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A group of investors, funders, and farming organizations are partnering with nonprofit the TransCap Initiative (TCI) to design a new finance infrastructure for regenerative agriculture in the Midwestern US.<\/p>\n
Phase two of the \u201csystemic investing prototype\u201d will see participants designing a financial platform that can deploy multiple types of capital across the regenerative agriculture space.<\/p>\n
Both the Walton Family Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation are supporting the initiative, the second phase of which will last six months.<\/p>\n
Critically, the initiative seeks to match the right capital with the right practices or interventions at the right time in order to finance the transition to regenerative agriculture at scale.<\/p>\n
The transition to regenerative food systems is not a series of siloed events. Rather, it\u2019s \u201ca whole ecosystem of capital solutions that need to come together in a strategically orchestrated way if we\u2019re actually to effect this transition at scale,\u201d Ivana Gazibara, the TCI\u2019s director of prototyping, said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s obviously quite a lot of money flowing into regen ag, and different kinds of money as well,\u201d she says. \u201cBut those different types of capital allocators are not talking to each other, despite the fact that, implicitly, everyone is working towards the same mission.\u201d<\/p>\n
For example, a farmer growing oats will find plenty of regenerative agriculture programs\u2014from nonprofits, corporates, and others\u2014that will provide technical assistance for transitioning to certain practices in the field such as no till or cover cropping.<\/p>\n
But the transition itself costs money.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you provide the technical assistance, you also need to think about providing the loans and the grants that can enable farmers to affect that transition in a way that still makes for a viable farming operation,\u201d explains Gazibara.<\/p>\n
Things don\u2019t stop there. All of this requires insurance products favorable to regen ag practices, which are few and far between at the moment, not to mention storage facilities and supply chains that support the product, appropriate purchasing agreements, and, of course, a market for the end product.<\/p>\n
This complex series of dependencies require \u201ca whole ecosystem of capital solutions,\u201d notes Gazibara.<\/p>\n
More than that, it requires those solutions to come together in a strategic, orchestrated way, if financing models are to be deployed at scale\u2014in and beyond the Midwest.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know that we\u2019re doing this work in the Midwest, but I actually believe this to be true in other regions and other agricultural contexts as well,\u201d she notes.<\/p>\n
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