2021 Past Winners Podcast Discussion
Episode 32: Global Food System Challenge Grand Prize Winners
Join us to celebrate the Global Food System Challenge Grand Prize Winners. Representatives from the International Rice Research Institute, Solar Freeze, and WorldFish discuss their work and the role that the generous funding from Seeding The Future Foundation plays in helping to make healthier diets more accessible and empowers consumers to make choices benefitting both personal and planetary health.
Episode 33: Global Food System Challenge Growth Grant Winners
Join us to celebrate the Global Food System Challenge Growth Grant Winners. Representatives from Food Systems for the Future (FSF Institute), iDE Global, and the African Center for Technology Studies discuss their work and the role that the generous funding from Seeding The Future Foundation plays in helping to make healthier diets more accessible and empowers consumers to make choices benefitting both personal and planetary health.
Seeding The Future Grand Prize Winners
Awarded for innovations that are scalable, economically feasible, trusted, and compelling to consumers, and have demonstrated major impact potential to transform the food system.
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Awarded for its work to eliminate Aflatoxin from smallholder supply chains. Acceso is working to eradicate dangerous aflatoxins in smallholder supply chains, starting with peanuts in Haiti. This system utilizes an innovative combination of economic incentives, rigorous testing, and strategic logistics which prevents aflatoxin contamination at the farmer, buyer, and consumer levels.
Awarded for their work in commercializing black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) as chicken feed to enhance egg nutrition and lower the cost of eggs in Rwanda. FSF Institute is working with the Rwanda Ministry of Agriculture and technical partner Protix Ltd. to develop Africa's first fully automated black soldier fly larvae production facility. This innovative facility will sustainably and cost-effectively scale poultry production and make it easier and more affordable for consumers to access nutritious, protein-rich eggs. FSF Institute was awarded the Growth Grant in 2021.
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Awarded for its arsenic safe rice project which will deploy newly developed arsenic-excluding rice varieties that are much safer for human consumption in target arsenic-polluted regions to create socioeconomic and human health benefits.
Awarded for its project on portable, solar-powered cold storage units for rural smallholder farmers of perishable produce, reducing post-harvest food loss that currently accounts for over 45%t of fresh produce waste among rural farmers in developing countries.
Awarded for its homestead aquaculture project to bring sustainable, nutrient-rich small fish production to small scale actors for a healthy and affordable option for consumers especially those who need it most such as young children, and pregnant and lactating women.
Growth Grant Winners
Awarded for demonstrating their innovation is doable and has projected both economic feasibility at scale and high impact potential to transform the food system.
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Awarded for its Aquaponics Social Enterprise program which accelerates the deployment of a simplified, adaptable form of aquaponics, combining soilless crop production and fish farming in a closed symbiotic system, to increase global food production in the face of climate change and transition historically marginalized populations from subsistence to sustainable livelihoods. INMED Partnerships for Children was awarded the Seed Grant in 2021.
Awarded for their Smart Agri-Centres, a community-led solar powered cold storage program that uses energy as a catalyst for rural development. Smart Villages focuses on using energy to enable access to improved agricultural techniques and practices, which in turn can improve quality of life in multiple ways.
Awarded for its Farmers Post Program, which leverages the US Postal Service (USPS) as a significant yet underutilized asset to help bring fresh produce from farms to front doors across the United States. Farmers Post has the potential to transform how we get food from farms to consumers, benefitting farmers, consumers, the environment, and the USPS. WWF’s Farmer’s Post project was awarded the Seed Grant in 2021.
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Awarded for its project which promotes access to solar drying technologies to smallholder farmers; thus, providing optimal dehydration of fresh produce.
Awarded for its use of black soldier fly larvae to overcome the poultry and aquaculture industry feed affordability challenge.
Awarded for its community-managed vermicompost fertilizer enterprises that incorporate Trichoderma - speeding up the composting process.
Seed Grant Winners
In addition to the Grand Prize and Growth Grant winners, IFT also awarded eight Seed Grants. Recipients include:
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Chandra Associates, “CAFRESH-Connecting the Food Supply Chain” Kly, “Upcycling Food Waste Through Fermentation” MAVUNOLAB, “Preventing Postharvest Fish Losses through Low-cost and Mobile Solar-Drying Technologies in Tanzania” Nurture Posterity International, “NutriPosh composite flour for improved school diet in Uganda” QuantumHeights GmbH, “Innovative Contributions for Process Improvement of the National School Feeding Programme in Mozambique” |
Radices Bio, “Commercialization of a Novel Microbiome-based Synbiotic Food Ingredient to Support Heart Health in Aging and Minority Populations” University of Dar es Salaam, “Micronutrient Profile and Household Use of Indigenous Crops in Tanzania” Welthungerhilfe, “Mobile Vertical Gardens for Refugees and Internally Displaced People” Yayasan Kopernik, “Farmer's Livelihood Support” |
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ASSOCIATION 3535 Center for Nanoscience and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (Supported by O-PSA to GoI) EatWell Meal Kits INMED Partnerships for Children |
Kenya Industrial Research and Development Institute Tanzania Environment Management Catalyst University of Missouri World Wildlife Fund |
Challenge Funding
Funded by the Seeding The Future Foundation, the Challenge focuses on scalable and high impact innovations that reside at the intersection of three domains: safe and nutritious food for a healthy diet; sustainably produced; and accessible, appealing, affordable, and trusted by consumers.