New Food Order is a podcast exploring the business of tackling our climate and social crises through food and agriculture from Food+Tech Connect and AgFunder. Through nuanced conversation and debate, we’re embarking on a learning and unlearning journey to unearth how we might design business and finance to have maximum positive impact for people and our planet.
Is exponential growth possible on a finite planet? How might we balance growth and profit with maximum social and ecological benefit? This is a huge topic that we’re just beginning to scratch the surface of. In today’s bonus finance episode, we share two differing viewpoints on growth from regenera...
The food and agriculture industries are major contributors to today’s social and environmental crises. Companies across all industries are being forced to rethink the way they do business, and food and agriculture are no exception. Businesses big and small want to do better and become more resilien...
How do we re-design financial instruments to have maximum positive impact for people and our planet? Whether it’s a large multi-national and publicly listed corporation, startup or small business, or a family farmer, every business needs financing at one point or another. But the range of financing...
Happy New Year from New Food Order! We are so grateful for this community and each and everyone of you who are joining us on this journey. Here at New Food Order, we are starting the year by reflecting on the season so far and sharing some of the exciting things we’ve got in store for 2023! Be sure...
Happy Holidays from New Food Order! This week we’re bringing you a holiday gift. So many of you have told us that you love our beautiful podcast theme music, so as a special treat we’re sharing the theme song in full with an added bonus interview with our composer, Rodrigo Barberá. Rodrigo is a M...
This week we have a mini episode featuring snippets from a recent conversation we had with Errol Schweizer, former VP of Grocery at Whole Foods, where we asked him what he sees as the top challenges with the business of food and agriculture. Errol shared many challenges with us, but we are sharing ...
What would it look like if we completely re-designed the food system, product by product? In this week’s episode, we speak with Julia Collins, Founder and CEO of Planet FWD, a carbon management platform for consumer companies to bring climate-friendly products to market. Through her work with Plan...
Carbon markets are emerging as a leading tool for tackling our climate crisis, but are they actually getting to the root of the crisis? In this episode, we speak with Tom Goldtooth (Dine’ and Dakota), executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, an organization of Indigenous Peoples...
“We're in the beginnings of a total revolution, and I'm excited about it.” This week’s guest is reflecting on the transformation occurring across the food and agriculture industries. Not since the Green Revolution has the industry seen such change. It hasn’t happened overnight. Over the past decade...
From food and agriculture to fashion and economics, 'regenerative’ has become a buzzword over the last few years. But regeneration is not a new concept at all. It is a paradigm and set of agricultural practices that indigenous peoples have practiced for millenia. This week, Danielle and Louisa spe...