Seeding the Future Challenge Winners Create Connections to Drive Change
Three of the 14 winners of the second annual Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge shared their respective visions for improving the global food system in the Tuesday morning keynote at IFT FIRST.
To kick off day two of IFT FIRST, Bernhard van Lengerich, founder of the Seeding The Future Foundation, sat down with representatives from three of the 14 organizations that were awarded funding in the second annual Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge to share their respective visions for improving the global food system. Moderated by Michiel de Ruiter, chairman of the European Institute of Technology, Food Division, the discussion began with van Lengerich telling attendees about the…
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