9 episodes
The Soilify Podcast Earth Analytics
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Meeting the challenges of an accelerated climate change process requires tackling the problem from the biggest base. With soils having the capability of both meeting our nutritive needs and capturing atmospheric carbon, regenerative agriculture holds promise. The Soilify podcast features short interviews with people from various walks of life working towards expanding regenerative agricultural practices and sequestering soil carbon.
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Setting Off The Offset Debate
Offsets alone won't cut it when it comes to our mitigation efforts. What more must we do? On the podcast today, we have Edit Kiss, Chief Investment Officer at London’s Revalue Nature. She talks to us about incentivizing and accounting for efforts in carbon reduction, the complexity of the exercise, and the public discourse around it.
Shownotes:
UNEP Report on “State of Finance for Nature”: https://www.unep.org/resources/state-finance-nature
SBTi FLAG (Science Based Targets Initiative: Forest Land and Agriculture): https://sciencebasedtargets.org/
Tropical Forest Alliance: https://www.tropicalforestalliance.org/
John Oliver on Carbon Offsets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p8zAbFKpW0
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Something To Bank On
What can a formal financing programme for regenerative agriculture look like? Arindom Datta, Executive Director of Rural and Development Banking and Advisory at Rabobank, tells us in this episode. He talks to us about impact monitoring, agreeing on terminologies and definitions, and his optimism for RegAg financing in India.
Shownotes:
The Blended Finance initiative from the Impact Investors Council: https://blendedfinanceindia.org/industry-insight.html
MFI: Microfinance Institution
LP: Limited Partnership
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Incentive Intensive
What do we incentivize when we incentivize regenerative agriculture? Our guest on the Season 2 opener today, Climate Farmers co-founder Ivo Degn, offers his analysis on this issue. He also talks to us about farmers earning carbon credits, the changing attitudes of investors when it comes to regenerative agriculture, and our options as a planet if we want to continue feeding ourselves.
Shownotes:
Climate Farmers: https://www.climatefarmers.org/
The History of Carbon Offsetting: https://impactful.ninja/the-history-of-carbon-offsetting/
Nori Carbon Removal Marketplace, USA: https://nori.com/
Project Together: https://projecttogether.org/
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Sow It Goes
After making the necessary switches in agricultural practices, keeping a close watch on soil carbon content, ensuring you’ve got the right kind of investments and a foot in the door of the voluntary carbon market, what next? That’s what this season finale of the Soilify Podcast is all about. Our guest today is Kirti Prasanna Mishra, co-founder of business consulting firm Ecociate. He talks to us about connecting with the right market for organic produce and finding an entrepreneur within the farmer.
Shownotes:
A survey of American consumers from the US-based International Food Information Council found that in 2020, 85% of those surveyed reported changes in their food habits. The number fell to 72% in 2021. Read more about it here.
A list of abbreviations:
FAO: Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN
FPO: Farmer Producer Organisation
ICAR: Indian Council for Agricultural Research
IFAD: International Fund for Agricultural Development
KfW: Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (Credit Institute for Reconstruction)
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Standard Issue
When we agree on reducing carbon emissions, how do we agree on the standards that measure them? In this episode, we have Viridiana Alcantara-Shivapatham, a Senior Program Officer at Verra, one of the world’s largest carbon standards organisations. Here she talks about the painstaking review processes that go behind their work, the role of smallholder farmers in the carbon market, and how carbon emissions go much beyond just carbon dioxide.
Shownotes:
FAO guidelines for measuring and modelling soil carbon stocks and stock changes in livestock production systems: https://www.fao.org/3/CA2934EN/ca2934en.pdf
Verra’s VM0042 Methodology for Improved Agricultural Land Management, v1.0: https://verra.org/methodology/vm0042-methodology-for-improved-agricultural-land-management-v1-0/
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Venture-ing Into New Fields
There are billions of dollars flowing into ecosystem restoration globally. But what makes it move? Sheeba Sen and Pradyot Porwal, who run Hasten Ventures, tell us exactly that. Listen in for a conversation that covers the global carbon markets, philanthropic funding and commercial capital.
Shownotes:
Hasten Ventures: https://www.hasten.ventures/home
The Iris+ Guidelines: https://iris.thegiin.org/
A Comprehensive Overview of Global Biodiversity Finance, OECD: https://www.oecd.org/environment/resources/biodiversity/report-a-comprehensive-overview-of-global-biodiversity-finance.pdf
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