Advancing
Knowledge
We’re Supporting Foundational
Work in Academia and Research
We’re assessing how food system innovations can be supported by food policy, benchmarking global policy best practices, and supporting research, education, and innovation opportunities in science and technology.
Partnering Institutions
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany
Providing multiyear funding for research on ‘Nitrogen Dynamics in Global Biogeochemical Cycles and Food System Transformation Pathways’.
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, US
Partnering with Harvard University’s Great Food Transformation Course and launched the Harvard x STF Mini-Challenge to empower students to devise innovative, sustainable food solutions, mirroring the impact of the Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge.
UCLA Law, Resnick Institute, Los Angeles, CA, US
Supporting global food policy initiatives at the Resnick Center to research, select, and analyze best practices in food regulation from countries around the world to foster best governing strategies in the regulation of food.
University of Minnesota, Institute on the Environment (IoE), Minnesota, MN, US
Supporting annual Impact Goal Initiative to accelerate solutions to sustainability challenges through high impact collaborative initiatives
Tufts University, Boston, MA, US
Providing multi year support to the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy for the Seeding The Future Food System Innovation Lab
Project DRAWDOWN, St.Paul, Minnesota, MN, US
Provided Funds for a multiyear Drawdown Food Initiative focusing on finding climate solutions in food, agriculture and land use sector
UC Davis Innovation Institute for Food and Health, Davis, CA, US
Provided inaugural funding for Transforming Food Systems Initiative to deliver sustainable and inclusive health outcomes.
Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Germany (Kenya)
Multiyear grant for Tephra based soil fertilization in Kenya to improve crop yield through plant phosphorus nutrition to increase and decrease of the toxic aluminum-uptake.
University of Hohenheim, Germany (Rwanda)
Grant to the Department of Agricultural Engineering in the Tropic and Subtropics for solar-biomass hybrid drying of maize cobs in Rwanda.
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