Food Systems grants — page 7
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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 Soilworks Natural Capital, Stray Dog Capital, Better Bite Ventures, 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, ASIA, SE-ASIA, SOUTH-ASIA, EAST-ASIA. 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.
Regenerative Agriculture Venture Investment
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The funder invests in B2B companies across the regenerative agriculture value chain, from farmer tools to consumer food brands, seeking scalable businesses that accelerate the transition to regenerative practices. This is a venture investment programme targeting high-potential startups and growth-stage companies in the agtech and food systems space.
Alternative Protein Venture Fund
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The funder invests early-stage venture capital in innovative companies developing plant-based foods, cellular agriculture, food technology, and biotechnology solutions that advance health, sustainability, and animal welfare. The fund targets startups and early-stage companies across food, beverage, and biotech sectors with a focus on alternative proteins and food-system innovation.
Early-stage climate-tech venture fund
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Early-stage equity and SAFE investment fund targeting food, agriculture, and climate-tech startups across Asia Pacific, with focus on alternative proteins, sustainable ingredients, food waste reduction, and agricultural emissions. Suitable for founding, pre-seed, and seed-stage companies in these verticals.
A European Climate Tech Investment Fund
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Early-stage equity investment fund providing €100k+ capital to pre-seed and seed-stage green tech startups across climate-positive sectors including buildings, food, energy, mobility, and carbon removal. Investors receive mentoring and network access alongside capital deployment.
Mid-Market Sustainability Private Equity Fund
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The funder Fund II is a mid-market buyout fund targeting established European companies advancing sustainability, food systems, energy transition, and digital resilience. The fund acquires and scales portfolio companies solving global challenges in these thematic areas.
Mid-Market Sustainability Buyout Fund
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The funder Fund III is a mid-market buyout fund investing in established companies across circularity, sustainable food, energy transition, and tech-enabled resilience themes. The fund targets mature, revenue-generating businesses ready for growth capital and operational scaling.
A European Private Equity Buyout Fund
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The funder Fund I is a thematic buyout fund investing in mid-market companies addressing global challenges in circularity, sustainable food, energy transition, and tech-enabled resilience. The fund targets established businesses with proven revenue and operations, not early-stage startups.
A multilateral water-energy-food innovation programme for the Middle East and North Africa
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WE4F 2.0 MENA Track 2 is a competitive call for scaling innovations that integrate water, energy, and food systems in the Middle East and North Africa region. The programme targets entrepreneurs and organizations with proven concepts ready to expand impact across the nexus of these three critical resources.
A multilateral nexus-challenge funding round for the Middle East and North Africa
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WE4F 2.0 MENA Track 1 funds innovations addressing the water-energy-food nexus in the Middle East and North Africa region. The call targets solutions that integrate sustainable management across these three critical resource domains.
Sustainable Farming (Togo)
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This grant funds training in sustainable farming methods and climate adaptation for agroentrepreneurs at a training farm in Togo, followed by start-up capital for graduates. It targets early-stage agricultural entrepreneurs seeking to build climate-resilient farming businesses.
Investing in Early-Stage Companies
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The funder invests in early-stage companies driving system-level change across energy transition, nature, food, materials, and urban systems, providing seed funding, strategic advising, and network access. The fund targets innovative entrepreneurs and teams with ideas that can scale solutions in climate, circular economy, and sustainability.
Leaps by a German chemicals company makes minority equity investments
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The funder makes minority equity investments in companies developing breakthrough agricultural technologies and practices that reduce environmental impact, improve crop health, secure farmer livelihoods, and prevent crop and food loss. The fund targets early-to-growth stage agtech startups and companies globally.
Community Collaboration Programme
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This grant supports community groups, collectives, and grassroots organizations implementing socio-environmental initiatives that defend territories and promote sustainable natural resource management. It prioritizes projects with gender and intersectional perspectives that improve community living conditions and strengthen collective practices around biodiversity, water, and food sovereignty.
Global Hunger Crisis Fund
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This grant funds organizations addressing food insecurity caused or worsened by disasters, conflict, and climate change through direct grantmaking. It targets humanitarian and food-security interventions in crisis contexts globally.
Resilience: Investment focus on reinforcing the planet's core systems within the global food system
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The funder is seeking investment opportunities that strengthen core systems within the global food system, with a focus on climate resilience and sustainability. The fund targets food-systems innovations and agricultural approaches that build planetary resilience.
