Introducing Transition Finance for Farmers with Benedikt - a podcast by Koen van Seijen
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Koen van Seijen and Benedikt Bösel are the co-hosts of this special series dedicated to Transition Finance in regenerative agriculture and food.
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Koen van Seijen and Benedikt Bösel are the co-hosts of this special series dedicated to Transition Finance in regenerative agriculture and food.
In this series Koen is joined by Benedikt Bösel, owner of the Gut&Bösel farm (www.gutundboesel.org) and former Venture Capitalist with a focus on environmental technologies and AgTech startups. Follow them on their journey to find out what are the key principles of transition finance for regenerative farmers.
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Many farmers are ready to speed up their regenerative transition, they have looked for learning, done the courses, read the key books, hosted the gurus on their farms, explored farm size regenerative designs and, most importantly, started their pilots and feedback loops.
Farmers, though, are “stuck” in their production system, having to earn profits in order to pay bank annuities or earning enough income just to cover the costs of production.
Finding extra investments for trees and cover crops is simply not possible.This is where finding appropriate transition finance to speed up regenerative agriculture on farms is key.
A local bank loan often isn’t feasible because of the short duration, lack of flexibility and the farmers lack of collateral. Furthermore, there is a limit to how much equity a farmer is able or willing to give away.
That is why my co-host, aspiring to be regenerative farmer, Benedikt Bösel and I are interviewing leading practitioners in the regenerative agriculture and food finance space. They share their insights on how they would finance the speed up of the regenerative transition on Benedikt’s 1000 hectares - almost 2500 acres- farm in Germany, one hour from Berlin.
This is an open process. We don’t have the answers yet, just a lot of questions, so please share with us any examples of transition finance you have seen, other inspiration, people to interview, etc...
Find all interviews here:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/transition-finance-series.
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