21 Renee Cheung, how to get institutional investors investing in regenerative agriculture

Founder of Bonterra Partners, a specialist working with investors to invest in regenerative agriculture. Welcome to Investing in Regenerative Agriculture, investing as if the planet mattered. Where I interview key players in the field of regenerative agriculture, people who are scaling up the sector by bringing in new money or scaling up the practises on the ground. This time I interviewed Renee Cheung, founder of www.bonterrapartners.com, a natural capital investment specialist. Renee works with investors to identify and invest in sustainable, profit-generating environmental and real asset strategies. We discussed what have been the developments in regenerative agriculture in the last years: - holistic grazing - cover-crops - no-till systems Progressive smaller HNIs are taking interest in regenerative agri holistic grazing management, key line farming, mixed cropping etc. The main challenges: - gap between the funds and the soil/ground - the need for more good risk/return deals - longer timeframe for most conservation practises to generate good returns Investment proposals have to be boring for large institutional investor investment committees to approve them. It is much easier to explain a large monoculture GMO corn/soy rotation or invest in feedlot cattle than a regenerative agriculture opportunity. Nature and regenerative agriculture are more complex thus more difficult to explain and get funded. Examples of interesting developments: Land Degradation Neutrality Fund of Mirova in Paris: www.mirova.com/en-INT/news/News/Launch-of-the-Land-Degradation-Neutrality-Fund EcoEntreprises Fund www.ecoenterprisesfund.com And Renee is working with Paul McMahon on a fund on regenerative sheep production in Chile: https://soundcloud.com/investinginregenerativeagriculture/interview-paul-mcmahon?in=investinginregenerativeagriculture/sets/interviews-investing-in Please hit the share button if you think this interview is relevant for someone you know! If you want to receive an email when I upload a new episode, subscribe here eepurl.com/cxU33P The above references an opinion and is for information purposes only. It is not intended to be investment advice. Seek a licensed professional for investment advice.