Green Fertilizer: NitroCapt (Sweden) wins the $2M Food Planet Prize 2025  

We are so proud, happy, and deeply honored to present the Food Planet Prize to this year’s winner.

NitroCapt received the world’s biggest environmental award on June 13 in Stockholm, Sweden, for their exceptional contributions and potential to disrupt the global nitrogen fertilizer industry. Here is the jury’s motivation: 

“Adequate amounts of nutritious food for all people in the world can only be provided through a sustainable use of land, water, and plant nutrients. The global food system is the world's largest cause for breaching the nutrient planetary boundary through inequitable overuse of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers. Furthermore, nitrogen fertilizers are produced through energy-intensive processes that consume fossil fuels and emit large amounts of greenhouse gases.

Through a major innovation, nitrogen fertilizer can now be produced by splitting nitrogen from the air with plasma technology simply needing green electricity as input.

This technology reduces the use of energy tenfold, can be produced locally in smaller units, and avoids fossil-fuels entirely, producing a nitrate fertilizer that can improve soil health and be used sustainably by farmers across the world.”

The 2025 Food Planet Prize winner was awarded 2 million dollars in funding.

Gustaf Forsberg, CEO and Founder of NitroCapt, commented:

“NitroCapt’s mission is to decarbonize the nitrogen fertilizer industry. The current fossil-based process has reached its end point. We can also contribute to increased food production in areas that today have difficulties producing sufficient amounts. We are just about to finalize our industrial-scale pilot, and we have fertilizer in the field, but we're still not at the scale where we want to be.

This Prize will be very important for us to bring our technology to the stage where we can start making a difference.”

Read our feature article about NitroCapt here!