Food Planet Prize

It's here! The Food Planet Prize Longlist 2025. After rounds of screening, research, and evaluation of nearly a thousand nominations, our prize team has identified 39 initiatives that stand out from the rest.  “We are thrilled by the diversity of geographies and innovations of the initiatives represented,” says Emily Norford, The Food Planet Prize Nominations Manager. This year's longlist contains initiatives from 23 countries across six continents – from Uganda to the UK, China to Colombia. They illustrate how innovations can be technical in nature, but also social or nature-based. They show how impressive ideas can come from high-tech companies and grassroots NGOs. Our longlisted initiatives provide the world with carbon sequestration, improved soil health, clean water, food waste reductions, and many other benefits to the food planet. The Food Planet Prize 2025 longlist is the first major step towards finding this year’s winner. It also presents new, inspiring possibilities for our challenged food systems.  “The global food system holds the future of humanity on Earth in its hands”, says Johan Rockström, Co-Chair of the Food Planet Prize and Director of the PIK - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. In the coming days, we’ll be sharing more about the initiatives, so keep your eyes open! You can also find the full list on our site; see the link in the comments. #FoodPlanetPrize #EnvironmentalAward #GreenProjects #PeopleAndPlanet #ClimateResilience #FoodSystems #SustainableFoodSystems 

We are excited to share the second group of initiatives on the Food Planet Prize 2025 longlist! ⚫️  Enset Food Security Initiative (Kenya and Ethiopia)   Enset, known as “false banana”, is an Ethiopian drought-resilient crop helping to provide nutrition and social equity. (Alabaster International) ⚫️. Essential (Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania)  Essential tackles malnutrition by turning agricultural byproducts into Sub-Saharan Africa's first biomanufactured protein. ⚫️ Food Frontier (Australia)  Food Frontier promotes alternative proteins through industry expertise, dialogue, and policy advocacy. ⚫️ Gastromotiva (Brazil, Mexico)  Gastromotiva uses gastronomy as a catalyst for social transformation–improving food security, income generation, and sustainable development. ⚫️ GrowBox (South Africa)  GrowBox brings food gardens and agricultural skills to the communities that most need it. (GrowBox Nursery) ⚫️ LE LIONCEAU (Senegal)  Lionceau combats food insecurity and malnutrition in Africa by producing nutritious, locally sourced baby food while promoting agroforestry. ⚫️ Leanpath (USA, UK, China)  Leanpath has developed technology for food waste prevention and measurement in the food service sector.     ⚫️ Millow (Sweden)  Millow produces tastier and more efficient vegan foods with dry fermentation technology. Millow.co ⚫️ Mushuk Yuyay (Ecuador)  Mushuk Yuyay promotes the food sovereignty, agrobiodiversity, and ancient culture of the Kañari people. ⚫️ My Food is African (Uganda)  My Food is African levers agroecology and indigenous crops to build continent-wide food sovereignty. ⚫️ NanoFreeze (Colombia)  NanoFreeze uses bio-nanotechnology to provide low-carbon refrigeration solutions. ⚫️ NitroCapt AB (Sweden)  NitroCapt makes energy-efficient fertilizer through plasma-produced nitrate. ⚫️ OneFarm Share (South Africa)  OneFarm Share prevents food waste and improves local value chains by redistributing surplus produce and developing small-scale farms. - Stay tuned for the last group of initiatives on the longlist.

We’re thrilled to announce the first of three groups of initiatives on the Food Planet Prize 2025 longlist! ⚫️ Adaptive Symbiotic Technologies (USA)   Adaptive Symbiotic Technologies uses fungal endophytes and microbes to improve crop health. ⚫️ Afrotym (Uganda)  Afrotym has developed a granulate that keeps soils moist during dry spells, made from organic waste. ⚫️ AgriNatif (Haiti)  AgriNatif blends local traditional knowledge and regenerative practices to empower Haitian communities.   ⚫️ ANDFOODS (New Zealand)  ANDFOODS makes dairy alternatives through a lentil-based fermentation process. ⚫️ Astungkara Way (Indonesia)  Astungkara Way trains farmers to grow rice in a regenerative way, incorporating ducks, fish, a floating fern, and border crops. ⚫️ Aquatic Foods: Post-harvest losses and food waste reduction in Zambia  WorldFish implements an initiative in Zambia to increase food safety and improve nutrition security by reducing post-harvest losses in fish value chains. ⚫️ BioFiltro (USA, Chile, Peru)  BioFiltro uses earthworms and microbes to remove contaminants from organic waste, producing both clean water and vermicompost. ⚫️ CELLULAR AGRICULTURE LTD (UK)  Cellular Agriculture maximizes production efficiency of cultivated proteins through hollow fiber membrane systems.  ⚫️ Climate Smart Farming Program (Australia)  Through this program, Farmers for Climate Action champions climate-smart farming solutions and economy-wide policy action.  ⚫️ Comida do Amanhã Institute (Brazil)  Comida do Amanhã supports the transition to healthy, inclusive, biodiverse, and sustainable food systems in Brazil and beyond. ⚫️ CuanTec (UK)  CuanTec repurposes shellfish waste to make the multi-functional biopolymer chitosan. ⚫️ D-Olivette (Nigeria)  The 1,000,000 Closed-Loop Farms Project provides communities with electricity, cooking fuel, fertilizer, and feed by turning waste into biogas. - Stay tuned for the next group of initiatives on the longlist. 

