{"id":34957,"date":"2024-04-02T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T04:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=34957"},"modified":"2024-04-02T09:48:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T13:48:07","slug":"investments-in-regenerative-organic-agriculture-from-private-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2024\/04\/investments-in-regenerative-organic-agriculture-from-private-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Capital Invests in &#8220;Regenerative Organic&#8221; Agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<em>Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, April 2, 2024) There is a nascent capital investment effort in the transition to certified organic agriculture beginning to take hold across the U.S., something advocates say is critically needed to meet the current and escalating existential health threats, biodiversity decline, and climate emergency. <a href=\"https:\/\/madagriculture.org\/\">Mad Agriculture<\/a> has received early commitments from the Rockefeller Foundation, Builders Vision, and nearly a dozen other investors to contribute to the $50 million Perennial Fund II (PFII), to advance the growth of \u201cregenerative organic\u201d agriculture. <em>Forbes<\/em> is reporting that PFII\u2019s primary objective is to jumpstart the organic land transition, given that this slice of U.S. agriculture makes up less than one percent of total farmland in the country relative to the <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2024\/01\/planting-the-seeds-of-change-context-for-why-the-european-union-struggles-to-meet-2030-organic-farming-target\/\">European Union\u2019s<\/a> nearly 10 percent of total farmland. \u201cWe commend the work of Mad Agriculture in harnessing the spirit of organic agriculture and mobilizing the private sector to invest in farmers who engage in regenerative organic agricultural practices,\u201d said Max Sano, organic program associate at Beyond Pesticides. In Rockefeller Foundation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockefellerfoundation.org\/news\/rockefeller-foundation-invests-in-mad-capitals-50-million-perennial-fund-ii-to-scale-u-s-regenerative-organic-agriculture\/\">press release<\/a> announcing their early commitment, Mad Capital co-founder Brandon Welch spoke on their vision: \u201cWe are aiming to build a bridge between two distant worlds that need one another to transition our food system \u2013 Wall Street and organic farmers&#8230;Providing farmers with access to capital gives humanity a shot at producing an abundance of healthy food while being ecologically accountable to our working lands and those that steward them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mad Agriculture is an agricultural finance nonprofit with the specific goal of investing in the regenerative organic farmland transition in the United States. Their name is inspired by \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/madagriculture.org\/about\/mad-farmer\">Mad Farmer<\/a>\u201d poems from twentieth-century rural agricultural advocate and writer Wendell Berry, who warned the nation of the economic, health, and environmental consequences of farmland destruction. Mad Agriculture has four main initiatives: Mad Capital, Mad Lands, Mad Markets, and Mad Revolution. While <a href=\"https:\/\/madcapital.com\/\">Mad Capital<\/a> is their investment fundraising arm, <a href=\"https:\/\/madagriculture.org\/mad-lands\">Mad Lands<\/a> engages in business planning support for existing regenerative organic farmers providing services including impact assessments and stewardship consultancies to ensure that they are leading with ecologically beneficial practices. Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/madagriculture.org\/mad-revolution\">Mad Revolution<\/a> provides educational resources and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madmarkets.com\/\">Mad Markets<\/a> is their newest initiative with more information to be released soon. Currently, the organization supports 79,115 acres in 14 different states. While their land portfolio is small relative to <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2024\/03\/regenerative-agriculture-still-misses-the-mark-in-defining-a-path-to-a-livable-future\/\">corporate commitments<\/a> of millions in acreage to <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2024\/03\/regenerative-agriculture-still-misses-the-mark-in-defining-a-path-to-a-livable-future\/\">regenerative agriculture<\/a> (not certified organic) from corporations such as <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/category\/corporations\/general-mills\/\">General Mills<\/a>, Walmart, and Unilever, Mad Capital shares Beyond Pesticides&#8217; commitment to keeping organic strong in its <a href=\"https:\/\/invest.madcapital.com\/\">theory of change<\/a>, \u201cThe organic agriculture movement and certification (mainly for cropping systems) and holistic management (for livestock systems) provides a baseline of commitment to regeneration.\u201d Mad Capital has the goal of transitioning five million acres to regenerative organic agriculture by 2032, which aligns with Beyond Pesticides\u2019 mission to eliminate toxic petrochemical pesticides and fertilizer use from the food system by that same date.<\/p>\n<p>Mad Capital is not the only player in the game. Another firm to watch is <a href=\"https:\/\/iroquoisvalley.com\/\">Iroquois Valley<\/a> Farmland REIT, a B-corporation and real estate investment trust working in 19 states with over 60 farmers across 30,000 acres of land. \u201cThe Company is committed to scaling organic agriculture in the U.S. by getting more organic farmers on the land, funded by socially responsible investors,\u201d according to their website. Essentially, this real estate investment trust allows investors to share the financial risk that organic farmers would otherwise take on their own by investing a minimum $10,700 over a five-year investment period, with payments available to said investors in the form of dividends at the end of their investment cycle. <a href=\"https:\/\/iroquoisvalley.com\/invest\/reit\/\">See here<\/a> for more details on the structure of this real estate investment trust.