New Reports Examine Opportunity in Regenerative Agriculture

The Yale Center for Business and Environment released two new reports examining options to improve and advance regenerative agriculture practices, Bridging the Regenerative Agriculture Financing Gap and Surf to Turf: Linking Regenerative Agriculture and Restorative Aquaculture in Coastal Foodscapes. The first report proposes a new foundation for financing regenerative farms that takes into account the three factors that make financing regenerative agriculture difficult: outdated financial models; difficult financial returns; and cultural differences between farmers and investors. The second report explores the history of sea-to-soil connections in food and agriculture, best practices and examples of these approaches at work today, and the opportunity they present for deep and meaningful food systems transformation on land and at sea. Both reports are accessible online.