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Center for Business and the Environment at Yale
Janine Yorio will be speaking at Yale University, as part of the Sabin Speaker Series at the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale on the topic of “Entrepreneurship in Agriculture: Nurturing and Investing in Companies that Make Agriculture More Sustainable.”
When: December 2, 2009 | 5:00 – 6:30PM
Where: Kroon Hall – Burke Auditorium (195 Prospect Street)
Cost: Free and open to the public (reception to follow)
Organizer: Yale Center for Business and the Environment and the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute
Planting The Seeds For Sustainability by Melinda Peer, September 25, 2009
Problems like population growth, climate change and nutritionally-compromised food have inspired sustainable agriculture entrepreneurs to improve traditional farming methods. It’s an uphill battle but Janine Yorio of NewSeed Advisors sees sustainability as the best way to meet the world’s growing food and energy needs…
The missing component is capital, which is where Janine Yorio comes in. An investment banker with a background in real estate, Yorio sought to extend her savvy to urban croppers seeking land for small-scale farms in New York City and Brooklyn. These city farmers are proponents of urban agriculture, which sees cultivation potential in backyards, rooftops and vacant lots, and reduces fossil fuels by cutting the distance that fresh produce has to travel to reach city-dwellers. The small growing plots also eliminate the usual barriers of entry to farming: several acres of land and costly mechanized farming equipment.
“I began noticing that no one was paying attention to these urban farmers,” Yorio said. “And it was through them that I began noticing that there really wasn’t a lot of overlap between agriculture and Wall Street.” Read the entire article here.
Seed money: Investing in sustainable agriculture
by The Green A-Team
Sustainable agriculture investing gets serious with Wall Street money movers.
The business of feeding the world’s populations has fast become less about the quality of the produce shipped halfway around the world to your salad bowl and all about the quantity and speed at which the agricultural industry can deliver higher yields through soil damaging pest control and genetic mutations through biotechnology.
A new investment firm seeks to pair sustainable solutions with the resources necessary to fix our broken agricultural system.
Janine Yorio, Founder of NewSeed Advisors.
A lot of what we call sustainable also becomes economically necessary in the face of rising oil prices. So the day that we wake up and gas is at $5 again is that day that farmers and people [who] are actually involved in food production need to find alternatives to the petrochemicals that they use every single day to produce food.
Read the entire article at http://greenairradio.com/?p=2123
“Yorio graduated from Yale in 1997 with a degree in history. She went directly into finance, specializing in structured loans and boutique hotels. She did well. However, as real estate waned, she got out, deciding instead to pursue an industry with “real underlying growth prospects.” After studying what was happening in the underworld of sustainable agriculture, Yorio reached a novel conclusion: there’s gold to be found off the grid of conventional agriculture.” Read ‘Funding the Future of Organic Farming’ in The Atlantic
