Organic farmers to harvest record acres in 2019
Organic agriculture is growing – in 2019, 8.3 million acres were planted and certified organic in the US. This equates to 18,155 organic farms and a 3% jump from 2018. Mercaris, a leading data provider for organic and non-gmo markets, recently released their Annual Acreage Report and Organic Farm Heat Map, which…
Foundations Can Unlock a Food System to Feed the World
Iroquois Valley was featured in the Swift Foundation’s piece for Stanford Social Innovation Review’s Summer 2019 issue. Their article looks at a few organizations, including California FarmLink and RSF Social Finance, who are working to support regional food systems through finance. It also identifies a role for foun…
If We Want to Change Our Food System, We Need to Change Our Finance System
Heritage breed pigs at Yker Acres Farm in Carlton County, MN
While organic farming is growing, only 1% of all U.S. farmland is farmed organically. We’re looking to change that by providing secure, long-term land access for regenerative farmers.
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Our investment theory is that land security enable…
