Draft:Food Planet Prize

Presented by the Curt Bergfors Foundation, the Food Planet Prize is the largest monetary award in the global food arena. It focuses on initiatives that impact how we produce, process, and consume food with a mission of reducing environmental impact. The founding capital is sourced from the private assets of Curt Bergfors, a Swedish entrepreneur who founded the chain Max Hamburgers. The foundation also funds a professorship at the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University. The prize received more than 1,000 nominations in 2023. Past winners include ColdHubs, a Nigerian project reducing food waste through solar-powered cold storage rooms, and B4Plastics, a Belgian project developing polymers for the fishing industry that biodegrade. Each winner receives $2 million.

Jury members include Magnus Nilsson, Johan Rockström, and Lindiwe Majele Sibanda.