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The world's biggest environmental award is all about food. Help us find the next winner, nominate now!
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28/10/2026

To program traits in crops using nothing but light? That was BioLumic’s bold idea when they got shortlisted for the Food Planet Prize in 2022.

Since then, the team has discovered that light-treated traits can be inherited by the next generation of seeds, launched its first commercial machine, and seen corn yields increase by up to 77% in trials. Now it is taking the technology to Brazil and testing it in pasture grass to cut methane emissions from dairy cows.

Swipe through to see what’s next for BioLumic.

09/09/2026

We are heading to NYC Climate Week! ⁠
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Taking place September 20–27, alongside the UN General Assembly's High-Level Week, this year's gathering brings 1,000+ sessions across the city, with food among the themes running throughout. A reminder of how important food systems have become to the climate conversation. ⁠
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Our Nominations Manager Emily Norford and Tia Schwab (Senior Manager, US Food Systems at C40, Food Planet Prize winner 2024) will join Food Tank's panel, "Solving Food Waste is a Key Solution to the Climate Crisis," presented together with UN Environment Programme, NRDC, Restaurant Technologies, CookUnity, and Mill. ⁠
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Speakers include Danielle Nierenberg (Food Tank), U.S. Rep. Andrea Salinas, Adalberto Maluf (National Secretary for Urban Environment, Water Resources and Environmental Quality, Brazil's Ministry of Environment and Climate Change), and leaders from Compass Group, Rethink Food, and Culinary Institute of America. ⁠
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📅 Monday, September 21 ⁠
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Doors open 9:00 am ⁠
📍 The Greene Space ⁠
44 Charlton St, New York⁠
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Check the full Food Tank event program by the link in bio. See you there!

30/06/2026

An apple barn in the Swedish countryside: a setting just perfect for a day of big thinking about the future of food. This year, we moved our annual Food Planet Prize Talks from Stockholm to Båstad, a small seaside town in southern Sweden, in search of a more intimate space to discuss the challenges and possible solutions reshaping our food systems.

C***r barrels were set aside to make room for what mattered: bold ideas, honest conversations, celebration of our 2026 finalists and the winner, and updates from former winners on the progress they’ve made.

The challenges we’re facing are too big for any one of us to solve, but that’s no reason not to try, and every reason to try together. Collective effort, inspiration, and a bit of morale for the founders of breakthrough startups doing some of the hardest work in the world: that’s what a day like this can offer.

We are grateful to everyone who took part, on stage and in the audience, for making this day heart-warming, thought-provoking, and community-building. We look forward to seeing how the sparks lit in that apple barn continue to grow.

Until next time!

11/06/2026

To help 120 million farmers in India transition to natural farming—a vision too bold, or a goal within reach?

Winning the Food Planet Prize amplifies a message APCNF has been spreading for over a decade: natural farming is simple enough for anyone to adopt, and beneficial enough that everyone should.

We asked APCNF Executive Vice Chairman Vijay Kumar Thallam and Rajsekhar Budithi, Special Chief Secretary to Government of Andhra Pradesh, Agriculture & Allied Departments, what the $1.5M Food Planet Prize 2026 means for the natural farming movement—and for the farmers at its heart.

09/06/2026

That breathtaking moment when the 2026 Food Planet Prize winner was announced! ⚫️ Congratulations to APCNF (India)!

At the ceremony in Båstad, Sweden, Food Planet Prize co-chairs Magnus Nilsson (Director General of the Curt Bergfors Foundation) and Professor Lindiwe Majele Sibanda (Extra-Ordinary Professor, University of Pretoria) shared the jury's decision with the audience:

"APCNF demonstrates how nature-positive farming can be implemented across entire communities and regions, providing a scalable pathway for millions of farmers while simultaneously improving livelihoods, resilience, and environmental outcomes.

While transforming the way food is produced, APCNF has realized measurable reductions in dependence on synthetic agricultural inputs and enhanced resilience to climate shocks, droughts, and economic volatility. Essentially, APCNF shows how the future of agriculture can be built by working with nature rather than against it."

09/06/2026

That breathtaking moment when the 2026 Food Planet Prize winner was announced! ⚫️ Congratulations to APCNF (India)!

At the ceremony in Båstad, Sweden, Food Planet Prize co-chairs Magnus Nilsson (Director General of the Curt Bergfors Foundation), and Professor Lindiwe Majele Sibanda (Extra-Ordinary Professor, University of Pretoria) shared the jury’s decision with the audience:

«APCNF demonstrates how nature-positive farming can be implemented across entire communities and regions, providing a scalable pathway for millions of farmers while simultaneously improving livelihoods, resilience, and environmental outcomes.

While transforming the way food is produced, APCNF has realized measurable reductions in dependence on synthetic agricultural inputs and enhanced resilience to climate shocks, droughts, and economic volatility. Essentially, APCNF shows how the future of agriculture can be built by working with nature rather than against it.»

02/06/2026

We are thrilled to announce that the 2026 Food Planet Prize goes to Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming, APCNF!

Over the past ten years, 1.8 million farmers in southern India have joined what is now one of the world’s largest transitions to natural agriculture—and the numbers keep growing.

“APCNF demonstrates how nature-positive farming can be implemented across entire communities and regions, providing a scalable pathway for millions of farmers while simultaneously improving livelihoods, resilience, and environmental outcomes.

While transforming the way food is produced, APCNF has realized measurable reductions in dependence on synthetic agricultural inputs and enhanced resilience to climate shocks, droughts, and economic volatility. Essentially, APCNF shows how the future of agriculture can be built by working with nature rather than against it.”

— Professor Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Food Planet Prize Jury co-chair

Congratulations to the entire APCNF team—and to the millions of farmers whose work is changing the future of food. The $1.5M Prize will help scale their important work!

27/05/2026

Save the date! In just one week, the winner of the 2026 Food Planet Prize will be announced. Join the live stream on our Instagram and share the excitement with us!

15/05/2026

How to spend $1.5M? Making sure every kid gets a good meal at school—grown nearby.

The winner will be selected and announced on June 2. Stay tuned!

29/04/2026

We are proud and excited to share with you these four amazing initiatives who made it to the final stage out of over a thousand nominations!

The 2026 finalists are:
⚫️ APCNF (India) AnAndhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming️ Conscious Kitchen (USA) CoConscious Kitchen️ NoPalm Ingredients (Netherlands)
⚫️ Savanna Institute (USA) SaSavanna InstituteFrom bringing agroforestry back to America's Midwest and scaling chemical-free farming across India, to making organic school meals a reality for nearly a million children and developing a fermentation-based alternative to palm oil—these four initiatives represent some of the most promising work underway to reduce the environmental damage caused by our food system.

Each finalist has been carefully selected through a thorough review process led by the Food Planet Prize's in-house nominations team, with expert evaluations from leading academics and in-person site visits conducted by the Curt Bergfors Foundation.

The finalists will come to Sweden in June to present to the Food Planet Prize international jury, which will vote on the winner on June 2. This year, the winner will be awarded 1.5M USD and each of the remaining finalists will receive 150,000 USD.

Full stories on each initiative are linked in our bio/comments—we hope you find them as inspiring as we do!

Congratulations to this year's finalists!

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