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Meet Emily Norford and Hanna Rut Carlsson, our dedicated nominations team. With the Food Planet Prize 2025 longlist coming soon, let’s take a moment to introduce the people working tirelessly to find those with the greatest potential to contribute to a sustainable food system. ⚫️ Emily, our Nominations Manager, leads the process of receiving, synthesizing, and evaluating nominated initiatives. Before joining the Food Planet Prize, Emily focused on urban food systems at EAT, a global nonprofit devoted to transforming food systems. She has also held positions at the World Resources Institute, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Environmental Law Institute. In addition to food systems, her work has spanned sustainable cities, climate, governance, renewable energy access, natural resources, and environmental and social safeguards. “Food is an exciting topic because it brings together communities with diverse perspectives and priorities. I entered the food systems space because of food’s climate impact, which allowed me to connect with people motivated by nutrition, farmer livelihoods, or biodiversity. A healthy and sustainable diet are often one and the same.” ⚫️ Hanna Rut Carlsson, our Nominations Coordinator, assists Emily in the evaluation process and is in charge of screening new nominations. She holds an MSc in Social-Ecological Systems for Sustainable Development from the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC). She specializes in sustainable food systems and has researched food systems modelling at the SRC. Beyond research, Hanna has worked with sustainability issues at Albaeco and through volunteer engagements across Argentina, Denmark, and Sweden. She has also published the ecocritical novel Sista hösten i Legoland (link in comments). “I love working with food systems because food is such an essential need. Every person depends on it daily, and sustainability’s complex challenges ultimately come down to one clear goal: ensuring we have good food on our plates.” ⚫️ Stay tuned for the Food Planet Prize 2025 longlist! #FoodPlanetPrize #FoodSystems

Exciting news from the Food Planet Prize 2020 winner ICIPE - International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology!

Whilst in Stockholm for this years awards ceremony with Food Planet Prize I got to meet amazing people and innovations working to support, save and innovate across our food systems. From cooking, eating, cooling, agriculture and much more. We have to look deeply at our food systems and food security across the planet. Food Planet Prize is shining a massive light on this and investing in vital work being done to meet this global catastrophic crisis. Massive shifts have to occur to enable people across the globe to eat nutritious meals, against the backdrop of climate change, rising energy poverty, massive famines and global disruptions to Our entire planet. And not to forget conflict zones. I Really enjoyed talking passionately to Dan Saladino on #BBCRadio4FoodProgram about Wonderbag’s success in transforming food security and changing the way the world cooks. In the face of climate change and a global energy crisis, our work feels more crucial than ever. 2.3 billion people still cook over open fires every day and that comes at a significant cost to both their health and the planet. Not only that, but in these areas all too often it is women that are burdened with the tasks of firewood collection and cooking, making it impossible for them to pursue eduction, employment or entrepreneurial activities. Wonderbag ‘s turn firewood collection from a daily to weekly task - with each bag saving approximately seven trees a year from deforestation - and give women and girls back around 1300 hours a year. But it's not just in the developing world where the Wonderbag has a role to play, global events this year have shown us that we all need to reduce our reliance on cooking fuels in a time of limited resources and when urgent action is needed to curb the climate crisis. You can listen to the conversation with Dan from around 32 mins, to hear more about Wonderbag , everyone needs to understand the need to change the way they cook, from rural Africa to Aberdeen and London. I am excited to be joining forces with some powerful leaders in food security across the UK and around the world. Join us from your kitchen. And THANK YOU to those that care. #wonderbag #foodsecurity #energypoverty #cleancooking #bbc4 #foodprogramme #cleancookingforall

We congratulate our jury member Franco Fubini Franco Fubini ,on his first book “In Search of the Perfect Peach” ! The launch is just in two days, and if you’re in London be sure to book your ticket for the presentation and a panel discussion featuring Magnus Nilsson, the Curt Bergfors Foundation director general, and Dan Saladino , presenter of Radio 4 Food Programme! Tickets include a welcome drink and seasonal snacks from Tate Corner Bar. 20% of proceeds will go to Natoora’s Farm Fund, raising up the next generation of agroecological growers. https://lnkd.in/dxVuK4rT

Meet us in Turin at Terra Madre Salone del Gusto Slow Food ! With more than 3000 delegates from over 120 countries and 350,000 visitors, Terra Madre is the largest international event dedicated to good, clean, and fair food and food politics. ⠀ Over the years, this biennial event has engaged various issues and topics as Slow Food endeavours to envision and realize a better future through food. This edition, held in Turin from September 26th to 30th, will be an incubator of solutions for transforming food systems. ⠀ Food Planet Prize Director General Magnus Nilsson and Nominations Manager Emily Norford will participate in several panels, so be sure to check the event’s program to avoid missing anything! ⠀ Our booth will be open all days of the event, offering you the opportunity to learn first-hand about the Prize and nominate your favorite initiatives in the food systems right on the spot! We are always excited to meet new friends and explain what makes The Food Planet Prize different from many awards and why your nominations and spreading the word matter! ⠀ See you soon! ⠀ #TerraMadre2024 #foodplanetprize #wearenature #foodsystems

🏆 Miljöprofessorn Johan Rockström och stjärnkocken Magnus Nilsson har delat ut 21 miljoner kronor till en organisation som främjar hållbar mat i städer. C40 Cities Food Planet Prize #foodtech #climatetech