Food Systems grants — page 11
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Grants and contracts for sustainable food production, supply-chain resilience and nutrition. Funded by the USDA, EU CAP and Horizon Cluster 6, the World Bank and IFAD, and food-systems philanthropy such as the Rockefeller and Bezos Earth funds. Listed below are the open food systems grant calls in that landscape, taken from each funder's own notice and re-checked on every refresh.
This is the most fragmented funding landscape on the site. Money comes from agriculture and environment ministries, the EU Common Agricultural Policy and Horizon Cluster 6, the World Bank and IFAD, and a large conservation philanthropy sector including the Global Environment Facility and the major nature foundations. Cheque sizes span four orders of magnitude, and eligibility frequently turns on land tenure, on partnership with a local organisation, or on both.
This page lists open food systems grants currently tracked by Raise Lens — 827 of them right now, sorted with the soonest deadline first. Every listing has been classified against the sustainability taxonomy rather than matched on keywords, so what appears here is food systems work rather than anything whose description happens to mention it.
The funders publishing food systems grants here include Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA, Finnfund, Defra, among 2 others. Who is funding matters as much as what: eligibility, reporting burden and the realistic timeline to a decision vary far more between funders than between individual calls.
Geographic coverage on this page spans GLOBAL-SOUTH, AFRICA, ASIA, LATAM, GLOBAL. Eligibility is usually tied to where the work happens or where the applying organisation is registered, and the two are not always the same — worth checking before investing time in an application.
Technical Assistance (TA) Program
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This grant provides technical assistance (not direct funding) to food-related organizations to strengthen equitable food systems and build community resilience. It targets nonprofits, social enterprises, and community groups working on food supply chain, food waste, and agricultural sustainability.
Farmers of Color Network Grant Programs
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RAFI's Farmers of Color Network Grant Programs support farm communities led by farmers of color, with explicit focus on economic, racial, and ecological justice in agriculture. The grants advance regenerative and equitable food systems, though specific funding mechanisms and eligibility criteria are not detailed in this listing.
Direct Investment – Agriculture
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The funder provides direct investment in sustainable agriculture projects that boost productivity and incomes for smallholder farmers in developing countries. The fund targets projects that create jobs and advance agricultural sustainability in the Global South.
More farmers supported to grow their businesses and restore nature
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This grant supports farmers to expand their agricultural businesses while implementing environmental restoration practices through the Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier scheme. It is open to farmers in England seeking to combine productivity growth with nature conservation and land stewardship.
Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 (P4G)
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P4G provides funding and support to help early-stage climate businesses developing solutions in food, water, and energy systems reach investment readiness. The programme targets startups and entrepreneurs building scalable climate solutions across these three critical sectors.
A Canadian VC Early Stage Climate & Food/Energy Fund
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The funder backs early-stage companies (pre-seed to Series A) developing breakthrough solutions in renewable energy, food systems, climate adaptation, and sustainable infrastructure. The fund targets startups redesigning fundamental systems to operate within planetary boundaries.
A Global Climate Technology Pre-Seed & Seed Fund
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The funder invests $100k–$750k in pre-seed and seed stage climate technology companies focused on food, agriculture, oceans, and forestry sectors globally. The fund targets companies working on reinvention, reuse, and resilience across agriculture systems, food & supply chain, oceans & water, and forestry & land.
Climate-focused venture fund
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The funder is a venture capital fund investing in scalable climate companies across food & agriculture, energy transition, infrastructure, and mobility sectors. It targets visionary teams building systems-level climate solutions with proven product-market fit.
A Canadian Telecommunications Company's Impact Venture Fund
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The funder invests in companies addressing climate response, food resilience, equitable health, and access to education and jobs across 160 countries, from incubation through global expansion. The fund targets high-impact ventures solving systemic challenges in sustainability and social equity.
a Canadian telecommunications company – Agriculture & Consumer Goods
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This grant backs technology-driven solutions that improve field-to-fork supply chain efficiency and transparency using robotics, data analytics, and digital tools. It targets agtech and consumer goods innovators seeking to modernize agriculture and food systems.
Alternative Protein Investment Fund
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The funder invests in early-stage and growth-stage startups developing alternative proteins and food-tech innovations across plant-based, cellular agriculture, fermentation, and novel protein production. The fund supports entrepreneurs globally along the entire alternative protein value chain from seed stage onward.
An Indian Climate Venture Fund
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Peak Sustainability Venture Fund I is an early-stage deep-tech climate investment fund targeting entrepreneurs across new energy, food systems, water, and built environment sectors in India and Asia. The fund backs purpose-driven founders with domain expertise across 40+ climate and sustainability sub-sectors.
