On October 29, 2019, the Rockefeller Foundation in partnership with SecondMuse and OpenIDEO announced https://www.foodsystemvisionprize.org/ that applications from companies, governments, cooperatives, communities, partnerships, NGOs, and universities around the world are due by January 31, 2020 for the "Food System Vision Prize to Envision a Better Food System for 2050" - Ten winners will receive $200,000 each - "... the Prize seeks systems-focused proposals that encourage people worldwide to take action and think collaboratively about the future [of food] … Visionaries [are] to consider technology, diet, environment, policy and governance, economics, and culture ...” – “… applications submitted by teams of multiple organizations from across the food system ... will be prioritized ..." - Summarized by Jack Cooper of the Animal Digestible Food Packaging Initiative www.adfpi.org - JLC@adfpi.org - Text to 301 384 8287 #SingleUsePlastics #FoodPackaging #PlasticWaste #PlasticPackaging
Animal Digestible Food Packaging Initiative
Our reason-for-being/goal/purpose/objective/intent is to convince/inspire/persuade/encourage the food processing industry to establish and fund a public private partnership for the discovery of new food packaging materials that would be digestible by animals (farm animals as well as ubiquitous microbes).
