Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food 33 Thomas Rippel, using a blockchain to help Farmland Stewardship Organisations grow
Thomas raised over € 1M with a German CSA to buy the land under their farm. Now Thomas is looking at blockchains to help more Farmland Stewardship Organisations do the same.
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Listen to the update interview with Thomas here:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2018/04/21/thomas-rippel.
Observations from the podcast:
- A lot of speculative cash has moved into agri land
- We have seen a real decoupling of productive value and the farmland price
- Buying land is out of the question for most farmers
- Farmland is mostly bought by financial institutions
- Financial Institutions only look at the highest lease (which is usually the least sustainable farmer as he or she is not paying for all the externalities they produce.
- Because they mine the soil.
- 80% of the classmates of Thomas at the biodynamic (4,5 year study) couldn’t find land afterwards
- Regenerative farmers, who are good stewards of the land, can’t make those cashflows (especially at
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