322 Nettie Wiebe - We have become monocultural in our fields and minds

Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food

A conversation with Nettie Wiebe, organic farmer and long-time small farm activist in Canada and globally, one of the founders of La Via Campesina, part of the IPES food panel, and coauthor of the recent Land Squeeze report. We talk about land purchases and prices. In many places, over 70% of the farmland is controlled by 1% of the farms. This is just one of the many challenges the latest Land Squeeze report of the IPES food panel addresses. We talk about the results of the report and what to do about it, how go get speculative money out of farming and why green grabbing needs to stop.

Land squeeze: one of the biggest issues in regenerative farming is access to land. Why is that? Farmers in the global industrialised north are ageing, and many of them don’t have a next generation taking over the farm; many other people would love to farm and are, in many cases, able, but can never finance the land purchase because land prices and value are completely disconnected. They face competition from ever larger industrial extractive, well financed farms.
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Capitole

1. 322 Nettie Wiebe - We have become monocultural in our fields and minds (00:00:00)

2. Why are you doing what you are doing? Why Soil? (00:02:40)

3. What should smart investors, who want to invest in reg ag and food look out for? (00:35:42)

4. What would you do if you were in charge of a 1B investment portfolio tomorrow morning? (00:41:18)

5. If you could wave a magic wand and change one thing in the agriculture industry from a sustainability point of view, what would it be? (00:46:06)