Best Koen van Seijen Podcasts (2024)

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319 Mark Lewis – After putting half of their $50M fund to work in regen, what does one of the leading VCs in the world has learned? 1:09:22

1h ago1:09:22

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A check-in interview with Mark Lewis, managing partner at Trailhead Capital, about the inevitability of the "regenerative revolution" and the potential for significant financial and non-financial returns in this space. What does putting almost half of your $50 million VC fund to work in businesses active in the regen space in North America, teach y…

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318 Clare Hill and Annie Rayner - The counter-narrative to industrialised chicken: what does it mean to produce deeply regenerative chicken and eggs? 1:03:06

2h ago1:03:06

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A conversation with Annie Rayner and Clare Hill, founders of Planton Farm, Roots to Regeneration and Impeckable Poultry, experts in poultry welfare and regenerative agriculture transition pioneers in the UK. We discuss where to start when you want to integrate livestock as a farmer. Many would say poultry, but there are a lot of issues, from lockdo…

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317 Willem Ferwerda - Kickstarted the restoration industry with Commonland 11 years ago, now finally big money shows interest, but we need billions 1:12:32

7d ago1:12:32

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A conversation with Willem Ferwerda, one of the founders of the regeneration space, which barely existed 11 years ago when he started Commonland. How and why is it so fundamental to take a landscape view and get all the stakeholders to look at a map- yes, a physically printed large map- together? Because chances are they never have done that. The f…

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316 Alf Gøran Knutsen – The good, bad and opportunities of the multi million dollar salmon industry, from shooting lasers under water to feed 1:07:38

7d ago1:07:38

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Salmon: there isn’t a more contagious topic within aquaculture than salmon farming. With Alf Gøran Knutsen, CEO of Kvaroy, a leader in the world of sustainable salmon farming, we discuss the opportunities to grow a potentially very sustainable source of protein and omega-3 in a way that makes sense. We explore the fascinating world of salmon, mostl…

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315 Felipe Pasini - Walking the land of Amadeco Syntropic Farm with regenerative farmer 1:20:49

23d ago1:20:49

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What if you could turn a dry, water-scarce plot of land into a thriving ecosystem? In this new episode of Walking the Land with a Regenerative Farmer we follow the journey of Felipe Pasini, as we explore his transformative work on the Amadeco farm in Depressa, Salento, Puglia. Through syntropic farming - also known as syntropic agroforestry or succ…

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314 Sowmya Balendiran - How to turn seaweed farming into an industry? Start by farming 1000 football fields of tropical seaweed in Indonesia 1:05:09

21d ago1:05:09

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A conversation with Sowmya Balendiran, co-founder and chief business officer at Sea6 Energy, about regenerative aquaculture, how to restore the oceans and use them more to reduce the pressure on land systems, get fossil fuel use down drastically, like in fertiliser, plastics, and in food of course. Sowmya is one of the pioneers who helped create th…

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313 Jay Albany - Despite the graveyard of D2C companies, it can work in the world’s most remote city 1:48:48

25d ago1:48:48

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A conversation with Jay Albany, CEO of Dirty Clean Food, about what it takes to build a successful direct-to-consumer business- basically buying from regen farmers and delivering to consumer, restaurants, etc.- in the regen space and in the most remote city on the planet. Despite all challenges of B2C, Jay makes a passionate case for the contrary. …

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312 Maarten van Dam – How to fund the transition of the first pioneers in regenerative agriculture 1:08:17

1M ago1:08:17

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A conversation with Maarten van Dam, founder of Schevichoven Regenerative farm, about numbers when transitioning from conventional to regenerative agriculture and keeping records on inputs, prices, and machinery. Maarten is keeping a lot of records of their pioneering farm transitioning from a mono dairy farm to a diverse agroforestry system. Remem…

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Fireside Chat with John Kempf & Koen van Seijen @ Groundswell '24 58:13

1M ago58:13

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Ever wondered how podcasting can transform the field of regenerative agriculture? This fire side chat with John Kempf and Koen van Seijen, hosts of the most followed and longest existing podcasts in the regenerative agriculture and food space, was recorded live at Groundswell 2024. This is an intimate conversation where we dive deep in the the long…

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311 Henk Mooiweer - If you can get paid now by Nestlé, Shell and Microsoft to change grazing practices, why wait? 1:13:47

1M ago1:13:47

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A conversation with Henk Mooiweer, co-founder of Grassroots Carbon, about the current state of carbon markets, high quality soil carbon removal credits, how this company manage to sell 5 million dollars’ worth of them, and where the market is going. Why did Nestlé, Microsoft and Shell start buying? Why does Henk argue that now is the time to sign u…

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310 Jason Hayward-Jones - Corporates paying for low carbon grains and why virtual twins are key in gaming and Scottish whiskey 51:55

