In collaboration with Bain & Company - 100 Million Farmers: Breakthrough Models for Financing

the adoption of practices and sustain their implementation, a key source of financing should At the heart of this challenge are the barriers come from the monetization of the full value of to adoption – particularly economic barriers, in all ecosystem services delivered by regenerative addition to technical and social challenges – that practices, including improved resilience and farmers face. [...] Coordination is financing and collaboration to support farmers, with needed to simplify the adoption process for a specific focus on their adoption of regenerative farmers, to assemble the diverse set of actors agriculture (defined as a context-dependent system that have a role to play and stand to benefit of farming practices that delivers or improves from the adoption of regenerative agriculture. [...] The US represented some 10% of all grain and oilseed harvested acres globally in the 2021/2022 As an example, consider the efforts to drive the growing season,24 so the investment necessary for adoption of regenerative agriculture in the US, which global adoption to reach an optimal level – and the is one of the largest and most productive growers associated returns – are likely significantly high. [...] Existing programmes do not include all the necessary – Existing initiatives are not set up to aggregate elements of breakthrough models for financing and manage the public and private catalytic, and collaboration: concessional and long-term investment required to adequately support farmers in the early years – No existing programme provides the full stack of their transitions and ensure the change. [...] Develop a data commons and a 501(c)3 organization in the US that is building accelerate marketplace development data modelling and infrastructure to demonstrate for all ecosystem services and quantify the positive impact of regenerative agriculture and help financial actors build the Many aspects of breakthrough models for financing business case for offerings that reward farmers and collaboration.