Living Income Guidance for Governments
A new guidance document is available on “The Role of Governments in Enabling Living Income in Global Agriculture Value Chains: Guidance for public policy makers”. The document creation was led…
Opportunity to Expand What’s Working in Regen Ag
The Sustainable Food Lab is a technical partner along with many other organizations in support of the Midwest Row Crop Collaborative (MRCC) Climate Smart Commodities grant proposal. Focusing on row…
Us-Versus-Them Gets in the Way of Regenerative Agriculture: We need conventional farmers
By Hal Hamilton I’ve been thinking about the cultural divide between mainstream farmers and those who self-identify as regenerative or organic. As with many other issues, people get stuck…
Living Income and the Risk of Economic Vulnerability
Inflation is at record levels and food shortages abound due to logistics issues and the war in Ukraine. This is both a difficult time to work on increasing farmer income…
Scaling Agricultural Transition: Understanding Why Agriculture Is The Way It Is & Then ID Leverage Points
By Elizabeth Reaves & Hal Hamilton Large-scale commodity agriculture functions the way it does for understandable reasons. But that hardly means it needs to remain stuck in the status…
Job Opening: Program Manager
***PLEASE NOTE, WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING ADDITIONAL APPLICATIONS AT THIS TIME*** It’s not often we hire at the Food Lab. We are a small, highly effective team that values collegiality,…
Businesses are Cultivating Regenerative Agriculture: Watch Out for 3 Potential Traps
By Elizabeth Reaves and Hal Hamilton Regenerative agriculture – a term covering a broad range of sustainable farming practices, many of them as old as agriculture itself – is…
Job Opening: Partnership Manager
***PLEASE NOTE, WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING ADDITIONAL APPLICATIONS AT THIS TIME*** SFL is thrilled to post an opening for a 1-year contract to provide direct support to PepsiCo. This position…
The Role of Procurement, Marketing & Finance in Investing in Regenerative Agriculture to Mitigate Climate Risk
By Elizabeth Reaves & Hal Hamilton Within a food and beverage company, climate risk affects each function in different ways – and each of these functions can help farmers…
New Scale Lab Report: Regenerative Agriculture and the Role of Companies in Galvanizing Systems Change
Culminating in this report and accompanying resources, the Food Lab and Midwest Row Crop Collaborative led a group of ten companies and The Nature Conservancy to develop an exciting and…