<\/p>\n<p>In their latest <a href=\"https:\/\/iroquoisvalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2022-Public-Benefit-Report.pdf\">Public Benefit Report,<\/a> Iroquois Valley identified goals for various categories, including \u201cEnvironment: Where We Work,\u201d \u201cCustomers: Our Farmers,\u201d \u201cCommunity: Our Investors,\u201d \u201cWorkers: Our Staff,\u201d and \u201cGovernance: Our Board\u201d on page 11. They acquired a loan from the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) to expand their soil health survey capacity to better equip their member farmers. Additionally, they added &#8220;19 new entity investors and 79 new trust accounts\u201d into their portfolio in 2022 with the goal to continue this trajectory in 2023. It is important to note that just 55 percent of their total portfolio is certified organic as of 2022, yet 59 percent of the total production mix is devoted to cover crops \u2013demonstrating their interest in elevating soil health as a fixture of their investment strategy even though they are not yet at 100 percent organic. Additionally, there appears to be a prioritization toward uplifting younger and more diverse groups of farmers in their portfolio. For example, in 78 percent of their clients, women are in leadership roles, and a combined 71 percent of the farm owners are Generation Z and Millennial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegenerative farming without organic principles as a baseline can contribute to corporate greenwashing and misleading the public on sustainable agriculture,\u201d said Mr. Sano. <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2019\/09\/regenerative-agriculture-is-inhibited-by-toxic-pesticides-says-new-report-by-friends-of-the-earth\/\">Regenerative and no-till farmers can, and often do, continue to rely on petrochemical fertilizers and pesticides<\/a>, including glyphosate-based herbicide products that impose adverse health impacts, such as non-Hodgkin&#8217;s lymphoma, on farmers, farmworkers, frontline communities, and the broader public.<\/p>\n<p>Surveys collected in a 2019 Friends of the Earth report, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/foe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PecticidesSoilHealth_Final-1.pdf\">Pesticides and Soil Health<\/a><\/em>, \u201c&#8230; indicate that the majority of no-till farmers [in this study] rely on herbicides such as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/assets\/media\/documents\/pesticides\/factsheets\/bp-fact-glyosphate.082017.pdf\">glyphosate<\/a><\/u>, the active ingredient in Roundup. In fact, 86% of <em>No-Till Farmer<\/em> readers said they planned to plant Roundup Ready corn in 2017, while 80 percent planned to plant Roundup Ready soybeans, and some 92 percent planned to use glyphosate for weed control.\u201d In contrast, a comprehensive study released in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S095965262301836X\">Journal of Cleaner Production<\/a><\/em> in August 2023 identified <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2024\/03\/study-shows-organic-agriculture-mitigates-climate-crisis-in-contrast-to-conventional-agriculture\/\">the potential for organic agriculture to mitigate the impacts of agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions<\/a> in the fight to address the climate crisis, determining that \u201ca one percent increase in total farmland results in a 0.13 percent increase in GHG emissions, while a one percent increase in organic cropland and pasture leads to a decrease in emissions by about 0.06 percent and 0.007 percent, respectively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A 2019 publication from the International Monetary Fund, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imf.org\/en\/Publications\/fandd\/issues\/2019\/12\/farming-food-and-climate-change-batini\">Smart changes to how we farm and eat can have a huge impact on our planet<\/a>,\u201d quotes Rattan Lal of Ohio State University, a leading soil expert, who has calculated that \u201ca mere 2 percent increase in the carbon content of the planet\u2019s soils could offset 100 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While it is admirable that there are elements of private capital and elite financial institutions that acknowledge the contribution of synthetic pesticide and fertilizer dependency in conventional industrial agriculture in perpetuating and escalating the climate crisis, this is only one in a constellation of strategies needed\u2014not a silver bullet. Beyond Pesticides maintains that structural change is only possible through the grassroots mobilization of concerned parents, physicians, public officials, scientists, farmers, and the broader public. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/programs\/organic-agriculture\/keeping-organic-strong\">Keeping Organic Strong<\/a> to learn how to engage in the public comment period for the Spring 2024 NOSB meeting, of which the deadline to contribute a comment is April 3. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/resources\/lawns-and-landscapes\/tools-for-change\">Tools for Change<\/a> for a range of strategies, resources, and tips to initiate grassroots advocacy in your community, town, city, or state against pesticide use on lawns, public land, and farmland.<\/p>\n<p><em>All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jamiehailstone\/2024\/03\/20\/leading-investors-back-new-regenerative-organic-agriculture-fund\/?sh=d06323d4f7d8\"><em>Forbes<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Beyond Pesticides, April 2, 2024) There is a nascent capital investment effort in the transition to certified organic agriculture beginning to take hold across the U.S., something advocates say is critically needed to meet the current and escalating existential health threats, biodiversity decline, and climate emergency. Mad Agriculture has received early commitments from the Rockefeller Foundation, Builders Vision, and nearly a dozen other investors to contribute to the $50 million Perennial Fund II (PFII), to advance the growth of \u201cregenerative organic\u201d agriculture. Forbes is reporting that PFII\u2019s primary objective is to jumpstart the organic land transition, given that this slice of U.S. agriculture makes up less than one percent of total farmland in the country relative to the European Union\u2019s nearly 10 percent of total farmland. \u201cWe commend the work of Mad Agriculture in harnessing the spirit of organic agriculture and mobilizing the private sector to invest in farmers who engage in regenerative organic agricultural practices,\u201d said Max Sano, organic program associate at Beyond Pesticides. In Rockefeller Foundation\u2019s press release announcing their early commitment, Mad Capital co-founder Brandon Welch spoke on their vision: \u201cWe are aiming to build a bridge between two distant worlds that need one another to transition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,25,336,41,413,593,1,368,77],"tags":[865,1377,1457,470,673,1418,1260,1472,915,1342,639,857],"class_list":["post-34957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternativesorganics","category-corporations","category-general-mills","category-glyphosate","category-regenerative","category-soil-health","category-uncategorized","category-us-department-of-agriculture-usda","category-wal-mart","tag-farmer","tag-farmers","tag-farming","tag-glyphosate","tag-organic-agriculture","tag-organic-food-production","tag-organic-law","tag-private-capital","tag-regenerative-organic","tag-rural","tag-transformative-change","tag-united-states"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Private Capital Invests in &quot;Regenerative Organic&quot; 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