The pioneer of systems thinking, Donella Meadows, offers this definition of the work in her essay Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System: So how do you change paradigms? In a nutshell, you keep pointing at the anomalies and failures in the old paradigm, you keep coming yourself, loudly and with assurance from the new one, and you insert

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Systems-emergence solutions are nonlinear and decentralized; change requires finding places to experiment within subsystems to shake them up and cause ripple effects (Boulton et al., 2015). Systems-emergence work does not attempt to describe the characteristics of a healthy system, but it often does describe the outcomes the system should be able... See more

The paper draws on Donella Meadows’ notion of “deep leverage points” – places to intervene in a system where adjustments can make a big difference to the overall outcomes.

These points are the spaces where funders and investors should crowd capital into in order to enable the transformation — in this case the transition to regenerative agriculture. This is therefore the crux of the mapping process, essential for funders and investors to understand. It is key to note that leverage points are interlinked — in many... See more