Fighting Malnutrition and Enhancing Food Security Award
Pays youth-led agrifood startups at least $7,500 to fight malnutrition and food insecurity.
Fighting Malnutrition and Enhancing Food Security Award is a World Food Forum (WFF) -- FAO Youth Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme prize that pays youth-led agrifood startups at least $7,500 to fight malnutrition and food insecurity, backing scalable, inclusive solutions across nutrition education, food access, local agrifood systems, and sustainable or digital agrifood innovation. Winners…
This award category backs youth-led startups building scalable, inclusive solutions to malnutrition and food insecurity — improving nutrition education, widening access to nutritious food, strengthening local agrifood systems, and using sustainable or digital innovation across agrifood value chains.
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