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
Awarded Sep 01-2020
toward the costs of building an insect based feed sector in Kenya to support transition towards sustainable feed for protective foods such as fish and eggs
$200,000
Jul 31 2020
Perspective
Visionaries from across Africa—including Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Tanzania—responded to an invitation to imagine a more nourishing and resilient food future for 2050. The Rockefeller Foundation …
Jul 28 2020
Press Releases
NEW YORK, July 28, 2020 – With levels of hunger and nutrition insecurity exploding during the pandemic and resulting economic downturn, The Rockefeller Foundation today issued a call to action to transform the …
Jul 27 2020
While Covid-19 and the resulting economic downturn made the negative consequences of the food system worse and more obvious, the pandemic did not create them and its end will not solve them. Covid-19 has, however, increased both the imperative and the opportunity to address these flaws and limitations once and for all. Now is the moment to transform the U.S. food system.
Food U.S. & the Americas
Jul 23 2020
Perspective
Have you ever noticed how most books, movies, and TV shows that paint a picture of the future are negative and dystopic? We at The Rockefeller Foundation did. Looking to inspire …
Jul 15 2020
Imagine a world where food systems are more nourishing, regenerative and equitable, where year-round nourishment for all is a reality, and where individual food cultures are honored in their own …
Jul 07 2020
Perspective
This week—on July 6, 2020—marks the four-year anniversary of the police killing of Philando Castile, only a few miles from where George Floyd was killed in Minnesota, during a traffic …
Awarded Aug 10-2020
toward the costs of launching the Food System Economic Commission, an independent, interdisciplinary academic commission to deliver a state of the art scientific assessment on the economics of the transition to healthy, inclusive and sustainable food systems
$300,000
Awarded Aug 17-2020
toward the costs of developing standardized protein mass spectrometry analyses as a foundation for building a comprehensive molecular map of the food system
$291,473