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Food System Vision Prize

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Overview

To replace dystopian narratives with positive futures in global food systems, The Rockefeller Foundation designed the Food System Vision Prize. We [“It” if speaking in third person] invited organizations to assemble teams that would answer the question: what is a feasible, inspirational, and transformational food system for 2050 in your place? More than a competition, the initiative sparked radical collaboration with over 4,000 organizations assembling 1,300 teams that spanned 119 countries. The top 10 winning visionary teams shared in a $2 million prize.

Powered by SecondMuse and OpenIDEO, the Food System Vision Prize aimed to enhance the global discourse on food systems, empowering communities to devise actionable blueprints for tomorrow and shape their own food future. Believing that “without vision, the people perish,” the Rockefeller Food Team asserted that a positive, inspirational vision for the future is a necessary opening act for any innovation and development that occurs in the real world. To build the nourishing and regenerative food systems equipped for the challenges of 2050 we must first envision those systems. The prize spurred this effort.

Emboldened to unleash a nourishing, regenerative, and equitable food future, The Rockefeller Foundation and Media RED collaborated to create this breathtaking series that documents the extraordinary efforts of 10 global visionaries looking to improve the world’s food systems from the ground up.

Why it Matters

Food System Visions created by people all over the world have the potential to ignite a movement. Because if we can envision it, we can believe it. And only if we believe in it, will we build it.
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  • Report

    A Nourishing, Regenerative Tomorrow

    The Rockefeller Foundation announced the Food System Vision Prize in October 2019, issuing a call to disparate global food system actors to unite, source and support positive Visions for our future food systems.
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  • Report

    How We Cultivated Systems Change

    The Rockefeller Foundation’s Food System Vision Prize invited changemakers from across the globe to dream, plan, and act bigger to transform the future of food by 2050. Our Final Report captures the current moment of the Food System Vision Prize looking both backwards and forwards, drawing on the cumulative lessons and accomplishments of this initiative to mobilize a movement for food systems change. 
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Impact Stories

The Top 10 Finalists for the Food System Vision Prize

We are thrilled to announce the Top 10 Finalists for the Food System Vision Prize. These Finalists were selected from a pool of more than 1,300 applicants from 110 countries, all seeking to develop a Vision of the regenerative and nourishing food system that they aspire to create by the year 2050.

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Food System Vision Prize Toolkit

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Meet our Partners & Grantees

  • The Food System Vision Prize is inspiring us, by making visible so many creative strategies – crafted through innovative local partnerships – to adapt food systems to meet urgent challenges around health and the environment.
    Sara Scherr
    President and CEO
    EcoAgriculture Partners
  • The Food System Vision Prize gives the world something that we need more of – hope. It helps all of us – as farmers, eaters, businesses, advocates, academics, and citizens – envision a world where hunger and poverty are not the norm, but the exception.
    Danielle Nierenberg
    President and Founder
    Food Tank
Our People

The Team

Sara Farley
Vice President, Global Food Portfolio
Erica Guyer
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Roy Steiner
Senior Vice President
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