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RFSI News is an online news source covering the latest developments in regenerative agriculture and food investment.

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Here you’ll find updates on the investment deals, on-going research, curated news from around the industry and insight from the players already operating in the space.


Regen Food Systems Investing: Q2 2024 Round-Up

Nearly every week, RFSI News curates the latest news in regenerative agriculture and food systems investing, plus shares some stories of our own along the way, covering the latest strategies, players, challenges and opportunities that exist in the space. RFSI tracks investments and other capital allocations into regenerative agriculture and ...
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Dirt Capital Hits $30M Close for Impact-First Farmland Fund Along Pathway to $50M

Dirt Capital Partners, a real asset impact investment company with a unique focus on improving farmer access to land, has raised more than $30 million upon the third close of its latest impact first farmland fund. Investors include the Schmidt Family Foundation, Cienega Capital, The Woodcock Foundation, DF Impact Capital, ...
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Brief: Nature Tech Start-Up, Natcap, Raises $10M Series A from André Hoffman, Yeo Ventures, Pelican Ag and Others

Natural Capital Research Limited (Natcap) has raised $10 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round. New funding comes from André Hoffmann, Norinchukin Capital, Yeo Ventures, and Pelican Ag. Former CEO of Refinitiv David Craig also participated, and the fundraise also includes follow-on investments from Oxford Science Enterprises, funds advised ...
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Merge Impact Launches Groundbreaking Platform for Organic and Regenerative Agriculture

Merge Impact, a sustainable agriculture software and data management solutions company, has launched Merge Marketplace to address significant data needs in the regenerative crop space. The innovative platform is designed to revolutionize the $185 billion organic and regenerative agriculture markets by introducing tools and strategies focused on embedding fundamental market ...
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Insights from the First WTF2 Meet-Up

Earlier this week, RFSI held the first Women Transforming Food & Finance meet-up in Boulder, Colorado, in partnership with Robyn O’Brien of Montcalm. The goal was to bring women working in all corners of the agriculture, food and finance systems in the region together to learn, build community, and elevate ...
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Regen Food Systems Investing: Q1 2024 Round-Up

Nearly every week, RFSI News curates the latest news in regenerative agriculture and food systems investing, plus shares some stories of our own along the way, covering the latest strategies, players, challenges and opportunities that exist in the space. This week, we are bringing you our first quarterly round-up of ...

Miraterra Closes Seed Funding Round Led by At One Ventures, with Participation from S2G Ventures, Pelican Ag, Others

Soil measurement technology company, Miraterra, has closed a Seed funding round led by At One Ventures. The Vancouver, British Columbia-based company focuses on affordable soil measurement that can help unlock access to soil carbon markets and seeks to move regenerative and precision agriculture forward with their novel technology. A Solution ...
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Meet RFSI’s Newest Team Member

Regenerative Food Systems Investment (RFSI) is excited to welcome Bjorn Broekman to the team as our Relationship Manager & Sales Lead. With a background in facilitating industry collaboration around sustainability initiatives and managing accounts and projects for large-scale agricultural businesses, Bjorn took a unique journey to the regenerative space. Bjorn ...

5 Ways to Invest in the Stewards of Our Soil & Why It’s a No Brainer

The agriculture system is unique because it is deeply intertwined with so many other systems – food, finance, climate, policy – and at each level of society: local, regional, national and global. As a result, the way we operate agricultural systems can have unintended consequences far beyond the system itself ...
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Harvesting Crops, or Harvesting Insurance? How the USDA’s Crop Insurance Policy is Preventing a Regenerative Transition

As we emerge from yet another winter of record-breaking weather extremes, the global focus on food systems is justifiably intensifying. Regenerative agriculture continues to gain momentum as a solution to our climate woes – and many other issues, too, like social justice, improving farmer livelihoods, and revitalizing rural economies. As ...
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