Food Technology Magazine | Innovation
A fungal herbicide supplied by the Toothpick Company allows farmers in Africa to combat a pervasive threat to crops, Striga hermonthica. Photo courtesy of Toothpick Company
For the past four years, IFT has hosted the annual Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge, founded and funded by the Seeding The Future Foundation. The purpose of the Challenge is to incentivize and accelerate transformative innovations to help make food systems more sustainable and equitable and deliver food that is safe and nutritious, affordable, appealing, and trusted.
Bernhard van Lengerich, founder of the Seeding The Future Foundation and former chief science officer and vice presi…