It's here! The Food Planet Prize Longlist 2025
After rounds of screening, research, and evaluation of nearly a thousand nominations – our prize team has identified 39 initiatives that stand out from the rest. The Food Planet Prize 2025 longlist is the first major step towards finding a winner. It also presents new, inspiring possibilities for our challenged food systems.
This year's longlist contains initiatives from 23 countries across six continents—from Uganda to the UK, from China to Colombia. These initiatives illustrate how innovations can be technical in nature but also social or nature-based. They show how impressive ideas can come from high-tech companies and grassroots NGOs alike. Our longlisted initiatives provide the world with carbon sequestration, improved soil health, clean water, food waste reductions, and many other benefits to the food planet.
As many of you may know, this is one step among many. The next step is to deeply dive into the longlisted initiatives, in an effort to create a top-notch shortlist. Our prize team are eager to see which initiatives can have the biggest impact – and if they can scale globally and quickly.
Come spring, we will present the shortlisted initiatives, and in June our jury will select a winner. Only one initiative can win The Food Planet Prize 2025, but we hope our work will draw attention to all the nominees and help them grow. We don't change the way we eat and produce food in isolation – this is a mission that requires many different initiatives working together.
Keep an eye out here on our website and on Instagram, where we will reveal more about each of the longlisted initiatives. We hope they will inspire you as much as they inspire us.
Lastly, nominations are always open. If you know of someone you think should win the Food Planet Prize, nominate them here. It only takes three minutes, but it could change the world.
The longlisted initiatives for the 2025 Food Planet Prize are:
Adaptive Symbiotic Technologies (USA)
Adaptive Symbiotic Technologies uses fungal endophytes and microbes to improve crop health.
Afrotym (Uganda)
Afrotym makes a granulate from organic waste that keeps soils moist during dry spells.
AgriNatif (Haiti)
AgriNatif blends local traditional knowledge and regenerative practices to empower Haitian communities.
ANDFOODS (New Zealand)
ANDFOODS makes dairy alternatives through a lentils-based fermentation process.
Astungkara Way (Indonesia)
Astungkara Way trains farmers to grow rice in a regenerative way, incorporating ducks, fish, a floating fern, and border crops.
Aquatic Foods: Post-harvest losses and food waste reduction in Zambia
WorldFish implements an initiative in Zambia to increase food safety and improve nutrition security by reducing post-harvest losses in fish value chains.
BioFiltro (USA, Chile, Peru)
BioFiltro uses earthworms and microbes to remove contaminants from organic waste, producing both clean water and vermicompost.
Cellular Agriculture (UK)
Cellular Agriculture maximizes production efficiency of cultivated proteins through hollow fiber membrane systems.
Climate Smart Farming Program (Australia)
Through this program, Farmers for Climate Action champions climate-smart farming solutions and economy-wide policy action.
Comida do Amanhã Institute (Brazil)
Comida do Amanhã supports the transition to healthy, inclusive, biodiverse, and sustainable food systems in Brazil and beyond.
CuanTec (UK)
CuanTec repurposes shellfish waste to make the multi-functional biopolymer chitosan.
D-Olivette (Nigeria)
The 1,000,000 Closed-Loop Farms Project provides communities with electricity, cooking fuel, fertilizer, and feed by turning waste into biogas.
Enset Food Security Initiative (Kenya and Ethiopia)
Enset, known as “false banana”, is an Ethiopian drought-resilient crop helping to provide nutrition and social equity.
Essential (Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania)
Essential tackles malnutrition by turning agricultural byproducts into Sub-Saharan Africa's first biomanufactured protein.
Food Frontier (Australia)
Food Frontier promotes alternative proteins through industry expertise, dialogue, and policy advocacy.
Gastromotiva (Brazil, Mexico)
Gastromotiva uses gastronomy as a catalyst for social transformation–improving food security, income generation, and sustainable development.
GrowBox (South Africa)
GrowBox brings food gardens and agricultural skills to the communities that most need it.
Le Lionceau (Senegal)
Lionceau combats food insecurity and malnutrition in Africa by producing nutritious, locally sourced baby food while promoting agroforestry.
Leanpath (USA, UK, China)
Leanpath has developed technology for food waste prevention and measurement in the food service sector.
Millow (Sweden)
Millow produces tastier and more efficient vegan foods with dry fermentation technology.
Mushuk Yuyay (Ecuador)
Mushuk Yuyay promotes the food sovereignty, agrobiodiversity, and ancient culture of the Kañari people.
My Food is African (Uganda)
My Food is African levers agroecology and indigenous crops to build continent-wide food sovereignty.
NanoFreeze (Colombia)
NanoFreeze uses bio-nanotechnology to provide low-carbon refrigeration solutions.
NitroCapt (Sweden)
NitroCapt makes energy-efficient fertilizer through plasma-produced nitrate.
OneFarm Share (South Africa)
OneFarm Share prevents food waste and improves local value chains by redistributing surplus produce and developing small-scale farms.
Planet-Friendly School Meals (UK)
The Planet-Friendly School Meals initiative supports countries to adopt school meals that improve diet quality and act as a catalyst for food systems transformation.
Pride on our Plates (China)
Pride on our Plates empowers China's micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises with food waste reduction solutions and behavioral insights.
Renewable Energy for Gendered Agribusiness Program (REAP) (Zimbabwe)
REAP empowers women through climate resilient food value chains.
ProVeg School Plates Program (UK)
School Plates program aims to revolutionize school meals by promoting planet-friendly and healthier eating habits among children.
Semion (USA)
Semion replaces chemical pesticides by activating plants' own defense mechanisms.
SRI 2030 (UK)
SRI-2030 promotes SRI, an agronomic framework that raises yields and lowers the climate impact of rice production.
Svensk Kolinlagring (Sweden)
Svensk Kolinlagring works with carbon farming as a lever to create systemic change in the food system.
The Atlas (USA)
The Atlas is a global tool that provides legal analysis, policy recommendations, and technical assistance to reduce food loss and waste.
The Postharvest Education Foundation (USA)
The Postharvest Education Foundation uses e-learning to spread the use of low-cost technologies that keep food from going to waste.
The Virtual Irrigation Academy (Australia)
The Virtual Irrigation Academy provides an innovative soil sensor that helps small-scale farmers manage water better.
Thrive for Good (Kenya)
Thrive for Good makes nutritious food accessible by helping families and communities start their own gardens.
TurtleTree Labs (USA)
TurtleTree produces animal-free dairy proteins and is finding ways to repurpose the byproduct of the production process.
Upcycled Food (USA)
Upcycled Food accelerates the upcycled food economy by unleashing innovation and building networks to stop food waste.
Zero Foodprint Asia (Hong Kong)
Zero Foodprint Asia works with restaurants to fund a transition to regenerative agriculture.