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Announcing the 2025 Startup Innovation Awards Semi-Finalists
03/07/2025
The World Food Forum (WFF) Global Youth Action Initiative’s Startup Innovation Awards (SIA), powered by Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC), is a global competition that supports and showcases young innovators and entrepreneurs using technology to accelerate the sustainable transformation of agrifood systems and advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Meet the 2024 Startup Innovation Awards winners
28/10/2024
The fourth annual global World Food Forum Startup Innovation Awards competition reached its conclusion with the live finals pitch session, hosted at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations headquarters, as part of the 2024 WFF flagship event.
Youth Food Lab North America: WFF and Penn State University join efforts to advance youth-led innovation
06/06/2025
FAO and Penn State University have signed a cooperation agreement which will enhance their collaboration on establishing Youth Food Lab North America at Penn State to support young innovators.
Youth-led innovation: Empowering the next generation of agrifood innovators
30/05/2025
On 6 May 2025, the World Food Forum (WFF)’s Global Youth Action Initiative (Youth Initiative) participated in the 10th Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (STI Forum) at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York.
WFF Youth Food Lab Global Incubator Programme launches its third cohort
09/05/2025
The World Food Forum (WFF) Youth Food Lab (YFL) Global Incubator Programme has launched its third cohort. After two successful years of supporting young innovators, this year's YFL will work with 11 dynamic teams to address critical agrifood systems challenges. The programme began in March, providing a platform for impactful solutions.
Meet the 2024 WFF Transformative Research Challenge winners
18/11/2024
The fourth edition of the World Food Forum Transformative Research Challenge (TRC) concluded at the WFF flagship event in October, at the headquarters of FAO in Rome, Italy, where the finalist young researchers showcased their innovative proposals to a global audience.
TRC Official Launch Event
15/05/2021
On Friday May 14th 2021, an official info session about the Transformative Research Challenge (TRC) was held via zoom. If you missed the event, make sure to catch it now.
The World Food Forum Joins I4Nature to Foster a More Sustainable Dairy Sector at Youth World Milk Day Event
05/07/2022
The World Food Forum (WFF) partnered with I4NATURE to promote Youth World Milk Day with an online event that brought together young dairy farmers, dairy experts, students and activists to discuss paths forward to create a sustainable future for the dairy industry.
Africa francophone workshop on the importance of young farmers in the transformation of agrifood systems
09/03/2022
This Francophone workshop was organized by the Ministère des Relations internationales et de la Francophonie (MRIF) and the Offices jeunesse internationaux du Québec (LOJIQ) of the Government of Quebec. The event addressed common issues for the next ge
Transformative Research Challenge Young Scientific Roundtable
28/04/2022
On 27 April, the annual Young Scientific Roundtable was organized by the WFF’s Transformative Research Challenge (TRC) team, in partnership with FAO, CGIAR and the Agrifood 5 Alliance to stress the importance of young researchers in transforming our agrif
UN System Staff College Hosts Innovation Toolkit Webinar to Foster Innovation
04/05/2022
On 28 April, the United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC) in collaboration with the World Food Forum (WFF), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Accenture Interactive hosted a webinar to upg
The World Food Forum highlights the essential role of young scientists at the STI Forum
05/05/2022
On 4 May, the World Food Forum (WFF) hosted an event during the Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs (STI Forum), to highlight the essential role of young scientists in identifying and scaling up innovative solutions
Launching a new visual language for food! Join a global initiative to create a shared visual language to describe our food systems
05/08/2021
The global pandemic has highlighted the need for worldwide coordination on food security, equity, and transparency, and has also demonstrated that our current food systems do not effectively communicate with one another.
Phurpa Dorji’s AI-Powered Precision Agriculture wins Best Innovative Idea at Regional Youth Innovation Championship in Thailand
21/10/2024
Phurpa Dorji’s AI-powered crop monitoring system won the best Innovative Idea at the Regional Youth Innovation Championship for agrifood system transformation in Thailand.
WFF Masterclass: Hungry for a Kinder World
22/09/2021
Young aspiring entrepreneurs and sustainable diet enthusiasts of all ages are invited to imagine a more generous future of food on 28 September 2021 in an interactive, online World Food Forum (WFF) Masterclass with Iseult Ward.
Announcing the 2024 WFF Startup Innovation Awards Semi-Finalists
20/08/2024
The WFF Startup Innovation Awards, powered by Extreme Tech Challenge are a global startup competition established to support and showcase young innovators and entrepreneurs who are harnessing the power of technology to drive the sustainable transformation of agrifood systems.
World Food Forum opens with a call to accelerate climate action by transforming agrifood systems
16/10/2023
Leveraging the power of youth, investment and innovation, the week-long event aims to forge new paths towards a more sustainable, resilient, inclusive and hunger-free future.
World Food Forum Announces 2023 Theme: Food Action accelerates Climate Action.
08/03/2023
World Food Forum Announces 2023 Theme: Food Action accelerates Climate Action.
World Food Forum wraps up five days of melding diverse perspectives to transform agrifood systems
21/10/2022
A youth-driven World Food Forum today wrapped up five days of intensive dialogue, networking and investment pitching aimed at addressing the world’s growing food crisis.