Nourishⁿ accelerates the overlap of biological, cultural, and economic vitality in society — what we call Nourishment Economies.

Our central organization and global coalition works to spark and spread social and business enterprises, governance protocols, and enabling infrastructure towards this goal. We do this through real-time partnerships, research and analyses, and idea-and-action convenings with entrepreneurs and activists, scientists, and supporters around the world.

While we launched Nourishⁿ in 2016 to build on patterns we’d seen for several years, the urgencies and opportunities in this work  keep growing.  Erratic weather conditions and COVID-19 keep drawing more and more attention to food systems and links to cultural resiliency. Attention is increasing on implications of climate change for foods systems, and conversely on farming’s  impact on climate change (in positive and negative ways). Social and scientific  priorities are sharpening around the role of biodiversity in driving healthy and sustainable water, air, disease remediation, peacemaking and more. All of this  builds on the patterns and fuels the forces we see stimulating more adaptive and regenerative economic, social, and environmental development.

The foundation underlying our work is the wide range of benefits that result when social or business approaches cycle the resources that generate a wide spectrum of nutrients between land, plants, animals and people and back again, spawning regenerative rather than purely extractive economies and ecologies. 

Depending on local circumstance, these benefits often include better nutrition and healthier people, pollution reduction, more productive agriculture (including longer growing seasons, more resilient soils and water systems in the face of disruptions and disasters, and higher quality and more flavorful and culturally relevant foods in mainstream and marginalized communities), adaptive product supply chains, carbon capture, reduction of risks to biodiversity, cultural integrity within and between communities, economic development and other substantial gains.

Leading social entrepreneurs in over 50 countries created the technological, financial, and social approaches that led Nourishⁿ  to these insights. We now work to connect, support, evolve, and help bring these to bear in new settings. Examples include innovations in livestock farming combined with biodiversity tourism in Irish communities, a food-and-wildlife-and-carbon conservation company  working with over 220,000 rural small farmers in Zambia, indigenous communities and health insurance providers in the United States, biodiversity data and labeling standards in Belgium, farmer-to-market learning networks in India and France, and many more. The Resources section of this web site provides some details and examples.

Science advisers help inform, interpret and provoke further innovation in this work.

Nourishⁿ supports practical and often unconventional approaches that cultivate cyclical or regenerative relationships between economic-, biological-, and cultural nourishment in communities and nations.