WHAT IS IT?The urgency of the climate crisis is more apparent than ever and disruptive innovation is key to creating a more sustainable, prosperous, inclusive, healthy and equitable future.
The THRIVE Global Impact Challenge is a global search for the most innovative startups who are advancing a more sustainable future for agriculture.
Aligned with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, the Global Impact Challenge is focused on three key themes each one central to supporting the transition to a net-zero future for agriculture.
CHALLENGE THEMES
- Soil health & Biodiversity
- Increasing food security
- Reducing and offsetting emissions
ELECTION CRITERIA
Startups should be Seed to Series A with technologies focused in the following areas.
Soil health & Biodiversity
- Regenerative agriculture
- Ag biotechnology
- Alternative fertilizers
- Alternative pesticides & herbicides
- Crop nutrition & novel inputs
- Biostimulants
- Water management.
Increasing food security
- Alternative proteins
- Food loss prevention
- Circular economy
- Indoor farming
- Supply chain solutions
- Packaging
- Functional Ingredients.
Reducing and offsetting emissions
- Carbon sequestration
- Carbon measurement
- Carbon markets
- Reducing animal emissions and animal cruelty
- Robotics & automation
- On-farm emissions reduction.
Read more and apply: https://thriveagrifood.com/thrive-global-impact-challenge/
