In the PE world the only true ReGen fund that's throwing capital deployments into land at scale in the US is Farmland LP. I'm seeing a number of funds labling themselves as "ReGen" but upon close examination they're really buy, rent, get an organic cert, and flip, utilizing nothing more than cover crop and maintaining the cycle of corn-soy or timber. Then there's the next area which is debt funds that are slinging credit to farmers (who already carry too much) and "AG Tech" which is pulling the usual VC feed and flip model. Meanwhile, the Acre Traders and Gladstones are still in the conventional chemical cropping cycle. At the same time developers are parking multi-family and mini-storage on anything they can get their hands on.
At 12:55 Cameron mentions a globally-applicable biodiversity measurement paper that could go in the show notes. Do you have that link? He mentions it is available online; but it is not obvious where it currently sits on their website.
Hi Nathaniel, here it is www.planvivo.org/Handlers/Download.ashx?IDMF=6504e4df-fa6f-4529-9945-767b5c8252e0. It is on our website on Cameron's episode in the links section at the bottom investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2024/05/07/cameron-frayling-2/