A global food system that improves the health of people and the planet.
We seed and accelerate innovative, multidisciplinary, and scalable approaches to help create solutions that sustainably improve the food supply and reduce chronic hunger.
Winners of Growth Grants and Grand Prizes Announced for Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge
The USD $1 million Challenge, which received more than 900 submissions from 78 countries this year, is focused on high-impact innovations that lead to significant food system advances.
Featured Project
In this innovative collaboration, students were tasked with developing solutions to critical issues in food sustainability—ranging from food waste reduction to the sustainable production of food and changes in dietary habits. These Solutions were assessed for their impact, innovativeness, feasibility, clarity, and presentation quality by a panel including Dr. Bernhard van Lengerich, Dr. Sparsha Saha (Lecturer on Government and course instructor), and Teaching Fellows from Harvard Kennedy School. Students engaged deeply with the challenge, offering pitches and detailed plans, to mirror the larger-scale impacts envisioned by STF’s Global Food System Challenge.
Harvard University’s Great Food Transformation course (GOV1318) partnered with the Seeding the Future Foundation (STF) 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
Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge
This Challenge seeks to inspire and support creative, diverse, and multidisciplinary teams to create game-changing innovations that will help transform the food system. Competitive grants and prizes will be awarded for innovations targeting the white space where three domains intersect: safe and nutritious food; sustainably produced; and accessible, appealing, affordable, and trusted by the consumer. The domains reside within a food policy framework where innovations can either be implemented within an existing policy framework, or change or create policy.
Transformational changes are needed in the global food system.
Our vision is a sustainable and resilient global food system that always provides equitable access to safe and nutritious food for everyone; food that is affordable, appealing and trusted, and that improves the health of people and our planet.
Inspiring innovation across cultures to improve the lives of people around the world.
Advances and discoveries in science and technology, as well as creative new approaches and collaborations across disciplines will lead to solutions that result in significant food system changes and impact people's lives.