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You can also read a river as a bundle of food, filtration, resilience and job creation.

Two recent investment projects are raising significant money to try to show that taking natural capital investment to the next level is not only possible, but potentially a key piece for future institutional asset managers to include in a balanced portfolio. No matter how you slice it, to get a...

Cash flows and rivers flow — The Washington Farmland Trust, which crafted the Conservation Note, provided this image.

How does a farmer with no desire to keep growing crops become a catalyst for financial value and land preservation? The Washington Farmland Trust worked with a farmer at the end of his career to craft a financial package that would keep his land from developers, sustain ecosystem services, and...

What makes efforts to preserve land harmonize with efforts to promote commerce? In this article, we review several examples. Entrepreneurs learn to bolster terrain for hikers (who drink beer), historically sensitive consumers, and fellow merchants. These examples show how creative approaches to promoting conservation and community-based development can yield ongoing...

Small forests add up to potentially significant pools of carbon storage. Carbon credits as structured don't make that an economic business for small owners- yet.

Markets for a range of grains can grow widely and quickly — Businesses big and small can drive growth for regenerative growth across a range of crops.

In the words of the great agricultural philosopher Liza Minnelli, “Money makes the world go round.” Most stakeholders RAI interviewed across agricultural supply chains, especially farmers, want to grow crops and raise livestock in a sustainable way. Yet this desire to minimize environmental harm is not feasible if it creates...

The investment will focus on driving innovation, advancing clean air travel technologies, accelerating reductions in waste and emissions, and establishing new offsetting and natural carbon sequestration projects, the company said.

A new pilot project aims to reward Canadian producers for sequestering carbon in grasslands, highlighting the value of agriculture on these landscapes to the public.

This grant funding program focuses on helping kick-start innovative and scalable approaches for reducing emissions and storing more carbon on natural and working lands in the United States.

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Reaching for the Canopy: Two Partnerships Grow Institutional Interest in Natural Capital

Good Crops, Good Credit: How a Northwest Land Trust Sustains Farmland With Capital

Aligning Conservation and Community Development for Increased Impact in Sentinel Landscapes—and Beyond

...as Small Forests' Capital Needs Come Into Focus

Show Me the Money: Making a Downstream Market for Diverse Regenerative Crops

Delta Lifts Off With $1 Billion Pledge to Become Carbon Neutral

Registry Accepts First Canadian Grassland Carbon Offset Protocol

Natural Climate Solutions Accelerator Grant Program