What we do
At the FSF Institute we strive to build a future where nutritious, sustainable, and affordable food is accessible to all. Through collaboration, innovation, and advocacy, we address systemic challenges in food systems, driving impactful solutions that promote equity, resilience, and long-term sustainability.
Our approach is centered around five key pillars
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We build lasting partnerships with diverse stakeholders across the food system to: raise awareness about innovations at the intersection of food and health; educate and empower consumers around their food and nutrition decisions; and foster rich collaboration among engaged food system advocates.
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We leverage public-private partnerships to address ineffective or insufficient food policies related to six areas of interest: food quality & safety, food labeling & traceability, food waste management & redistribution, price & income incentives, land access & tenure, and innovation & ease of doing business.
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We contribute nutrition research, thought leadership, advocacy, and white papers to support market-based, scalable, innovative nutrition and food security solutions.
For example, in the developing area of Food is Health, including Food is Medicine we are developing a collective science-based methodology for impact measurement and management to achieve the accountability and transparency needed to drive increased capital towards a just food system transformation.
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We provide our partner companies access to in-house business operations expertise and a network of partners and advisers with deep agriculture, nutrition, and food system business knowledge.
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FSF works on a fee for service basis with our sister organization, FSF Ventures, an impact investment fund to identify agrifood system businesses capable of both nutrition impact and financial return.
In addition, FSF measures and monitors the increase in availability, affordability and consumer awareness of FSF Ventures partner companies, ensuring the credibility of nutrition impact outcomes.
All of our programs are built upon these five pillars, ensuring alignment with our mission.
Working Around the Globe
The FSF Institute maintains one mission, with two operating teams:
United States and Africa
Both teams operationalize the shared theory of change that by creating the necessary ecosystem through research, partnerships, policy, advocacy and consumer awareness while also working with too often overlooked and underfunded talented local teams, we can deliver nutrition impact through economically and environmentally sustainable food systems around the globe.
United States
Africa
“Ending malnutrition comes at the nexus of policy, finance and imagination”