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A Higher Price or the Highest Price? Inside the Forest Carbon Market

Wilder Person
January 26, 2021
  • Topics:
  • Blended Finance
  • Forest
  • Impact Investing
Huge corporations have promised to zero out their carbon impact, so prices for natural carbon sinks should see upward pressure starting now. Three forest carbon finance specialists thrash out three paths to success, navigating standards and science and the occasional drag that comes with creating a marketplace in the midst...
Cash flows and rivers flow

The Washington Farmland Trust, which crafted the Conservation Note, provided this image. 

Good Crops, Good Credit: How a Northwest Land Trust Sustains Farmland With Capital

Katie Michels
November 20, 2020
  • Topics:
  • Agriculture
  • Fresh Water
  • Habitat
  • Impact Investing
  • Land Conservation
  • Philanthropy
How does a farmer with no desire to keep growing crops become a catalyst for financial value and land preservation? The Washington Farmland Trust worked with a farmer at the end of his career to craft a financial package that would keep his land from developers, sustain ecosystem services, and...

Beyond Easements: Broader Approaches for Greater Conservation Outcomes

Michele Haynes
August 24, 2020
  • Topics:
  • Agriculture
  • Impact Investing
  • Land Conservation
  • Public Policy
Easements unlock value for landowners and preserve land for everyone else. With challenges to our ecosystem and economy coming faster and from more directions, conservation leaders need tools that apply more quickly or in quirkier situations. This toolkit looks over a range of techniques that extend conservation to situations where...

New Forest Carbon Offset Strategies Turn to Small Landowners for Big Impact

Marisa Repka
July 24, 2020
  • Topics:
  • Forest
  • Habitat
  • Impact Investing
Forest carbon offset companies see a source of credit, and value, in small forest owners. These owners, in turn, see offsets as a way to sustain their assets. What does this emerging field need to normalize about valuation, verification and communication to make deeper financial and ecological impact?
Copper Creek, courtesy the Conservation Fund, photo by Bill Mullens

How do you ascribe dollars to this? (Photo by Bill Mullins, courtesy the Conservation Fund)

Book Excerpt: Valuing Nature

William J. Ginn
May 19, 2020
  • Topics:
  • Blended Finance
  • Impact Investing
  • Public Policy
Island Press’ publication of Valuing Nature: A Handbook for by William Ginn comes 15 years after his first book helped launch what became the Network. While the lessons captured in prior works still ring true, the conservation finance field has experienced rapid growth in recent years...
Markets for a range of grains can grow widely and quickly

Businesses big and small can drive growth for regenerative growth across a range of crops. 

Show Me the Money: Making a Downstream Market for Diverse Regenerative Crops

Claire Huntley Lafave, Cortney Ahern Renton, Katie Sierks
April 16, 2020
  • Topics:
  • Agriculture
  • Land Conservation
  • Impact Investing
  • Climate
In the words of the great agricultural philosopher Liza Minnelli, “Money makes the world go round.” Most stakeholders RAI interviewed across agricultural supply chains, especially farmers, want to grow crops and raise livestock in a sustainable way. Yet this desire to minimize environmental harm is not feasible if it creates...
Cover Crops for All Day with RAI

Farmers' informal networks can drive progress for finance, food and the farming business. The RAI visited pioneers in Iowa in 2018. 

Farmers on the Frontlines of the Regenerative Agriculture Transition

Cortney Ahern Renton, Claire Huntley Lafave, Katie Sierks
April 15, 2020
  • Topics:
  • Land Conservation
  • Impact Investing
  • Public Policy
Achieving the transition from conventional to regenerative agriculture will require a major shift in the strategy and behavior of many of America’s two million farmers. For a farmer, farming for healthy soils, ecosystems, communities and climate conflicts at many points with conventional agriculture practice. Wider success comes only from the...
Regenerative ag's open for business- and investment

This "beyond organic" farm in New York's Hudson Valley earned capital from a REIT that saw its growth potential. 

So, You're Thinking of Investing in Regenerative Food Systems...

Cortney Ahern Renton, Claire Huntley Lafave, Katie Sierks
April 08, 2020
  • Topics:
  • Impact Investing
  • Public Policy
  • Habitat
The traditional landscape of farmland ownership and financing in the United States thwarts the adoption of regenerative agriculture. First, farmland is expensive. Farm real estate prices have doubled in the last decade. But models have emerged to power regenerative practices forward. These include concessionary capital, financing from real estate investment...

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