SEMINAR ON FOOD SYSTEMS VISION ORGANISED BY ROCKERFELLER FOUNDATION ON 23RD JANUARY 2020

Faculty of Agriculture Students Challenged to enter the Food System Vision Competition - Designing a Nourishing  Food Future for 2050

On 23rd January 2020 at the Faculty of Agriculture Building, Room 205, Ms Kagwiria Koome and Ms. Cate Gachanja from the Rockefeller Foundation gave a talk to students from the Faculty of Agriculture about the Food System Vision Prize – an initiative being spearheaded by the Rockefeller Foundation in partnership with SecondMuse and OpenIDEO. The two guest lecturers challenges the students to use the knowledge, skills, technologies and other ‘ingredients’ coupled with support from their lecturers/mentors to provide solutions to societal challenges such as food insecurity, malnutrition, lifestyle diseases, climate change etc.

Background

The goal of this initiative is to amplify the discourse on the state and the future of the world’s many food systems and to empower communities globally to develop actionable solutions and become protagonists in their own food future. Creating a compelling and progressive Vision for the future of our food system requires a culture of collaboration that rallies industry, policy, academia, and society to act as one. When the diverse stakeholders come together, they can deliver sustainable, nourishing diets for people and the planet by 2050. Although the challenges seem ominous: a global population approaching 10 billion, greenhouse gasses changing our climate, pollution poisoning our soil, air, and water – there are opportunities to address them if we act together to transform our food system.  

The Solution: The Food System Vision

A positive, inspirational Vision, in which we see the possible in our mind’s eye, is the necessary, creative opening to any act of innovation or development we make in the real world. It has the potential to ignite a movement. And it inspires diverse stakeholders to rally and unite behind it. Without a Vision, and the plan it inspires, we do not progress from hope to action.

The Prize?

$2M will be distributed to the Top Visionaries, who will be eligible to receive a prize of $200,000 each.

To learn more about the Food System Vision Prize, visit the website https://www.foodsystemvisionprize.org/