Applications Invited for the Curt Bergfors Food Planet Prize 2025

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About the Organization

We recognize food as the predominant fuel of humanity’s daily development and evolution, over time. This is self-evident, a fact hiding in plain sight, therefore often overlooked. The way we eat however, and all the associated activities needed to support this, is also the single most detrimental thing us humans inflict upon the environment in which we live.

And unlike many other things that we do, we cannot choose to not eat.

The Curt Bergfors Foundation was established on August 30th, 2019, in acknowledgment of the perils that our current food systems pose to the health of people and the planet, and with the conviction that the ways we produce, distribute and consume food must be radically and urgently reformed if future generations — and the planet itself — are to survive and thrive. Immediate action is required. 

Our vision is a well-nourished world population on a thriving planet.

The Foundation actively supports the transition to sustainable food systems through research grants, awards, and information campaigns. Most of our activities are centered around the Food Planet Prize.

About the Prize

The Curt Bergfors Food Planet Prize is by rewarding 2MUSD to one single winner the largest environmental award in the world, and it can only ever go to projects within the food system. Because nothing we do as humans impact the environment in which we live more negatively than the way we eat today.

To save the Food Planet, we must accelerate change and there is no more time to waste.

The Food Planet Prize is different to other awards in many ways, not just because of its size.

The two things that we believe are most unusual about us, and that we are probably the most proud of, are which types of projects we give the prize to, and how we decide on our winners.

First of all, unlike most prizes we look primarily to award not those who have already succeeded, but rather those who will succeed, and change the world radically for the better, if only they get a chance. This might sound obvious. But if you think about most other prizes out there, they actually work the other way around, which is not necessarily that terrible. But perhaps a little bit inefficient, at least if your goal is indeed catalyze rapid change.

Second, we believe that the only way where we will stand a chance to transform our food system into one that can sustainably support us all in harmony with the environment, is to work together across the whole food value chain. This is one of those standpoints where almost regardless who you ask, people tend to agree in principle. But at the same time, almost everywhere you look, actions fail to reflect those beliefs.

For us this sits at the very center of everything we do, and our vetting process is designed to represent the whole food system. Perhaps best illustrated by our jury with its equal split in representation between people working at the very cutting edge of scientific research, policy, business and practical work in food. And where in the end, the vote of a world leading climate scientist, a farmer, or a chef, carries equal weight in deciding who will win the prize.

How to Apply

Nominate yourself or someone else, it takes three minutes and could change the world!

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