A Global Fund for Family Farming
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This grant empowers smallholder farmers to adopt sustainable agricultural practices, improve yields, and increase income through supply-chain transformation and partnerships with private and public sector actors. It targets family farming operations seeking to integrate into more sustainable and profitable value chains.
Farm Resilience Programme
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The Farm Resilience Programme provides practical support and training to UK farming families to build financially sustainable and environmentally resilient farm businesses. It targets farms seeking to improve both economic viability and environmental performance through structured capacity-building.
Pooled Fund: A strategic pooled fund supporting the UK's transition to a just and regenerative food and farming system
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A pooled fund combining resources from multiple funders to support the UK's transition to regenerative and just food and farming systems through collective learning and collaborative action. It targets complex, systemic change in food production and supply chains that individual funders may not support alone.
An Early-Stage Sustainability Fund
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Early-stage equity investment fund targeting startups developing sustainable food solutions including alternative proteins, cultivated meat, plant-based foods, and food technology. Provides capital plus strategic support through industry partnerships, incubators, and academic collaborations.
Živá půda (Living Soil)
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This programme provides funding and advisory support to farmers and land managers to halt soil degradation and improve soil quality through sustainable farming practices. It targets agricultural stakeholders seeking to adopt regenerative and environmentally responsible land management.
Environment – Marine Food and Livelihoods
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This grant funds projects advancing sustainable marine ecosystems, coastal food security, and livelihoods dependent on ocean resources. It targets organizations working on conservation, sustainable fisheries, and climate-resilient coastal communities.
Food System Fund
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The funder's Food System Fund provides pre-seed and seed equity investments of $50k–$250k to early-stage teams building foodtech and food-system solutions globally. The fund focuses on rebuilding the global food system with occasional investments in adjacent meaningful ventures.
Focus: Early-stage venture capital backing founders in food tech, agriculture, energy, and resources
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Early-stage venture capital fund investing €500k–€2.5M in pre-seed to Series A founders building solutions in food tech, agriculture, energy, and natural resources. 70% of capital deployed in Europe, 30% globally.
Fund II: Currently deploying after first close (June 2026), targeting pre-seed/seed cheques averaging ~$848K with…
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The funder Fund II is deploying capital for pre-seed and seed-stage investments averaging $848K with ~15% ownership, targeting frontier technology companies in depopulation, decentralization, new sovereigns, peptides, and biotech. The fund focuses on transformative technologies across climate, robotics, longevity, energy, food, and manufacturing sectors.
Flexible Funding
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This grant provides flexible funding to grassroots, women-led organizations in South and Southeast Asia to strengthen women's health, safety, and economic resilience in supply chain communities facing climate impacts. The fund targets climate adaptation and women's economic empowerment as interconnected priorities in vulnerable regions.
Second Rural Economic Development Initiative (REDI II)
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REDI II supports rural economic development in Jamaica through agricultural and irrigation infrastructure projects that strengthen farming communities. The programme funds physical infrastructure and systems to improve agricultural productivity and water access in rural areas.
Climate-smart Agriculture
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This grant funds development projects implementing climate-smart agricultural practices in rural communities worldwide, with a focus on sustainable farming that builds resilience to climate impacts. Eligible applicants are organizations working directly with rural farming communities to adopt climate-adapted agricultural methods.
Alternatives Investment
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The funder invests in diverse seafood alternatives, including plant-based and cell-based protein companies, to address sustainable protein demand and reduce aquaculture pressure. The fund targets early-to-growth stage ventures in the alternative protein and food systems space.
Sustainable Aquaculture Investment Fund
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The funder invests in innovative technologies that make aquaculture more sustainable, affordable, and efficient across feeding, animal health, resource use, and harvesting. The fund targets aquaculture enterprises seeking to adopt or scale technology solutions.
Production Investment
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The funder invests capital in high-performing aquaculture operations including fish farms, feed mills, and hatcheries that demonstrate continuous improvement and sustainability practices. The fund targets commercial aquaculture enterprises seeking production-stage investment to scale best-in-class operations.
Feed Ingredients Investment
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The funder invests in feed ingredient innovations that reduce resource demands in aquaculture production. The fund targets companies and organizations developing sustainable, nutritious feed solutions for the aquaculture sector.
A Fund for Sustainable Community Fisheries
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A private capital fund investing in sustainable fishing and seafood enterprises in Indonesia and the Philippines to improve coastal fisheries management and livelihoods for small-scale fishers. The fund targets triple bottom-line returns across people, nature, and financial performance.
