SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
+ Panelist moderator: “Real Asset Investment to Catalyze On-Farm Regeneration”, Regenerative Food Systems Investment (RFSI) Forum, September 2023
+ Panelist: "Formalizing ESG in Investment Mandates”, Who Will Own The Forests (WWOTF), September 2022
+ Panelist: “Natural Capital, an investment opportunity”, Sustainable Finance Summit, May 2022
+ Panelist: “Investing in Forest Solutions for a Healthy Climate”, Confluence Philanthropy, December 2021
+ Panelist: “How Innovative Financing Can Help Promote Sustainable Supply Chains”. Highquest AgClub, Nov. 2021
+ Panelist moderator: “Investor Perspectives: The Building Blocks for Successful Regenerative Food Systems Investment”, RFSI Forum, October 2019
+ Panelist: “Conservation Finance: Investing in Nature”, SOCAP18, October 2018
+ Guest speaker on "Investing in Regenerative Agriculture" podcast, October 2017
+ Presenter: Back to Grass: The Market Potential for U.S. Grassfed Beef webinar,
Concordia Campaign for a Sustainable Global Food Supply, April 2017 (Audio recording and presentation available here.)
+ Panel moderator: “Sustainable Food & Agriculture”, SOCAP16, September 2016
+ Panelist: The Land Degradation Neutrality Fund, Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case, June 2016
+ Guest speaker: San Francisco Bay Area Chinese Radio program AM1450. Program topics (recording in Cantonese available upon request):
> Farmland investments in Latin America, January 2015
> Modern food production & the American diet, January 2015
> Impact of the California drought, November 2015
+ Panel moderator: Deconstructing manager thinking - buy & lease or own & operate, Agri Investor Forum 2015, October 2015
+ Panel moderator: Opportunities and risks of investing in Latin America, Agri Investor Forum 2014, November 2014
PUBLICATIONS
+ "Grass-fed beef brings premium price, at higher cost", AgAlert, August 2017
+ "Online startup Crowd Cow wants to disrupt the meat market. The stakes have never been higher.", Grist, August 2017
+ "Report: US Grass-Fed Beef Market Doubling Every Year, But Scaling Challenges Remain", AgFunder News, May 2017
+ "Back to Grass: The Market Potential for U.S. Grassfed Beef", April 2017
Co-author with SLM Partners, in collaboration with Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture and Armonia LLC
+ "Ask the Expert: Renee Cheung on Land Degradation and What Can Be Done About It", Quarterra, August 2016
+ "Five Reasons to Invest in Land Degradation Neutrality", AgFunder News, August 2016
+ "Unlocking the market for land degradation neutrality", June 2016
In collaboration with co-author Mirova and UNCCD (United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification)
+ "Buying the Farm", Orion Magazine interview, July 2015
+ "On the ground: end of year reviews", Agri Investor, January 2 2015
+ "Investing in conservation: a landscape assessment of an emerging market", November 2014
Co-author on behalf of NatureVest and Encourage Capital
+ "Regenerative agriculture: the investor perspective", Agri Investor, October 9 2014
+ Dancing with the Moo, blog on Renee Cheung's farming experience in Sweden, 2013