Sep 16 2020
Perspective
If you’ve ever played the classic children’s game Chutes and Ladders—or Snakes and Ladders in other parts of the world—you know that whether you land on a chute or a …
Sep 16 2020
Perspective
For many years, British politician Boris Johnson decried the “nanny state”. In a 2004 article titled Face it: it’s all your own fat fault, he argued that obesity was a …
Sep 10 2020
Perspective
It is the week before Christmas, and Elizabeth Muia is getting ready to receive visitors at her home in Kyumu village in Machakos County, located in Kenya’s Eastern Region. Two …
Awarded Nov 10-2020
toward the costs of increasing the consumption of whole grains by vulnerable communities in safety net programs at schools in Rwanda
$424,248
Aug 06 2020
The Rockefeller Foundation is 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 …
Aug 06 2020
Press Releases
Top 10 Visions Lead the Way to a More Nourishing & Regenerative Food Future NEW YORK, August 6, 2020 – The Rockefeller Foundation, in partnership with SecondMuse and OpenIDEO, today announced …
Aug 03 2020
Perspective
The launch of the Food System Vision Prize in October 2019 was a call for visionaries to imagine “regenerative and nourishing” food systems. The Prize subsequently spurred the creation of …
Awarded Aug 14-2020
in support of developing and demonstrating a smart market concept that increases access to safe, affordable and nutritious food in Kenya, in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
$1,500,000
Awarded Aug 19-2020
toward the costs of strengthening systems for data and information generation that will support governments to implement agricultural and trade policies for improved food and nutrition security, and developing a platform for coordinating strategic responses to African food security across a number of African countries, in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
$1,000,000
Awarded Aug 10-2020
in support of providing small- and medium-sized enterprises with the resources to sustain access to nutritious foods during the COVID-19 pandemic
$500,000