The Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge is an annual innovation challenge hosted by Welthungerhilfe (WHH) and funded by the Seeding The Future Foundation. The Challenge recognizes and supports breakthrough ideas capable of transforming food systems, especially in the Global South.
If you are working on innovative solutions in nutrition, sustainability, agriculture, climate action, food security, or food systems transformation, the Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge offers a unique opportunity to scale impactful work.
The Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge aims to accelerate transformative innovations across food systems. Hosted by Welthungerhilfe, an organization deeply engaged in hunger reduction, food security, nutrition improvement, climate resilience, and humanitarian response, the Challenge encourages solutions that address structural food system issues globally.
Welthungerhilfe’s broader work can be explored through their sections on
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Hunger Facts and Figures: https://www.welthungerhilfe.org/hunger
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Food Systems: https://www.welthungerhilfe.org/our-work/what-we-do/food-systems
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Climate Action: https://www.welthungerhilfe.org/our-work/what-we-do/climate-action
The Challenge brings these themes together by supporting innovations capable of delivering long-term, equitable, and sustainable transformation.
All submissions to the Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge must align with the Challenge’s three intersecting focus areas:
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Safe and Nutritious Food
Innovations improving access to safe, healthy, and nourishing food for all. -
Sustainable or Regenerative Practices
Solutions enabling food systems to operate within planetary boundaries, including reduction of food loss and food waste. -
Equitable Access to Food
Approaches ensuring availability of food that is affordable, appealing, and trusted.
These domains define the Innovation Focus Area at the core of the Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge, guiding the evaluation of all proposals.
To be eligible for an award, the innovation must be impactful and lead to new advances that benefit at least one but ideally more than one of the intersecting domains of the Innovation Focus Area, shown in the diagram, while not negatively affecting any of the other domains. Innovations that benefit two or more domains and are at an advanced development stage are eligible for the highest award levels.
The definition of innovation in the context of this challenge is: A novel idea, approach, concept or technology that is
- practicable,
- economically feasible, and
- leads to a significant benefit for people or the environment.