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From crop to capital 🌾 The Vital Farmland Fund III on Alto Marketplace gives investors the potential to grow their portfolio through sustainable farmland. Discover if farmland is the right investment for you at https://lnkd.in/ggQxQAFP

🌱 Exciting news from our portfolio: today in Luxembourg, HeavyFinance and European Investment Fund (EIF) signed a portfolio guarantee of €10.5m to support small and medium-sized farms on their journey to more sustainable agriculture. This strategic collaboration, supported by the InvestEU programme, will help provide around €15M in new debt financing for approximately 550 farmers in Poland and Lithuania, allowing them to adopt more sustainable farming practices and contribute to the EU's green transition goals. 🌱🌍 First-of-its-kind EIF portfolio guarantee marks a crucial step in funding the farmers who fight climate change. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dnMRewjb

Coming back from Beef Australia it is clear that the industry continues to innovate, grow and offer abundant opportunities for those who live and work in agriculture. In the area of farm production economics many producers business focus has evolved beyond the traditional levers of capital appreciation and operating returns. Today, there is a growing recognition of the significance of natural capital, encompassing elements such as soil carbon, environmental plantings, biodiversity, and renewables. This paradigm shift will underscore a fundamental change in how we perceive agricultural economic contributions, emphasizing the vital role that sustainable practices and the preservation of our natural resources play in driving long-term prosperity and growth for landowners. It was a great conversation with Jackson Hewett about Impact Ag Partners, our industry and natural capital. The Regional PR Co. #bestofbeef #beef24 #farmsofthefuture #naturebasedsolutions #naturalcapital #regenerativeagriculture #biodiversity #soilhealth #australianagriculture

Without bees, the delicate balance of the earth's ecosystem, and with it global food supplies, would be in jeopardy 🐝🌍 This is how venture capital support from European Investment Fund (EIF) helped an ex-IT engineer create Apiary Book, a solution to address the challenges of modern beekeeping and support communication between beekeepers, associations, farmers, universities, researchers and local authorities ⬇️ 🎥 https://lnkd.in/egierzrm #VentureCapital #ADifferentAngle #VCimpact

We are excited to welcome TRACT to the Working Capital Fund portfolio! Fragmented sustainability data is a chronic pain point for corporations seeking to operate ethical and sustainable supply chains and Tract offers a unique opportunity to influence sustainability reporting at scale across commodities with well documented risks of labor exploitation. Historically siloed data has obfuscated visibility into labor and environmental conditions of upstream suppliers and forced suppliers to allocate an extensive amount of time filling in redundant forms.  Tract is positioned to help solve this problem as a platform designed by and for industry leaders to align around standardized methodologies, metrics, and schemas. Under the expert leadership of CEO Allison Kopf, Tract will aim to unlock customers' ability to navigate, oversee, and share sustainability data. We are pleased to join Rabo Investments along with existing investors Cargill, Louis Dreyfus Company, ADM and Olam in the effort to drive supply chain transformation in key agricultural commodities. 

At Impatience Earth, we've been working with innocent drinks for the last two years, and are really proud to see them re-launch their Farmer Innovation Fund. Through the fund, we're trying to show (and learn!) what it really looks like to run a farmer-led fund, to derisk an agricultural transition, to have trust in and collaborate with your suppliers, and that it is possible to be driven by carbon reduction aims, but do so more holistically and centred on justice. I'm biased, of course, but think it's a really exciting opportunity to experiment with how philanthropic capital can be used as risk capital within a business, and work towards a longer term vision of creating a model of how to source produce that is low in carbon, high in biodiversity, and supportive for farmer livelihoods.

WE'RE GIVING UP TO £1 MILLION IN GRANTS TO OUR FARMERS In case you haven’t noticed, we’re big fans of fruit and veg. Huge. Can’t get enough of the stuff. If fruit and veg put on a concert, we’d be getting escorted off the premises for trying to get on stage.     As a B Corp business who squishes, juices and blends loads of it, we know we’ve got a responsibility to make sure there’s plenty of it for generations to come. That means growing it in a way that’s better for us, our farmers and the planet.  Drumroll at your desk, please. In comes our Farmer Innovation Fund.    It’s a £1 million pot of money, and it’s here to help the heroes growing our ingredients switch to regenerative farming. In other words, funding projects around things like low-carbon farming, more biodiversity and better livelihoods.  Our farmers pitch clever projects and if their pitch wins, they use the fund to trial practices that protect and improve soil health, cut emissions or the amount of water we use. All the good stuff we need to keep fruit and veg coming for years and years (and years and years. You get the picture).     We’ve set our sights on a pretty lofty target - halving the carbon footprint created by growing and moving the stuff we put into our drinks by 2030. And we’re hopeful the Farmer Innovation Fund plays a big part in getting us there.     We’ll be announcing the winners in June, so keep your eyes peeled and head to the page below for more. https://lnkd.in/eF_ffGti

I deeply believe that transitioning to Regenerative Agriculture needs committment and investment from the whole value chain and farmer-centric innovation.

Great that you are on board and support our mission, Carol Cueva Camacho! Carol is the Founder of Cueva Consulting Group, a strategic advisory and business excellence boutique consulting firm; where investors can find an ally to support their portfolio start-ups with needs on coaching for growth and operative strategies, and established companies can find a partner in preparation and implementation for their growth and innovation goals. Matthias Trost, Greg Zavorotniy, BayWa r.e. Energy Ventures, Jochen Hauff, Stephanie Race, Stefano Cruccu, Richard Delevan, VentureCapital Magazin, David Hunt, Ivonne Briceño Julia Bauer, Britta Muzyk - Tikovsky, Florian Hempel, Dr. Sonja Stuchtey, Richard Youngman #wildfireprevention #floodprevention #urbanresilience #desalination #reflectivecoatings #foodsecurity #waterusage #regenerativeagriculture #biodiversity #climateadaptation #climateresilience #climatejustice #adaptyourworld

Congratulations to Rainbow Chickens on listening on the Jse. I have been following their growth and investments into the private sector over the last few years,and have experienced first hand the impact they made on some of my clients agriculture business. Good luck and to many more years of growth and feeding the nation. If you would like the opportunity to explore business modeling and find out how I can assist in building and structuring your business and wealth feel free to dm to schedule an appointment. #internationalwealthmangment. https://lnkd.in/dXfEG2_D