2M ago51:55

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A check-in interview with Jason Hayward-Jones, founder & director at REGENFARM Ltd., and Sustainable Agriculture Specialist at Cefitra, about why corporations are suddenly paying for low-carbon grain, the revolutionary impact of digital twins and satellite technology on sustainable farming practices and, finally, why it is connected with gaming and…

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309 Bridget Emmett – Moving over carbon soil compaction is the real issue in agriculture 58:50

2M ago58:50

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A conversation with Bridget Emmett, a principal scientist at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and a board member of the EU Mission Soil. Bridget shares her inspiring journey from a passionate botany student to a leading soil scientist, revealing the critical, yet often overlooked, intricacies of soil health. We explore its complex structure,…

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308 Georg Baunach - More than half of the fish you eat is farmed: basics, potential and risks of investing in aquaculture 1:22:41

2M ago1:22:41

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A conversation with Georg Baunach, managing partner and co-founder of Hatch Blue, a knowledge-driven aquaculture and alternative seafood specialist. We discuss what aquaculture is and why it is important; what, where, and how to farm; what are the potential and challenges of regenerative aquaculture, and why is it important to look into it. We end …

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307 Kat Bruce - Going from putting insects in a food processor to raising $27M in 10 years and building the biggest eDNA biodiversity monitoring company 1:18:26

2M ago1:18:26

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A conversation with Kat Bruce, founder of Nature Metrics , going from scooping insects with a small net and putting them in a food processor, to analysing the goo with an EDNA machine, to working with lots of large food corporations on measuring their biodiversity, food footprint, and impact. How do you look back at raising 27 million dollars and s…

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306 Fernando Russo - From selling Playboy's to growing coffee, cacao, credit and lots of cows 1:34:59

2M ago1:34:59

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A deep dive conversation with Fernando Russo about the reasons why he is going deep into coffee and cacao without being a coffee drinker and how he turned from being a Playboy’s salesman and a travel entrepreneur to an impact investor in the regenerative agriculture and food. We also talk about fashion and heights, the Amazon, deforestation, refore…

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305 Scott Poynton – Crises drive change: stories from within the transformation of Nestlé's palm oil value chain 1:36:42

3M ago1:36:42

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A conversation with Scott Poynton, founder of the Forest Trust, now known as the Earthworm Foundation, about supply chains, environmental regeneration and addressing environmental scandals from the forests of rural Australia to his groundbreaking work with major corporations like Nestlé on no-deforestation commitments. Scott’s experiences in Vietna…

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304 Henry Dimbleby - Biodiversity on balance sheet, role and risks of gene editing and AI and the case for less meat 1:03:49

3M ago1:03:49

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This is the second part of a wider conversation with Henry Dimbleby, founder of Bramble Partners and LEON Restaurants (please find the first below as episode 303). We continue our deep dive into the three compartment model and we discuss what should we grow where and why, the invisibility of nature and why biodiversity is not on the balance sheet. …

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303 Henry Dimbleby - From designing the National Food Strategy for England to starting a £50M fund focussed on food transition 51:47

3M ago51:47

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A wide range conversation of almost two hours- second episode will follow soon- with Henry Dimbleby, founder of Bramble Partners, a venture capital firm, that invests in businesses seeking to improve food security. Before Bramble Partners, Henry co-founded Leon Restaurants and the Sustainable Restaurant Association and also served deep in the heart…

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302 Jonas Steinfeld – The many shades of green of agroforestry systems 1:10:59

3M ago1:10:59

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A conversation with Jonas Steinfeld, a researcher and consultant based in Brazil specialising in agroforestry systems, about the many different levels of complexity in agroforestry. Does complexity lead to more or less work? Does complexity lead to more or less carbon storage, and why? And are complex agroforestry systems more profitable? The scien…

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301 Yasmine Cathell on nutrient quality bio stimulants, microalgae and other random but world changing regen trivia 1:07:37

3M ago1:07:37

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A check-in conversation with Yasmine Cathell in which we discuss everything from why we should focus on solutions that work for all farmers, not just regen organic, to the reduction of bio stimulants on farm or off farm, microalgae, nutrient density, and quality. Why does it all start in the soil? And we finish up with a masterclass on smelling soi…

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300 Koen van Seijen's journey into regenerative food and agriculture and introducing the Generation-Re investment syndicate 1:35:00

3M ago1:35:00

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Koen van Seijen settles into the guest chair for a special 300th episode celebration and is interviewed by Naeem Lakhani and Antony Yousefian. It's fascinating how a simple curiosity about food led down the rabbit hole into the rich ecosystem of soil, carbon and regenerative agriculture. Starting from a coffee with Tony Lovell of SLM Partners, we r…

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299 Cameron Frayling - Forget biodiversity credits (for now). Regen ag farm land funds and regulation are driving the biodiversity sector 1:07:40

