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For Our Producers,
For Our Planet.
A Conservation Agriculture Organization Advancing Fair, Practical Solutions in Rural America
Farmers and ranchers play a vital role in improving soil health, water quality, and climate resilience. Yet current programs often don’t reflect the full public value of this stewardship. As one of the nation’s leading conservation organizations, Rural Investment to Protect Our Environment (RIPE) is working toward a future in which conservation agriculture, soil health, and renewable energy adoption are rewarded.
Our work strengthens rural communities, reduces greenhouse gas emissions, and expands access to regerative practices through programs built with producers, not for them.
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Our Vision
A rural landscape where producers and communities can thrive through a system that values and pays the environmental benefits of conservation agriculture, soil health, clean water, and climate-smart stewardship.
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Our Mission
To advance a fair, bipartisan, producer-led approach that pays agricultural producers for the full public value of voluntary conservation practices.
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Our Goal
To scale conservation agriculture and renewable energy across American farmland, building a more resilient, profitable, and climate-ready agricultural system for generations to come.
Meeting Producers Where They Are
Our approach is guided directly by farmers, ranchers, commodity groups, and rural leaders across the country. Their lived experience informs every step of our work, from designing policy to shaping practical, scalable solutions for conservation agriculture and renewable energy adoption on American farms and ranches.
We focus on:
Soil health and conservation practices that increase land productivity.
Climate-smart, regenerative agriculture that reduces emissions and enhances long-term resilience.
Renewable energy on farmland that reduces operational costs for producers and supports energy independence for rural communities without compromising productive land.
Accessible, voluntary conservation programs that reward stewardship without adding red tape.
By financially and operationally de-risking the adoption of regenerative practices, we help producers continue to do what they do best:
feed the nation while caring for the land.
Producer-Led. Research-Backed. Bipartisan.
Our coalitions span diverse states, commodities, and perspectives. This breadth of voices ensures RIPE’s proposals are workable on real farms and appealing across the spectrum. Our Board of Directors is majority-producer, representing a wide range of operation sizes and geographies.
This producer-led structure allows us to build conservation programs that funders can trust: grounded in evidence, strengthened by lived experience, and shaped through genuine rural collaboration.
Why Funders Partner With RIPE
A proven approach to impact
Those seeking meaningful impact across conservation, agriculture, climate, nutrition, and rural communities choose RIPE because:
Scalable Model
Our model scales, making it easy for funders to engage in conservation programs with national relevance.
Measurable Impact
Our programs deliver measurable environmental benefits tied to regenerative and climate-smart agriculture.
Bipartisan Solutions
Our bipartisan foundation enables solutions that can advance policy, funding mechanisms, and implementation.
Rural Prosperity
Our approach strengthens rural prosperity, ensuring producers see real economic value for their stewardship.
Supporting Real Progress
Supporting RIPE means investing in practical environmental progress grounded in the everyday reality of America’s producers.
Join Us in Advancing Fair, Effective Conservation
As one of America’s forward-thinking conservation organizations, RIPE is committed to building a more resilient agricultural future, one that benefits the land, the climate, and the communities that steward both.
Support Our Work
Help make sustainable food systems more accessible and affordable while strengthening rural communities.
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Rural Investment to Protect our Environment (RIPE) is a 501c(3) organization working to advance a fair value for voluntary agricultural stewardship. Our leadership & coalition members are located across the United States, and we maintain our charter office in Washington DC.