Regenerative Catalysts: A Conversation Series on Building Investable Ecosystems

What does it take to move regenerative agriculture from promising pilots to functioning systems at scale? And what becomes possible when producers, enterprises, investors, and communities are not simply participating, but actively aligned around a shared pathway forward?

These are the questions at the heart of Regenerative Catalysts: A Conversation Series on Building Investable Ecosystems, a new conversation series from TIFS.

Across diverse regions, regenerative agriculture is entering a new phase of development. Increasingly, the focus is on how strong ideas evolve into integrated systems—where markets, financing models, and partnerships are designed in concert, and where the conditions for long-term success are intentionally built. This is the work of ecosystem building: connecting the right actors, aligning incentives, and shaping pathways that allow regenerative models to thrive and grow.

This series is grounded in that perspective.

Rather than focusing on individual innovations, Regenerative Catalysts centers the real-world initiatives where regeneration is already being advanced through coordinated effort. These are place-based ecosystems where producers, businesses, investors, and regional partners are working together to develop viable, investable pathways for transition. Each initiative reflects its own context, but all share a common thread: they are building the relationships, structures, and financial models that enable regeneration to take root and scale.

Each session features the Regenerative Catalysts at the core of TIFS’ global work. Through long-term partnerships, TIFS works alongside these initiatives to support the development of financing and operational strategies, strengthen investment readiness, and, where appropriate, help design structures that activate capital for regenerative activities. Over time, this work contributes to a growing body of practical knowledge—demonstrating how capital can be aligned with ecological and social outcomes in ways that are both effective and enduring.

The conversations themselves bring together founders, practitioners, and capital partners to share what it takes to build these ecosystems in practice. They explore how trust is cultivated across stakeholders, how financial and operating models are refined within specific contexts, and how collaboration creates new opportunities for capital to flow in support of regenerative outcomes.

In doing so, the series offers a window into how transformation happens—not as a single breakthrough, but as a process of alignment, iteration, and shared learning. It highlights the role of ecosystem builders like TIFS in connecting actors, strengthening coordination, and helping translate regenerative principles into systems that can operate and expand over time.

Three sessions are currently scheduled, with more to follow later this year. Each one offers an opportunity to engage directly with the people shaping these ecosystems and to deepen understanding of how regenerative food systems can be built to function at scale.

For those working across finance, agriculture, and systems change, this is an invitation to step into the conversation—and into the collective effort of building what comes next.

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Courageous Land: Building the Platform Infrastructure for Agroforestry

Wednesday, April 22 | 7:00AM PT / 10:00AM ET / 11:00AM BRT / 4:00pm CET | 90 minutes

Courageous Land is a platform that supports the expansion of agroforestry systems and helps landowners transition farmland into diversified, productive landscapes. Agroforestry — the integration of trees and agriculture — is increasingly recognized for its potential to support climate resilience, biodiversity, soil health, and diversified farm income, but scaling it requires new technologies, financing, and coordination among farmers, landowners, and implementation partners. Join us to learn how Courageous Land is building the platform infrastructure to make that possible, connecting landowners, implementation partners, investors, and crop and carbon buyers.

TIFS works with Courageous Land to expand awareness of their approach to making multi-strata agroforestry investable and to connect them with aligned capital and partners.

Moderator: Rex Raimond, Director, TIFS

Speakers:

Philip Kauders, CEO, Courageous Land
Tatiana Correa da Fonseca, Co-Founder, Anjos do Sertão
Arthur Graziano, Project Manager, Anjos do Sertão
Ana Laura Fernández, Managing Partner, The Yield Lab Latam

ForestFoods: Reforesting Kenya’s Agricultural Landscape

Wednesday, May 6 | 7:00AM PT / 10:00AM ET / 4:00PM CET / 5:00PM EAT | 90 minutes

ForestFoods is pioneering syntropic agroforestry in Kenya — producing nutrient-dense, beyond-organic food while actively reforesting the land. Working with farmers and forest communities, they are building a model that connects regenerative production to premium markets and demonstrates how forest-integrated agriculture can be both ecologically restorative and commercially viable. Join us for a conversation about their approach, their impact, and the financing pathways opening up for forest-based food systems in East Africa.

As part of our Regenerative Catalysts work in Kenya, TIFS has supported ForestFoods in building global visibility for a model that demonstrates how syntropic agroforestry can be both ecologically restorative and investable.

Gaia Legado: How a Community-Led Vision is Redefining Regeneration in Brazil

Tuesday, May 19 | 7:00AM PT / 10:00AM ET / 11:00AM BRT / 4:00AM CET | 90 minutes

Gaia Legado is transforming a donated 1,500-hectare farm in Brazil’s Cerrado into a permanent agroecological community — housing landless families, restoring degraded land, and supplying regeneratively grown food to local schools. Developed in partnership with the MST, Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement, it is a model designed from the outset for replication across Brazil. Join us for a conversation with João Pacifico, Founder and CEO of Grupo Gaia, and Tuíra Tule, National Coordinator of the MST.

Through the Regenerative Catalysts Program, TIFS has partnered with Grupo Gaia to help translate their model for international audiences, strengthen their scaling strategy, and connect them to values-aligned foundations and investors.

*Compliance Notice: These educational webinars about regenerative agriculture are open to interested parties in our professional network who have previously expressed interest in sustainable agriculture investments. In accordance with applicable securities regulations, any specific investment opportunities discussed will only be available to qualified investors with whom we have a substantive pre-existing relationship.