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 our Food System
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
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 grant to the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy for student competitions focusing on multidisciplinary innovations to improve the food system.
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
Multiyear grant to support the ‘Impact Goal Initiatives' at the Institute on the Environment focusing on food system transformations.
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 / Kenya
Grant to the Department of Agricultural Engineering in the Tropic and Subtropics for solar-biomass hybrid drying of maize cobs in Rwanda.
High Impact Innovation to Improve our Food System
Institute of Food Technologists
Sponsoring the Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge to inspire food system innovations to improve the health of people and the planet.
Second Harvest Heartland, Minnesota
Grant to initiate new innovation initiatives.
Food System 6 (FS6)
Grant to accelerate community-led innovations addressing food security across the United States.
Scalable Pilots for Post Harvest, Food Processing, and Digital Innovations in Africa
Bountifield International
Providing 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
Providing a 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, Germany / Malawi, Uganda, and Zimbabwe
Multiyear grant to promote ‘Digital Innovations for Zero Hunger’ (Part II).