The funds will help Project Drawdown launch an exciting new food solutions campaign – bringing to life multimedia content showcasing inspiring stories of changemakers around the world who are adopting climate solutions in the food, agriculture, and land use space.
The campaign draws from the insights of Drawdown Food, a comprehensive set of science-based climate solutions focused on the global food system and will also leverage Seeding The Future’s Global Food System Innovation database and network. The scientific underpinnings and approach of Drawdown Food are presented in this TED talk from 2024.
The Drawdown food solutions campaign will be a timely complement to the Drawdown Explorer, a groundbreaking platform launching in 2025 that offers an interactive and targeted portfolio of climate solutions in all sectors, including food and agriculture.
This focused campaign is an important part of our deeper commitment to climate storytelling, which has produced our Drawdown’s Neighborhood series and Global Solutions Diary. Our aim with storytelling projects – including this campaign – is to provide the world with a unique combination of science-based content and human-centered multimedia stories to help inspire climate action.
“We believe that this work will have a significant impact, helping to accelerate the world’s movement towards effective climate solutions in food, agriculture, and land use by inspiring action through the power of science combined with a compelling multimedia campaign,” says Jonathan Foley, Executive Director of Project Drawdown. “We’re deeply grateful to the Seeding the Future Foundation for recognizing how important it is to pull every lever possible – especially linking science with effective storytelling and communications – to address climate change and the many challenges in our global food system.”
Seeding the Future is a natural partner for Project Drawdown, with each organization hosting complementary solutions libraries. Whereas the Drawdown Solutions Library highlights the world’s most promising climate solutions across sectors, the Seeding The Future Global Food System Innovation database and network features nearly 700 pre-vetted, groundbreaking food system-focused innovations. And STF’s database is growing annually by over 100 new entries selected from top applicants from the annual Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge and other food system competitions. The database also connects solution seekers with solution providers and serves as a resource for intergovernmental organizations such as the United Nations FAO. Project Drawdown will draw upon this resource for examples and best practices of impactful innovations for its food and climate solutions campaign. The synergistic nature of both libraries provides policymakers, funders, investors, researchers, and more with the essential solutions needed to feed the planet without destroying it.
“We strongly believe in Project Drawdown’s scientific and evidence-based approach addressing the most critical issues at the nexus of food systems and climate, and we are excited to support the furthering of the Drawdown Solutions Library. We look forward to collaborating with the Drawdown team in the future and providing practical examples and best practices through our Global Food System Innovation Library and Network.”