4M ago1:07:40

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A check in conversation with Cameron Frayling, CEO of Pivotal Earth, about biodiversity, one of the most important sets of things we should track and measure, and yet it is super difficult and mostly hasn’t been done until now at scale at all. The data is simply not there, so what do we do? With Cameron we check in with one of the leading companies…

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298 Dan Kittredge – Local, regenerative and organic have no connection to nutrient density, soil health does 1:10:52

4M ago1:10:52

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A long-overdue check-in interview with Dan Kittredge, founder of the Bionutrient Food Association. We discuss their involvement in the revolutionary beef study, all the research they have been doing and where they have been showing absolutely no connection between the labels, local, organic, regenerative, farmer's market, etc., and nutrient density…

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297 Chris Henggeler - Standing on the shoulders of giants (Savory, Ingham, Provenza) and managing over 77000 hectares in remote Australia 1:17:15

4M ago1:17:15

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A conversation with Chris Henggeler, a second-generation high-density, low-duration herder using herds for land management. From one of the most remote places in Australia, we explore big myths like many animals damage the land, to a huge question: can we actually put the new megafauna to work? Farms need to get smaller, and ranches need to get big…

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296 Jojo Mehta - Making ecocide a crime in less than 5 years and for less than 6 million dollars 1:11:37

4M ago1:11:37

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A conversation with Jojo Mehta, executive director of Stop Ecocide International, about making ecocide a crime, something you can get arrested for and end up in prison. How do we get it from a discussion in lawyer circles and academic circles into international criminal law? And why is it going much faster over the last 5 years than anyone has expe…

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319 Mark Lewis – After putting half of their $50M fund to work in regen, what does one of the leading VCs in the world has learned? 1:09:22

1
318 Clare Hill and Annie Rayner - The counter-narrative to industrialised chicken: what does it mean to produce deeply regenerative chicken and eggs? 1:03:06

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317 Willem Ferwerda - Kickstarted the restoration industry with Commonland 11 years ago, now finally big money shows interest, but we need billions 1:12:32

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316 Alf Gøran Knutsen – The good, bad and opportunities of the multi million dollar salmon industry, from shooting lasers under water to feed 1:07:38

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315 Felipe Pasini - Walking the land of Amadeco Syntropic Farm with regenerative farmer 1:20:49

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314 Sowmya Balendiran - How to turn seaweed farming into an industry? Start by farming 1000 football fields of tropical seaweed in Indonesia 1:05:09

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313 Jay Albany - Despite the graveyard of D2C companies, it can work in the world’s most remote city 1:48:48

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312 Maarten van Dam – How to fund the transition of the first pioneers in regenerative agriculture 1:08:17

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Fireside Chat with John Kempf & Koen van Seijen @ Groundswell '24 58:13

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311 Henk Mooiweer - If you can get paid now by Nestlé, Shell and Microsoft to change grazing practices, why wait? 1:13:47

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310 Jason Hayward-Jones - Corporates paying for low carbon grains and why virtual twins are key in gaming and Scottish whiskey 51:55

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309 Bridget Emmett – Moving over carbon soil compaction is the real issue in agriculture 58:50

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308 Georg Baunach - More than half of the fish you eat is farmed: basics, potential and risks of investing in aquaculture 1:22:41

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307 Kat Bruce - Going from putting insects in a food processor to raising $27M in 10 years and building the biggest eDNA biodiversity monitoring company 1:18:26

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306 Fernando Russo - From selling Playboy's to growing coffee, cacao, credit and lots of cows 1:34:59

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305 Scott Poynton – Crises drive change: stories from within the transformation of Nestlé's palm oil value chain 1:36:42

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304 Henry Dimbleby - Biodiversity on balance sheet, role and risks of gene editing and AI and the case for less meat 1:03:49

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303 Henry Dimbleby - From designing the National Food Strategy for England to starting a £50M fund focussed on food transition 51:47

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302 Jonas Steinfeld – The many shades of green of agroforestry systems 1:10:59

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301 Yasmine Cathell on nutrient quality bio stimulants, microalgae and other random but world changing regen trivia 1:07:37

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300 Koen van Seijen's journey into regenerative food and agriculture and introducing the Generation-Re investment syndicate 1:35:00

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299 Cameron Frayling - Forget biodiversity credits (for now). Regen ag farm land funds and regulation are driving the biodiversity sector 1:07:40

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298 Dan Kittredge – Local, regenerative and organic have no connection to nutrient density, soil health does 1:10:52

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297 Chris Henggeler - Standing on the shoulders of giants (Savory, Ingham, Provenza) and managing over 77000 hectares in remote Australia 1:17:15

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296 Jojo Mehta - Making ecocide a crime in less than 5 years and for less than 6 million dollars 1:11:37

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