ORIGINWORKS BY REGENERATES

Regenerative agriculture
starts with understanding
place

OriginWorks helps buyers, funders, suppliers, and producers understand the realities of each agricultural origin, identify where support can unlock the most value, and coordinate transition toward long-term resilience.

How does it work?

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OriginWorks — How it works

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OriginWorks by Regenerates

Agricultural origins are under multiple pressures at once.

Compliance. Climate. Claims. Supply risk. Capital. Farmer viability.

Illustrative

Origin

place-based system

Compliance

EUDR, traceability, due diligence

Climate & nature

Scope 3, biodiversity, land use

Claims

Marketing claims, audit defensibility

Supply risk

Continuity, exclusion, disruption

Capital

Investability, sequencing, absorption

Farmer viability

Income, capacity, transition risk

Origin

Buyer

"Is this compliant?
Will my claims hold?"

Compliance statusOrigin claim

Capital

"Is this de-risked?
Where can capital move?"

Risk scoreAsset readiness

Producer

"Is this viable for me?
Will support reach my farm?"

Income, capacitySupport access

Brand

"Can I tell a credible
sourcing story?"

Sourcing claimOrigin story

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Origin Model

integrated read

Local realities

Farmer viability

Organizational capacity

Technical support

Capital readiness

MRV readiness

Transition potential

Biodiversity

Soil & water

Landscape function

Example place-based pathways

Origin A

Bottleneck

Productivity + operating context

Pathway

Restore productivity first, then design around logistics and operating constraints.

Origin B

Bottleneck

Input dependence + low diversity

Pathway

Reduce input dependence, diversify farms, and model transition economics.

Origin C

Bottleneck

Organisation + infrastructure

Pathway

Strengthen organisation, data capacity, and decentralised processing.

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Bring one origin
into focus.

Origin Intelligence → Transition Strategy → Stewardship

OriginWorks by Regenerates

Choose your pathway

For Capital

Invest where it can work.

See where capital can land, what must be strengthened, and what it can unlock.

For Buyers & Brands

Source with confidence.

Reduce compliance, claims, supply, and transition risk from a shared origin picture.

For Producers & Suppliers

Make real needs visible.

Clarify what support is needed for transition to become viable at origin.

OriginWorks checks

Get a first read of the pressures, gaps, and questions shaping your origin situation.

Three short checks, one for buyers, one for funders, one for suppliers. Each surfaces what is most useful to bring into a focused OriginWorks conversation.

Under 2 minutes No account needed Instant indicative results Follow-up within 24h

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Buyers & brands

Origin Readiness Check

Are your origins ready for sourcing continuity, EUDR, claims, FLAG / Scope 3, and transition decisions?

Start buyer check

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Funders & investors

Origin Legibility Check

Is this origin legible enough to underwrite, sequence, deploy capital, and report impact credibly?

Start funder check

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Suppliers & origin actors

Origin Evidence Check

Can your origin evidence answer what buyers are asking for without rebuilding the picture each time?

Start supplier check

Indicative, not diagnostic. Designed to sharpen the conversation.

Selected Work

Raising the Bar for the Coffee Industry: Regenerative Transition at Scale

Blue Bottle Coffee

Developing aspirational, industry-leading transition strategies for coffee origins in Mexico, Colombia, Peru, and Ethiopia

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Climate Resilient Design for Arabica and Robusta Coffee in Nicaragua

Lavazza

Cropping concept development through a collaborative process that involves farmers, exporters, and the roaster

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Turning a Healthy Snack Company’s Family Farm Into a Regenerative Innovation Site

Artisan Tropic

Farm design that shows the possibilities of regeneratively grown cassava and plantain in diversified agroforestry systems

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Collaborating With Timberland and Smallholders to Bring Cotton Back to Haiti

SFA Haiti

Partnering with smallholder farmers on the long-term development of regenerative cotton in Haiti. Resulting in the first shoe brought to market with Haitian cotton.

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Leading Research on Scaling Regenerative Agriculture With Smallholder Farmers

Rockefeller Foundation | Regen 10

Series of studies that explore the financial viability of smallholder farming and pathways to scale regenerative agriculture through innovation & crop diversification

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Innovating Conservation: Reconciling Orangutan Habitat With Regenerative Palm Oil

SOS Sumatra | Faith in Nature

Conducting a study to assess the feasibility of integrating wildlife corridors for orangutans with regenerative palm oil agroforestry in Sumatra

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We are being asked to comply with EUDR, CSRD, SBTi FLAG, and other frameworks. Each one feels like a separate project. Is there a better way?

