Food Technology Magazine | Innovation

Evolving Seeds of Change

This year’s Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge winners boast unique innovations and programs with the power to shape a global food system that is more sustainable, equitable, and nutritious.

By Kayt Sukel
A fungal herbicide supplied by the Toothpick Company allows farmers in Africa to combat a pervasive threat to crops

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…

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About the Author

Kayt Sukel is a book author, magazine writer, and public speaker who frequently covers scientific topics ([email protected]).
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