We support impactful initiatives that create innovations able to transform food systems to be more regenerative, nutritious, and equitable for everyone in alignment with our vision.
We focus on three programs.
Support Foundational Work in Academia and Research
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.
Accelerate High Impact Innovations to Improve Food Systems Globally
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.
Conduct Scalable Pilots for Post Harvest and Food Processing in Africa
Supporting non-profit organizations to reduce post harvest loss, establish economically sustainable and scalable business models for micro-entrepreneurs and smallholder farmers, and support small food processing enterprises to improve food safety and nutritional quality.
Programs and Partnerships
Accelerate High Impact Innovations to Improve Food Systems Globally
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy
Overall Sponsor and 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
Sponsor for the Climate-Positive and Equitable Food Systems Prize
Supporting grant for the SOLVE Innovation Future Program.
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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.
Foundational Work in Academia and Research
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.
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
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.
Conduct Scalable Pilots for Post Harvest and Food Processing in Africa
iDE
Provided a multi-year grant for a comprehensive pilot program in Kenya to deploy robust technologies to reduce post harvest loss and create income opportunities for smallholder farmers and rural micro-entrepreneurs.
Partners in Food Solutions
Multi-year grant for the ‘Growing Kenya’ program which focuses on supporting small food processing enterprises, food safety, and exploring a new apprenticeship model.
Welthungerhilfe, e.V. Germany (Focus: Africa)
Grants for multiple initiatives to help accelerate the path to reaching the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #2, Zero Hunger
Seeding the Future with WHH Innovation Lab
Digital Innovations for Zero Hunger
Digital Literacy Clinics – Overcoming the digital divide
Empowering SMEs in the food processing sector to enhance sustainable and resilient food production systems in Liberia