17. Regenerative Agriculture as an Investment Opportunity, with Antony Yousefian
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My guest this week is Antony Yousefian, who is the Founding Partner of ReFi Ventures and Advisor to Tech Nation. Listen to Antony talk about how: Conventional intensive agriculture is extractive, while regenerative agriculture is better for food security, resilience and healthInnovation through regenerative agriculture can turn farming into a “hero industry” that reverses the destruction of nature’s ecoservicesEarly-stage investment and financial innovation (such as soil carbon credits) needs to help to fund the transition to regenerative agricultureAgTech (agricultural technology) can give us tools to measure nature’s services (like soil health and carbon cycling) and to quantify climate risksCultivating micro-proteins is a hundred times more energy efficient than the current farming system and five times more efficient than cell agricultureKey links Antony Yousefian (LinkedIn) ReFi Ventures (website) Thriving (book) Healers of the Earth (poem) Wayne Visser (website) Wayne Visser (LinkedIn)
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