442 Francisco Roque de Pinho – Don't say regenerative if you want to raise capital
What if the best argument for regenerative agriculture isn't the planet, but the profit? Francisco Roque de Pinho didn't set out to become a...
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441 Jacob Israelow - Leaving Goldman to Invest $80M in Regenerative Farmland with Dirt Capital
Jacob Israelow is the founder of Dirt Capital Partners, an investment platform that partners with regenerative farmers and ranchers to help...
440 Christian Holzleitner - How EU regulation could unlock the soil carbon market for European farmers and investors
Five years ago, many people in the regenerative agriculture space thought that simply paying farmers for soil carbon storage would rewire th...
439 Farm data can and will be used against you - Live from Groundswell 2026
Only 4% of Benedikt Bösel's customers scanned the QR code on their meat — even though that code would have shown them the life of the specif...
438 Eric Smith - How nutrient quality data rewires the food system
Eric Smith is the founder of Edacious, a company building the infrastructure to make food quality and nutrient density measurable, objective...
437 Abby Rose - Storytelling in Regenerative Agriculture: Who Funds Stories That Shift Systems?
Abby Rose is an experienced agricultural storyteller, co-host of the award-winning podcast Farmerama Radio, and co-founder of the soil monit...
436 Erica Gies - Water always wins, and we can still cool the planet if we let it
Water always wins. The question is whether we let it cool the planet while it does — or keep fighting it until there's nothing left to fight...
435 Gonzalo Úrculo - Inside Crowdfarming’s model of 500,000 customers and 350 farmers
An orange farm near Valencia, abandoned for a decade, a family debt, and a website. Seventeen years later: 500,000 customers, 350 partner fa...
434 Marc Leiber - 200 euros, 160,000 trees, and how to build a syntropic paradise from scratch
200 euros in a bank account, no contract, and a vision. Six and a half years later: 160,000 trees, a soil temperature at 15cm depth of a con...
433 Dimitri Tsitos - Three years of R&D in intensive almonds: can you really do regen?
Dimitri Tsitos, co-founder of Agrosystemic, left Greece a decade ago, spent years working across European farming systems, and eventually la...
432 João Valente - 26 years no-till, outcompeting monocultures, and now teaching his neighbours
João Valente, owner of Monte Silveira, took over his family farm in central-eastern Portugal that was running on tobacco, broccoli, and melo...
431 Diogo Pinho - Why Europe's largest silvopasture system is collapsing and how grazing fixes it
Diogo Pinho started his scientific career in the first DNA sequencing lab in Portugal, then did a hands-on PhD on the soil microbiome of cor...
430 Lara Espirito Santo - Source the cream, not the butter: fixing food waste through regen sourcing
Lara Espírito Santo grew up shuttling between Rio de Janeiro and her father’s industrial farms in Paraguay and Brazil, traded a planned care...
429 Raiza Rezende - Closing the gap between soil health and human health
Brazilian-trained chemical engineer, Raiza Rezende left a career path lined up by petroleum, gas, and pharmaceutical companies to study synt...
428 John Gilliland - Why a top UK regen farmer hasn't sold his carbon yet
John Gilliland is a sixth-generation UK farmer and advocate for sustainable agriculture with a legacy in policy, academia, and innovation. A...
427 James Barrett - Europe has a water retention problem
Europe doesn't have a water problem. The rain still falls; we've just spent a few hundred years engineering it off the land as fast as we ca...
426 Ivana Gazibara - Deploy $1.4 billion in catalytic capital to transform the Midwest agricultural system
The Midwest: 140 million acres of corn and soybeans, rural economies slowly dying, a system with no real long-term future in terms of soil o...
425 Daniel Vidal - How to build a zero-waste restaurant with deep ancestral Mexican roots
Daniel Vidal, head chef of Baldío, LATAM's first zero-waste restaurant, joined Koen in the kitchen in Mexico City to talk about what it actu...
424 Benedetta Kyengo - The Green Revolution stole her paradise, now she's bringing it back through syntropic agroforestry
As a child in Nairobi, Benedetta Kyengo spent holidays climbing trees and eating mangoes and papayas at her grandmother's food forest in eas...
423 Chris Locke - Fermentation is the future of food
Fermentation is the oldest food technology on earth. It happens in our guts, in the soil, in every cup of coffee and most restaurants still...