Oorja Development Solutions Limited: Scaling Climate-Smart Farming Solutions: Bundling Pay-Per-Use Irrigation with Sustainable Advisory Services for Smallholders (India). Oorja provides a Pay-Per-Use farm-based service package to smallholder farmer in India, including water pumps powered by decentralized solar energy. Oorja’s comprehensive package also includes soil testing, seed supply, on-site training in sustainable practices, and a mobile app.

Savory Institute: KENYA MARA Regenerating Traditional Foods, Lands & Livelihoods through Maasai Conservancies (United States). Savory Institute’s Kenya MARA program helps Maasai herders graze their livestock on nature conservancies, supporting land regeneration and their traditional animal-based diet.

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Institute – Savanah Agricultural Research Institute (CSIR-SARI): Developing an NIR Tool for Rapid Screening of Aflatoxin-Resistant Groundnuts to Combat Aflatoxin Contamination (Ghana). The Savanna Agricultural Research Institute’s goal is to use near-infrared technology (NIR) tool to identify aflatoxin contamination in peanuts and reduce it with two naturally occurring antifungal metabolites found in peanut seed coats. This two-pronged approach is a sustainable solution to farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially northern Ghana.

Toothpick Company Limited.: Breakthrough Bioherbicide Technology Improves Food and Economic Security for Small-scale Farmers (Kenya). Toothpick Project produces an innovative bioherbicide from fungus to protect crops in Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Ghana from Striga witchweed, a devastating pest for small-scale farmers. This safe and affordable herbicide is applied as a seed coating to restore crop yield.

Yayasan Kopernik: PANGAN Program: Revitalizing Indigenous Farming and Building a Sustainable Food System for a Climate-resistant Bioeconomy and Community (Indonesia). The PANGAN Program addresses food insecurity in West Timor by revitalizing indigenous farming practices, including promoting diverse and nutritious local food. PANGAN’s next phase pilots Local Food Hub, a scalable model connecting farmers and micro-agribusiness produce to local markets, building community and improving access to nutritious food.

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) on behalf of its HarvestPlus program for the development of nutrient-dense porridges for use in school feeding programs in Zambia. These porridges utilize biofortified traditional food crops that are farmed and produced by women as additional contributions to the household income. IFPRI and HarvestPlus aim to uplift and equip vulnerable youth to grow into healthy, productive adults.

Naandi Foundation for its implementation of ReGen, a synergistic regenerative agriculture model to support farmers transitioning away from conventional, chemical-based farming approaches in India. Prioritizing biodiversity over monocultures, regeneration over extraction, and biological agri-inputs over chemical, Naandi Foundation provides a variety of free materials and knowledge tools to help eliminate dependence on high-cost chemical fertilizers and pesticides and improve the health of soil ecosystems and the foods produced.

Association 3535 for establishing four solar cooling hubs and offering cold storage as a service to smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. By installing large, cold storage refrigerated containers and standalone cooling systems that are attachable to existing storehouses, Association 3535 – a 2021 Seed Grant winner – provides smallholder farmers and small-scale fishermen with the ability to keep produce fresh, reducing post-harvest losses and increasing food security and potential income.

Kopernik for its Pangan Initiative, addressing food insecurity in West Timor, Indonesia. By adopting an innovative approach that prioritizes the return to and use of indigenous farming practices, food preservation technologies, and a circular economy approach utilizing black soldier flies to convert organic and food waste into animal feed and compost for farming, the Pangan Initiative will create a more climate-resilient and self-sustaining food system and community.

Nurture Posterity International for its development of NutriPosh, nutritious and affordable composite flours for use in school feeding programs in Uganda. In addition to providing enhanced nutrition through the inclusion of pumpkin seeds in a stable composite Maize flour, NutriPosh sources ingredients produced through regenerative agricultural practices, utilizes solar powered dehydration technologies in their flour production, and uses biodegradable packaging. The NutriPosh approach ensures environmental sustainability across the entire supply chain. Nurture Posterity International is a 2022 Seed Grant winner.

2022 Grand Prize

For its work to eliminate Aflatoxin from smallholder supply chains, starting with peanuts in Haiti.

2022 Grand Prize and 2021 Growth Grant

For its work in commercializing black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) as chicken feed to enhance protein nutrition by lowering the cost of eggs in Rwanda.

2021 Grand Prize

Awarded for its arsenic safe rice project which will deploy newly developed arsenic-excluding rice varieties that are much safer for human consumption in target arsenic-polluted regions to create socioeconomic and human health benefits.

2021 Grand Prize

A project for portable, solar-powered cold storage units for perishable produce to serve rural smallholder farmers. The purpose is to reduce post-harvest food loss that currently accounts for over 45 percent of fresh produce going to waste among rural farmers in developing countries.

2021 Grand Prize

A homestead aquaculture project to bring sustainable, nutrient-rich small fish production to small-scale actors for a healthy and affordable option for consumers.

2022 Growth Grant

For their Aquaponics® Social Enterprise program, which combines soilless crop production and fish farming in a closed symbiotic system.

2022 Growth Grant

For its Smart Agri-Centres, a community-led solar powered cold storage program that uses energy as a catalyst for rural development.

2022 Growth Grant

For its Farmers Post Program, which leverages the US Postal Service (USPS) as a significant yet underutilized asset to help bring fresh produce from farms to front doors across the United States.

2021 Growth Grant

For its project to promote enhanced access to solar drying technologies to smallholder farmers; thus, providing optimal dehydration of fresh produce for enhanced product quality and post-harvest management.

2021 Growth Grant

A project to establish community-managed vermicompost fertilizer enterprises that incorporate Trichoderma, a beneficial fungus that improves plant growth and yields while speeding up the composting process to transform organic farm and household waste into nutritious food for rural communities.

2021 Growth Grant

A black soldier fly larvae project to overcome the poultry and aquaculture industry feed affordability challenge. Through a partnership with Protix, the team will design and scale commercial production to provide an alternative bsl protein as a protein supplement in animal feeds.