Agriculture Dataset Grants
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The funder provides grants to data scientists, researchers, and social entrepreneurs to create, improve, or refresh labeled machine learning datasets focused on agriculture in low- and middle-income countries. The funding targets underserved populations and aims to advance AI/ML applications in agricultural development.
Organic Agriculture Programme (Blora Bergelora)
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This grant funds organic farming and ecological agriculture practices in Blora District, Central Java, with a focus on sustainable livelihoods and local green economy development. It targets farmers, agricultural cooperatives, and community organizations implementing regenerative and climate-smart farming methods.
Safe Water, Air Quality, Food Supplies & Climate Change
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The funder funds environmental protection initiatives across safe water access, air quality improvement, food supply safety, and climate change mitigation. Eligible applicants likely include nonprofits, research institutions, and social enterprises working on these interconnected environmental challenges.
Community Beekeeping Support Programme
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This grant supports communities in developing sustainable livelihoods through beekeeping by providing training, mentoring, equipment, and funding. It targets community-led initiatives that demonstrate long-term sustainability potential and contribute to conservation and gender equity outcomes.
A venture fund invests in deeptech and foundational technologies addressing limiting factors in food, agriculture, and planetary health
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The funder invests in deeptech and foundational technologies addressing systemic bottlenecks in food, agriculture, human health, and planetary health, with focus on AI, biotech, robotics, and climate solutions. The fund targets startups at various stages solving critical problems in agrifood systems and climate mitigation.
GrainInnovate: Specialist VC fund targeting innovation in the grains and agriculture sector
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GrainInnovate is a specialist venture capital fund investing in early-stage and growth-stage companies developing innovative technologies and business models in the grains and agriculture sector. The fund targets agtech startups and entrepreneurs seeking equity investment to scale sustainable and productive agricultural solutions.
FISH Visayas: Sustainable fisheries development project in the Philippines supporting livelihood improvement and…
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This grant funds sustainable fisheries development projects in the Philippines that improve livelihoods while protecting marine environments. It targets fishing communities and organizations working to balance economic development with environmental conservation in the Visayas region.
Accelerating African Women's Leadership in Climate Action
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This grant builds leadership capacity among African women to address climate-related challenges in food and agriculture systems. It targets women leaders and organizations working on climate adaptation and mitigation in the agricultural sector across Africa.
A US Agricultural Innovation Challenge for Crop Value Chains
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A sponsored innovation challenge targeting entrepreneurs developing technologies for the corn agriculture value chain, funded by US Corn Farmers through the funder. The challenge seeks agtech solutions that improve corn farming efficiency, sustainability, or productivity.
Sectoral Innovation Challenge
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A six-month pitch competition and due diligence process for early-stage entrepreneurs developing game-changing technologies in agriculture and food systems. The winning company receives investment and access to Radicle's Innovation Platform.
Seed-stage program stream for science- and technology-based agri-food companies seeking to scale
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CDL AgriFood is a seed-stage accelerator program for science and technology-based companies in the agri-food sector seeking to scale their operations. The program supports early-stage startups developing innovative solutions across the food and agriculture value chain.
Political Campaigns for Biodiversity
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This grant funds political campaigns and advocacy initiatives that advance biodiversity protection and critically examine agricultural genetic engineering. It targets organizations and coalitions working to influence policy and public discourse on conservation and sustainable agriculture.
Early Stage Tech-Enabled Startup Investment
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This grant funds early-stage tech-enabled startups working at the intersection of food security, climate change, and nature loss across Africa and MENA, focusing on digital farmer platforms, novel farming technologies, new foods, supply chain innovations, and nature/carbon data. It targets founders building scalable solutions to climate-resilient agriculture and food systems.
Maendeleo Plus: A food security programme in Zanzibar helping communities build sustainable food security through…
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Maendeleo Plus funds food security initiatives in Zanzibar that build climate resilience through adoption of climate-resilient crops and organic pest control methods. The programme targets communities facing rising costs and climate pressures to achieve sustainable food production.
a Swiss agribusiness corporate venture fund
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The funder is a corporate venture capital fund investing in early-stage to growth-stage startups developing innovations across crop protection, agricultural biologicals, agrifintech, supply chain, and climate-smart agriculture. The fund targets companies addressing the future of global food systems and sustainable agriculture from Series A through Series D.
Major Accelerator Programme for Food and Sustainability Startups
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Techstars accelerator programme providing up to $220,000 in funding and mentorship to early-stage food innovation and sustainability startups, leveraging Ecolab's industry expertise and Techstars' global network. Targets founders building solutions across food systems, agricultural technology, and sustainable food production.