Yes. Many of these frameworks draw from overlapping origin-level information: geolocation, land-use history, supply-chain structure, production practices, ecological condition, and social indicators. When each requirement is treated as a separate project, teams end up rebuilding the same origin picture again and again. OriginWorks helps create a more integrated view, so compliance, sourcing, claims, and transition planning can work from the same foundation.

We have good relationships with our suppliers, but we don't really know what is happening below that level. How exposed does that make us?

Supplier relationships are important, but they are no longer enough on their own. Regulations, claims scrutiny, and sourcing-risk pressures increasingly require a clearer understanding of what is happening below the supplier level: production areas, land-use history, producer conditions, local governance, and ecological context. OriginWorks helps buyers move from supplier-level confidence to origin-level understanding.

We are making transition and sustainability claims, but we are not confident they would hold up under serious scrutiny. What do we need?

A structured, place-specific evidence base that connects the claim to real conditions and actions in the origin. Certifications and supplier declarations can play a role, but they rarely provide the full transition picture on their own. OriginWorks helps clarify what evidence exists, what is missing, and what would make a sourcing, transition, or resilience claim more defensible.

Get an initial read on where your origin exposure sits. Indicative, not diagnostic.

Why is it so hard to find origins that are actually ready to receive capital?

Many promising origins are not investment-ready on paper, even when the underlying potential is real. Ecological conditions, producer capacity, supply-chain relationships, risks, and transition opportunities often sit in different places and formats. OriginWorks helps assemble that fragmented picture into a clearer origin read, so funders can see what is already in place, what still needs to be strengthened, and whether capital can realistically land.

We keep commissioning due diligence and still do not feel confident about what we are investing in. Why?

Traditional due diligence often answers one narrow question at one point in time. But origin-level investment decisions depend on a wider picture: ecological condition, supply-chain structure, governance capacity, producer viability, and transition risk. OriginWorks helps connect these dimensions so the findings inform not only an investment decision, but also sequencing, support needs, and ongoing stewardship.

Our MRV and LP reporting requirements are getting more demanding, but the data coming from origin level is not keeping up. What can we do?

Reporting challenges often start because origin-level information was never collected or organised with future use in mind. OriginWorks helps identify what data already exists, what is missing, and how origin-level evidence can be structured to support credible reporting, MRV, and investment decisions over time. The goal is not more data for its own sake, but a clearer foundation for decisions and accountability.

Start with a quick read on capital readiness. Indicative, not diagnostic.

Our buyers are asking for data and documentation we don't have. How do we respond without losing the relationship?

It is difficult to respond well when buyers ask for documentation that was never required before. The key is to avoid one-off, reactive responses and build a clearer origin record that can support multiple buyer conversations over time. OriginWorks helps suppliers understand what buyers are really asking for, what information already exists, and what needs to be strengthened to protect and deepen commercial relationships.

We know there is more value in what we produce than what we are paid for it. How do we access transition premiums, better finance, or more committed buyers?

Often the value is real, but not yet legible to the people making sourcing or finance decisions. Transition premiums, preferred sourcing relationships, and blended-finance opportunities usually require more than a good story. They require credible evidence of practices, producer conditions, ecological trajectory, governance, and transition potential. OriginWorks helps make that value visible and actionable.

We are producing something genuinely differentiated, but buyers treat us the same as everyone else. Why?

Buyers under compliance and claims pressure need evidence they can trust and use internally. When better practices, stronger producer relationships, or ecological improvements are not documented in a structured way, they are easy to overlook. OriginWorks helps translate real origin-level differentiation into a clearer record that buyers and funders can understand.

See where your origin documentation is strong, and what may be missing. Indicative, not diagnostic.

We do serious work at origin level but we can't seem to translate it into something that unlocks capital or buyer commitments. Why not?

Often the work is strong, but it is not yet framed in the terms buyers and funders need to act on. Local capacity-building, producer relationships, ecological restoration, and coordination work need to be translated into investment readiness, sourcing relevance, risk reduction, and transition pathways. OriginWorks helps make that bridge.

We are coordinating multiple actors across the same origin, but everyone seems to be working from a different picture. How do we fix that?

Usually the issue is not lack of commitment. It is that each actor is working from a different picture of the origin: different assessments, different priorities, different assumptions, and different time horizons. OriginWorks helps create a shared read of the origin so coordination can move from parallel activity toward aligned action.

We have been building relationships and capacity at origin for years, but we are not being recognised or compensated for that work by funders and buyers. How do we change that?

Years of relationship-building and capacity work often remain invisible because they are not documented in a form external actors can recognise. OriginWorks helps make that contribution visible: what capacity has been built, what risks have been reduced, what local trust exists, and what transition potential has been created. That can strengthen the case for funding, partnership, or a more central role in the origin strategy.

Explore how OriginWorks could support your origin or landscape initiative. No obligation.