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Accelerating Innovation

We’re Accelerating High Impact Innovations to Improve Food Systems Globally

We’re supporting multidisciplinary teams and innovation 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 Start up Innovation Awards and Transformational Research Awards, advancing youth led, sustainable transformation of agrifood systems in support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s)


Deutsche Welthungerhilfe, Bonn, Germany

Funding and partnering to advance the Annual Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge , inspiring scaleable, impactful and transforming food systems innovations globally to improve the health of people and the planet.


European Institute of 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, Boston, MA, US


Aspen Institute, Food & Society, Aspen, CO, US

Support of multi year fellowship 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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