323 Chuck de Liedekerke - Paying 1600 farmers to change their practices and just raised €15M

Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food

A check-in with Chuck de Liedekerke, CEO and co-founder of Soil Capital and one of the veterans of the regen space, whom we interviewed almost 6 years ago! We talk about paying farmers for ecosystem services and why they seem to have hit an inflection point in the last two years. Working with over 1600 farmers to get them paid for carbon and more through corporations that buy from them. Corporates in the food space finally start to wake up to the opportunity and necessity of investing in their supply shed. And to top it off, we talk about water cycles and landscape-scale regeneration!
Last week Soil Capital has completed its €15M Series B funding round.
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1. 323 Chuck de Liedekerke - Paying 1600 farmers to change their practices and just raised €15M (00:00:00)

2. Why are you doing what you are doing? Why Soil? (00:02:45)

3. What should smart investors, who want to invest in reg ag and food look out for? (01:04:01)

4. What would you do if you were in charge of a 1B investment portfolio tomorrow morning? (01:07:15)

5. What do you believe is true about regenerative agriculture that others don’t believe to be true? Inspired by John Kempf (01:15:04)

6. If you could wave a magic wand and change one thing in the agriculture industry from a sustainability point of view, what would it be? (01:20:45)