Adaptation: Investing in innovations that help society thrive on a warming planet with constrained natural resources
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The funder is investing in early-stage innovations that enable society to adapt to climate change and resource scarcity across housing, food, transportation, energy, and insurance sectors. The fund targets startups and entrepreneurs building climate-adaptation and resilience solutions.
Fund I: Early-stage venture fund investing at pre-seed and seed into mission-driven founders working on climate and global challenges
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Early-stage venture fund providing pre-seed and seed-stage equity investment to mission-driven founders addressing climate, health, food systems, and deep technology challenges. Fund acts as the earliest institutional investor, targeting companies solving large global problems before they attract top-tier venture capital.
Planetary Health
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The funder invests in private companies developing cost-effective solutions to reduce emissions, increase resource availability, and restore environmental quality across energy, materials, food, water, and climate technology sectors. The fund targets early to growth-stage companies with proven or near-market technologies.
Food Hub & Market Vendor Support
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LEAP provides funding and operational support to local food producers through food hub logistics and market vendor assistance. The grant targets small-scale agricultural producers and food system entrepreneurs seeking to improve supply chain efficiency and market access.
Special Opportunities
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The funder' Special Opportunities sleeve targets non-traditional or structured equity investments complementing their core venture and growth strategy in food & agriculture, energy, and oceans. The fund seeks to deploy capital in innovative companies and projects across these three sectors, likely at growth and scale stages.
Venture & Growth
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The funder provides venture and growth equity capital to early-stage and scaling companies developing market-based solutions in food & agriculture, energy, and ocean sectors. The fund targets entrepreneurs building innovative, commercially viable businesses across these three sustainability-focused domains.
A European venture investment fund backing agrifood tech
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Clay Capital is a venture fund investing in seed to Series C companies across Europe and Asia developing agrifood technology solutions including alternative proteins, sustainable agriculture, biotech ingredients, and circular food systems. The fund backs ambitious teams using innovation to reconnect human health with planetary health.
A Regenerative Food and Agriculture Investment Fund
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The funder Fund provides mission-driven venture investment in entrepreneurs building regenerative food and agriculture technologies, with focus on soil health, upstream technologies, processing, and systemic food-systems impact. Eligible for startups and early-stage companies advancing regenerative agriculture and food-systems innovation.
Farm to School Program
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This grant funds programs that connect local farms to school cafeterias in Nebraska and Southwest Iowa, including initiatives like Greenhouse to Cafeteria and Nebraska Thursdays. It supports organizations working to strengthen regional food systems and increase farm-to-school procurement.
Conservation Mentorship Network
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This grant connects farmers with conservation mentors to adopt soil health and sustainable farming practices including no-till, cover crops, and rotational grazing. It targets agricultural producers seeking to transition to regenerative and conservation-focused farming methods.
Crop Diversity Conservation for Sustainable Use in Indonesia
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This grant funds conservation and sustainable use of crop diversity in Indonesia through on-farm and wild habitat protection, capacity building, and long-term incentive mechanisms. It targets government agencies, research institutions, and conservation organizations working to preserve globally significant agricultural biodiversity.
Consultancy for Identifying High-Leverage Interventions in Indonesia's Mud Crab Sector
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This is a consultancy engagement to conduct supply chain analysis in Indonesia's mud crab sector, aiming to strengthen producer value while advancing conservation outcomes in coastal ecosystems. The work targets high-leverage interventions that balance economic and environmental benefits in fisheries.
Guarantees: Guarantee instruments to mobilise private capital and de-risk investments in sustainable development sectors
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This grant provides guarantee instruments designed to mobilize private capital and reduce investment risk in sustainable development sectors including green energy, infrastructure, food systems, and healthcare. It targets investors and project developers seeking to deploy capital in climate and sustainability-aligned projects with de-risking support.
Venture Capital
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The funder provides venture capital investments in high-impact, sustainable solutions across emerging and growth markets, targeting sectors including green energy, infrastructure, financial services, food systems, and healthcare. The fund supports companies at growth stage seeking capital for scaling sustainable business models.
Equity & Loans
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The funder makes direct equity and loan investments in companies operating in growth markets to drive sustainable development and lasting impact. The fund targets businesses across green energy, infrastructure, financial services, food systems, and healthcare sectors.
Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
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This grant funds research, action, and policy influence to build resilient food systems through farmer-centered agroecological approaches globally. It targets organizations working at the intersection of agroecology, food security, and farmer empowerment.
11th Hour Project
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The 11th Hour Project funds community-led initiatives globally across renewable energy, food systems, ocean health, and human rights. It partners with organizations working on climate mitigation, adaptation, and environmental justice in the Global South and frontline communities.
Biodiversity Financing
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The International Biodiversity Program funds initiatives to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by addressing direct drivers such as land/sea-use change, species overexploitation, invasive species, pollution, and agriculture. Applicants including women, Indigenous Peoples, and organizations working on conservation can submit unsolicited proposals on a rolling basis.
