...

Canopy Farm Management has launched a perennial crop investment vehicle, Second Story Farms LLC (2SF), to develop the next 1,000 acres of agroforestry in the Midwest. Backed by anchor investors - Zarpet Family Foundation, Zellis Family Foundation, and Matthew Zell Family Foundation - 2SF is targeting a $10 million raise ...

Regenerative food systems provide the key to unlocking solutions for interconnected challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, food and nutrition security, and income inequality. To create regenerative food futures, the world needs business and financial models that support sustainable, just, and secure food systems. Transformational Investing in Food Systems (TIFS) ...

The importance of impact as an investment imperative has never been stronger. Worldwide, the size of the impact investing market has surpassed $1 trillion under management – reaching an estimated $1.164 trillion in 2022, according to the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN).  It is also expected to experience double-digit growth ...

Agriculture & Natural Solutions Acquisition Corporation (ANSC), a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) backed by Riverstone Holdings and Impact Ag Partners that listed on the NASDAQ in November 2023, has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement for a business combination with the iconic Australian Food & Agriculture ...