Varennes is a consultancy specializing in sustainable investment, innovation and strategy in the agriculture and food industry.
See below for some of our work, but please do get in touch.
Global Seaweed New and Emerging Markets Report 2023
Current state of the seaweed market
Current state of the seaweed market
An assessment of market potential of 10 key applications
A summary of all ecosystem service applications in development
How can the EU lead in Soil Carbon?
A value-chain analysis of existing EU innovation
Lessons from other leading countries and regions
An action plan to EU leadership in the sector
Past articles
Regenerative Agriculture
In this three-part series we tackled investing in regenerative agriculture. Part I provides an overview, part 2 looks at key technological and business model innovation, and part 3 looks at finance.
Innovation and Investment - Part 1
The investment landscape for regenerative agriculture can simultaneously look like a vast roadmap for the future of agriculture and, at the same time, a set of nascent, un-proven or at best, ‘early-stage’ technologies…
Innovation and Technology - Part 2
We are seeing a technological convergence in agriculture. Farm management and decision support software are being built on the back of data streams which are often being collected for the first time…
Innovation and Finance - Part 3
A new asset class for agriculture and nature-based solutions investors. Writing in the Financial Times, Henry Paulson, the ex-US Treasury Secretary, championed the creation of ‘a new asset class of healthy soils and pollinators’…
Exciting opportunities in the coming decade
The way we grow, harvest and distribute food will need to change. Which companies are bringing us the new business models and technology to help with this transformation?