Grassroots Development
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The funder funds development projects in Asia, Africa, and Latin America addressing poverty, hunger, disease, and climate justice through interventions in food security, agriculture, land access, energy, and extractive industries. The funder accepts rolling applications from organizations working on these themes in the Global South.
Assistance for Fruit Orchards
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This grant provides planting materials and technical assistance to establish fruit orchards for charitable purposes in communities, schools, parks, and low-income neighborhoods. Eligible applicants are nonprofit organizations, public/nonprofit schools, and government entities serving charitable missions.
DRIVE Infrastructure Projects
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DRIVE funds infrastructure construction projects in water, climate, food security, and sexual/reproductive health in eligible developing countries, with grants ranging €5–60 million. The program targets entrepreneurs and organizations worldwide building physical infrastructure in these priority sectors.
Social Innovations for the Developing World
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The funder invites proposals for innovative, cost-effective solutions addressing major development challenges (energy, water, agriculture, fisheries) in the developing world. It funds teams from social enterprises, for-profits, NGOs, government agencies, and researchers globally, offering grants, loans, and equity investments.
Support for Early-Stage Businesses
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AgDevCo provides direct investment capital (minimum US$250k) to early-stage businesses with proven business models, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa. The fund targets agricultural and related sectors with potential for rapid growth and regional expansion.
Seed Grant
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This grant funds initiatives that advance plant-based food systems by reducing animal product consumption, dismantling industrial animal agriculture, or promoting veganism. It is open to organizations and projects at early stages with budgets up to USD 5,000.
A Major Foundation Grant
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The funder funds locally-led community initiatives addressing clean water access, sanitation, or food security through irrigation in Australia and overseas. Registered charities and not-for-profit organisations can apply for AUD $5,000–$30,000 to implement trade-skills-based projects with demonstrated community consultation.
Grant from a US global-development foundation
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The funder funds projects and applied research addressing environmental quality, food production, and public health in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East, with preference for under-funded issues and geographic areas. Eligible applicants include organizations in upper-income countries working with local partners in these regions, with emphasis on local solutions, leadership development, and organizational capacity-building.
Plant-Based Food Systems Grant
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The Thrive Grant funds initiatives that build just, plant-based food systems by reducing animal product consumption, dismantling industrial animal agriculture, or advancing vegan advocacy. It supports organizations and projects working across food systems transformation with budgets between USD 10,000–50,000.
Smart Agriculture
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This grant supports innovative agricultural models that tackle poverty and food security in developing countries. It funds projects addressing sustainable food systems and agricultural innovation in low-income regions.
Sustainable Agriculture Innovation Challenge
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This challenge identifies and funds startups, farmer producer organizations, and NGOs developing scalable sustainable agriculture innovations across India. It supports solutions in agroecology and regenerative farming practices.
Deep Demo Ireland
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A place-based transformation programme in Ireland focused on advancing sustainable food systems through integrated interventions across the food supply chain. The grant supports organizations and projects working to decarbonize and regenerate food production and distribution in Ireland.
Impact-Tech Accelerator - Cohort 11 (Female Founders)
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An equity-free accelerator program for majority female-led impact-tech startups addressing structural societal and environmental challenges across multiple sectors. Provides non-dilutive funding, mentorship, executive coaching, and access to Berlin's investor ecosystem.
Regional Roadshows & Hackathons for Bio-Economy Founders
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Three two-day roadshow events in France, Slovenia, and Greece connecting rural bio-economy founders with investors, corporates, and domain experts through matchmaking and pitching. This is a networking and investor-connection programme for early-stage rural bioeconomy ventures.
Sunrise Fund: A fund accelerating agricultural innovation and sustainability by supporting forward-thinking startups
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The Sunrise Fund supports early-stage agricultural technology startups developing breakthrough innovations that advance sustainability and productivity in farming. It targets forward-thinking founders building scalable solutions to modernize agriculture.
Pioneer Fund: An investment fund targeting transformational and disruptive agrifoodtech technologies at the Seed and…
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An investment fund targeting seed and Series A stage agrifoodtech startups with transformational or disruptive technologies, paired with strong management teams. The fund seeks to deploy capital into early-stage food and agriculture technology companies.
Corporate Challenges
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The funder runs custom startup challenges co-designed with corporate partners (IFA, Shell, Bayer) to advance sustainability goals in agriculture and food systems. Startups compete to solve specific sustainability challenges defined by these corporate sponsors.
Climate Challenge
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A global competition funding early-stage startups (Seed to Series A) developing solutions at the intersection of agriculture and energy, with a focus on climate impact. Eligible companies are building agritech and clean-energy innovations to address climate challenges.