Dynamic. Transformative. Impactful. The 2025 submissions reflect an inspiring diversity from app-smart production to nutrient-dense foods to food loss reduction and inclusive market models – highlighting the creativity and commitment needed to tackle today’s interconnected food system challenges.
After the first evaluation, 36 teams will advance to the next selection process for the Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge. Among them 16 Seed Grant Finalists competing for 8 awards of USD 25,000, 12 Growth Grant Semifinalists competing for 3 awards of USD 100,000, and 8 Seeding The Future Grand Prize Semifinalists competing for 2 awards of USD 250,000.
Seeding The Future Grand Prize Semi-Finalists
- CNF Global: Tototamu Bar: Upcycled, Fermented Nutrition Bars Improving Child Health, Empowering Women, And Reducing Post-harvest Losses (Kenya).
- ZTN Technology PLC: Solar-Powered IoT Smart Irrigation Monitoring and Controlling system for Climate Resilience in Off-Grid Ethiopia (Ethiopia).
- One Acre Fund: Affordable, Nutritious Alternative Protein: From Smallholder Fields to Every Rwandan Kitchen (Rwanda).
- Sanku: Ending Malnutrition For 100 Million People by Ensuring Every Meal Contains Lifesaving Nutrients (Tanzania).
- Nabahya Food Institute (NFI): Sustainable Nutritional Solutions from Agro-Resources through Farmer Field Schools in Lubumbashi (Democratic Republic of the Congo).
- ABALOBI: Fisher Led Digital Food System Transformation for Equitable, Traceable and Climate Smart Seafood (South Africa).
- metaBIX Biotech: AI-Driven Biosurveillance to Anticipate Animal Diseases and Protect Global Food Security (Uruguay).
- Nurture Posterity International: NutriPosh Scaling Inclusive School Nutrition Through Fortified, Data-Enabled Foods for Learning and Climate Resilience (Uganda).
Growth Grant Semi-Finalists
- Baobaby: Feeding Tomorrow: Scaling Women-Led Solutions to Fight Baby Malnutrition with Climate-Resilient Indigenous Crops (Togo).
- Safi International Technologies Inc.: Expanding Safi's Reach to Climate-Displaced Populations in Rwanda (Canada).
- Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT): Biofortified Rice And Wheat For Nutrition Security (BRAWN) (Mexico).
- Farmlab Yeranda Agrisolution Producer Company Limited: Regenerating Soils, Nourishing Communities: Scaling Farm Labs for Safe Food in India and Nigeria (India).
- Banco de Alimentos Santa Fe (BASFE): BASFE in the Territory (Argentina).
- Chartered Consilorum (Pty) Ltd: Earth Observation Systems Architecture for Food Insecurity Reduction in Climate-Vulnerable Regions (South Africa).
- American University of Beirut, Environment and Sustainable Development Unit (ESDU at AUB): WISE - Whey Integration for Sustainable Economies (Lebanon).
- The Source Plus: Strengthening Farmer Resilience with Integrated Traceability, Early Warning, and Carbon Incentives (Kenya).
- Iviani Farm Limited: Fish for Health and Wealth by enhancing access to climate-smart ponds to Kenya s ASAL communities (Kenya).
- Rwandese Endogenous Development Association: Solar-powered Irrigation and Regenerative Agriculture For Climate-resilient Food Systems of Kayumbu Watershed in Rwanda (Rwanda).
- NatureLEAD: The Living Supply Chain for Regenerative Agroforestry & Food Security in Madagascar (Madagascar).
- Ndaloh Heritage Organisation: Ndalo Agrihub Smart Farmer Model (Kenya).
Seed Grant Finalists
- Inua Damsite CBO: Turning Food Waste into Nutrition and Regenerative Livelihoods (Kenya).
- World Neighbors: Promoting Innovative Cassava Cultivation to Increase Productivity Through The Pre-germination Method (PICGEM) (United States).
- Keloks Technologies Ltd: Wastexus: Mobile Sensor-Driven Waste-to-Resource System for Safe Irrigation and Resilient Food Systems (Nigeria).
- REBUS Albania: Nutrient-Infused Compostable Seed Cups for Regenerative Crop Establishment (Albania).
- Tanzania Conservation and Community Empowerment Initiative (TACCEI): Circular Dairy Byproduct Biofertilizer for Maasai Women-led Gardens (Tanzania).
- Intrasect: Scalable Deep-substrate Insect Technology Producing Affordable Protein and Organic Fertilizer from Organic Waste (Switzerland).
- VKS AGRITECH: AI-Enabled Microclimate Systems for Climate-Resilient Household Mushroom Production (India).
- Murmushi People's Development Foundation: Murmushi Nutri-Pap, A Locally Formulated Nutrient-Dense Pap Powder for Combating Child Malnutrition in Northern Nigeria. (Nigeria).
- Levo International, Inc.: Locally sourced simplified hydroponics for emergency food production in Haiti. (United States).
- Effective Altruism Research Services Ltd: The MUK Bio-cycle Living Lab: A Data-driven Model For a Waste-free, Protein-rich Campus (Uganda).
- Taita Taveta University: Hybrid Solar Drying for Aflatoxin Control: Sustainable Pathway To Safer, Resilient Global Food Systems (SOLARSAFE) (Kenya).
- CultivaHub: CultivaFert: Turning Food Waste into Organic Fertilizer and Climate-Resilient Seeds (Democratic Republic of the Congo).
- Resource Hub for Development (RHD): HARVEST - Harnessing Agroecology, Regeneration, and Value-Enabled Systems for Equitable Transformation. (Kenya).
- FUTURALGA S.COOP.AND: Compostable Food Packaging from Naturally Stranded Seaweed Biomass (Spain).
- West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement, University of Ghana: Advancing Climate-Resilient Maize for Smallholder farmers in Ghana (Ghana).
- Sustainable Solutions Kenya: Biochar-to-Basket: Regenerative Kitchens for Food Security (Kenya).
