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.
Program Partnerships
Foundational Work in Academia and Research
Harvard University
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
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
Providing a 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
Provided the Transforming Food Systems Fund to deliver sustainable and inclusive health outcomes.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Provided multiyear underwriting grant to create the ‘Sustainable Food System Forum’ at the Institute on the Environment at University of Minnesota as a global platform for sustainable and equitable food systems transitions.
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.
Accelerate High Impact Innovations to Improve Food Systems Globally
Institute of Food Technologists
Funding the Annual Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge to inspire food system innovations to improve the health of people and the planet.
European Institute of Technology, EIT Food and Future Food Makers
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
Supporting grant for the Innovation Future Program.
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Aspen Institute, Food & Society
Support of multi year fellowship support for the Food Leaders Fellowship program.
Second Harvest Heartland, Minnesota
Grant for new innovation initiatives.
Food System 6 (FS6)
Grant to accelerate community-led innovations addressing food security across the United States.
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