Food System Vision Prize

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.

Food 2050 Series Teaser

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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Impact Stories

Inspiring Community-Led Concepts Advance to Semi-Finals in Food System Vision Prize
Seeking a bit of optimism, and even inspiration, in these challenging times? Take an hour or two and peruse some of the 79 semi finalist entries from around the globe for the Food System Vision Prize.
Food for Thought: On Sustaining Visions of Hope
A conversation about the Food System Vision Prize.
Crisis to Possibility: Five Aspirations for our Food System

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.

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

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