Regenerative Farms Inc

RF was created to address barriers to the rapid scaling of effective climate change mitigation and adaptation solutions. Our main goals are to halt key drivers of deforestation and land degradation worldwide by supporting locally-led organizations who are actively restoring degraded areas. We achieve our goals by helping build core capabilities of organizational leaders and social entrepreneurs who work directly with smallholder farmers on a daily basis to improve gender equity, end rural poverty, improve food/nutrition security, plant trees, protect biodiversity and forests, and transition farms to more profitable and climate resilient regenerative systems.

Regenerative Farms has defined three priority strategic goals for building its own organizational capacity from 2022-2024.

1. Strengthen Regenerative Farms' organizational capabilities and financial sustainability

2. Support 2 of RF’s Hub adoption partner organizations in building one new Hub each while fully documenting the benefits/impacts of the process for knowledge sharing with the 20+ other Hub adoption organizations under incubation in the RF Hub knowledge-sharing network.

3. Support the 20+ Regenerative Farms Hub adoption partner organizations to conduct pre-feasibility studies to determine if a Hub enterprise is viable, to explore how they might use a Hub to access new and better markets, and grow overall farm level and community level profitability and well-being by building a Regeneration Hub and value-adding enterprise.

1. Support the development of 2 new Regeneration Hubs by 2024 and support the capacity development of the two leaders running these Hubs which will be located in two of the World's most important biodiversity hot spots (Peruvian Amazon, W. Kalimantan Indonesia).
2. Grow and deepen RF's capacity-building program, tools, and leadership network.
3. Help secure funding so RF can work with Hub leaders to strengthen their management and technical capabilities.
4. Engage 20+ Hub partners in pre-feasibility studies and readiness activities, and help them build skills to find funding to build 20 new regional Regeneration Hubs by 2030.
5. Develop a transparent monitoring, reporting, and verification program to ensure Hubs deliver on goals to empower women farmers, protect forests and regenerate degraded lands.
6. Help Hubs build their connections with Hub value-added product buyers and Hub funders.
7. Build effective, scalable tools to offer Hub leaders efficient and effective technical training and sharing of leading innovations that will increase their ability to quickly and measurable restore degraded lands, train farmers, and protect high biodiversity forests, as well as monitor their social and environmental outcomes transparently.

The Regenerative Farms Advantage
Regenerative Farmsl is a global nonprofit project providing a model that combines multiple award-winning solutions demonstrated over a 40-year period to incentivize farmers to protect and restore degraded lands.

RF has interest from 20+ local project partners who want RF's help to adopt this model to help them speed up the scaling of regeneration in ways that uplift women and indigenous farmers. RF's partners are located in biodiversity hot spots around the world. RF's team is made of proven experts with broad expertise in regenerative & organic agriculture, economic development, developing tech innovations, and creating networks that weave together stakeholders who can help scale impact.

Regeneration Begins With Thoughtful Holistic Design Thinking
Regenerative Farms understands that regenerative solutions require a comprehensive, rather than single-focused, design thinking approach. The Hub model was designed, tested, and improved by field practitioners, who measured its ability to deliver real-world benefits. We use a leader-to-leader approach to sharing the model.
Hubs work with local community leaders who understand local needs, culture, and ecosystem realities. Collaboration is the foundation upon which RF's Hub model leads to long-term regeneration that can scale. Regenerative Farms works across the entire value chain to advance regeneration —building diverse collaborations through initiatives that weave together actions that rebuild economic, social, and environmental health. Regenerative Farms initiatives add value for local beneficiaries, funders, consumers, and corporate partners.

Global Experience Brings Success
Regenerative Farms partners with proven local-level leaders whose organizations have made an indelible mark leading local regeneration efforts. Our portfolio of programs and services has grown to include Hubs on five continents. We deliver capacity-building support to help local leaders on various issues, from enterprise development and carbon sequestration to gender violence prevention. Attention to evolving and emerging issues and institutional agility enables Regenerative Farms to respond quickly. Regenerative Farms has a proven core team of professional staff, volunteers, and consultants with in-depth experience supporting multiple non-profit projects with sites worldwide and millions in annual combined revenues. They handle all of our financials, HR, and IRS reporting requirements.

Catalyzing Regenerative Livelihoods Worldwide
Regenerative Farms recognizes the importance of working closely with partners, collaborating with local communities and organizations, and cooperating with government agencies at all levels — making it possible to navigate even the most difficult situations successfully. We promote local collaboration, research, and information exchange using the latest innovations, data tools, and regenerative farming technologies.

Incorporated in 2021, we spent our first year building our organization, developing our strategic plan, documenting our financial plan and building tools and case studies for sharing the Regeneration Hub model, as well as testing strategies and tools for building leadership capabilities. We worked very closely with 8 local organization leaders supporting their work and building their Hub adoption skillsets.

We established RF’s organizational structure, built our team, onboarded 4 new volunteer Directors to our Board, and strengthened our local Hub adoption partnerships. As a result, awareness of RF grew. We gained interest from ten new aspiring Hub adoption partners, three of which serve substantially larger numbers of farmers, including many communities who faced a rising threat of famine in 2022. Through these new Hub partners, RF is poised to reach upwards of 70,000 more needy farm families over the next three years. Just three of these new partners are poised to plant more than 1M nourishing food trees in 2024 if we succeed in assisting them in securing the necessary funding.

We supported our partners in Ghana to attend a week-long gender empowerment/community human rights-based training in Senegal. We supported two Hub leaders through a year-long leadership mentoring program. We connected 10 Hub partners with funding opportunities and networking for learning and Hub model knowledge sharing. We connected our Hub partners in DRC and Ghana with thousands of donated vegetable seeds to fight famine and connected them with seed banking training. We helped our Hub partner in Honduras access fruit tree seeds to disseminate tree seedlings to farmers to increase food security in the Bay Islands, who suffered dramatic economic losses due to the loss of tourism from Covid-19.

The rapid growth in interest in our capacity-building support in 2022 helped us see that we need to invest in building a robust and agile funding plan, as well as build a highly scalable capacity-building approach to better meet the growing demand and need for Hub adoption. Our strategic plan outlines what comes next for Regenerative Farms. We seek mission-aligned funders and volunteers to help us meet the growing demand for our services and increase the positive impact that our global network of Regeneration Hubs can achieve in the coming decade.