ACCELERATING INNOVATION
We’re accelerating high-impact innovations to improve food systems globally.
We’re supporting multidisciplinary teams and innovative approaches to provide equitable access to safe, nutritious, and affordable food for everyone, while improving the long-term sustainability and resilience of our planet.
Partnering Organizations
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy
Overall Sponsor and FAO Partner of the 2025 World Food Forum Startup Innovation Awards and Transformational Research Awards, advancing youth-led, sustainable transformation of agrifood systems in support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Deutsche Welthungerhilfe, Bonn, Germany
Funding and partnering to advance the Annual Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge, inspiring scalable, impactful and transforming food systems innovations globally to improve the health of people and the planet.
European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Food and Future Food Makers, Brussels, Belgium
Grant to conduct a European wide youth competition to incentivize impactful team innovations that can transform the future food system and make it more equitable, sustainable and enable access to affordable, attractive and trusted food.
MIT SOLVE at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, US
Sponsor for the Seeding The Future Climate-Positive and Equitable Food Systems Prize
Supporting grant for the SOLVE Innovation Future Program.
Aspen Institute, Food & Society, Aspen, CO, US
Multiyear support for the Food Leaders Fellowship program.
Second Harvest Heartland, Minnesota, US
Multiyear Grant for innovation initiatives fighting hunger in Minnesota.
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