Cargill Partners with World Food Program’s Innovation Accelerator to Address Global Hunger
At the Economic Club’s Food Security Summit in Minneapolis, Cargill announced a $550,000 commitment to support the World Food Program’s (WFP) Innovation Accelerator. The Accelerator identifies, nurtures and scales solutions to address global hunger. A hallmark of the program will be an Innovation Bootcamp, jointly hosted by WFP and Cargill in Munich, Germany, to gather start-ups and companies around innovative solutions to address childhood hunger, improving farmer prosperity and emergency hunger relief. Following the Bootcamp, Cargill will fund a select number of teams to pilot their solutions in the field.
“Cargill’s commitment to nourishing the world can only be accomplished through partnerships like this WFP Accelerator, which brings together public and private sectors to address the serious challenge of food insecurity around the world. This includes financial support, but also hands-on work to mentor...
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