FEWL Solutions Proposal

Dual-Use Agricultural Land Strategy Development

Project Leads:

Joe Matta, Founder
Blake Angelo, Co-Founder

Executive Summary:
FEWL is an early stage project development and investment firm with the mission to restore vibrancy to our critical life-sustaining systems across food, energy, water, and land (hence the acronym FEWL). We work within food systems as our primary system boundary and maintain a focus on potential cross-sector impact opportunities (e.g., energy use and water use in agriculture). We believe our purpose is to build a competitive alternative to traditional agribusiness, that is restorative, resilient, cross-sector, and community-based.

This project will entail researching and evaluating a potential business model and business strategy for the build-out and scaling of “Dual-Use” Agricultural Land (i.e., integration of both photovoltaics both regenerative/sustainable agricultural management on the same parcel of land) in the American West. We would like to engage a cross-sector group of students ideally between sustainable food systems and renewable energy specializations. The goal of the project is to develop a regionally specific business model and business strategy for the development of dual-use agricultural land projects in the western region of the United States, particularly the region surrounding and including Colorado.

Key words:
Regenerative agriculture, renewable energy, land management, multi-use land planning

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