Sustainable Food Laboratory

We're delighted to announce that funding has come through to support the start of our work to investigate and incentivize the role of agriculture in climate change mitigation - through both academic research and quantification of actual carbon performance from changed practices in pilot projects. Please see the attached concept paper for a condensed description of the scope of the project. This grant is from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

Interested companies are now in a position to benefit from these resources for assistance investigating - and possibly implementing potential carbon savings from the field level practices in supply chains. We're in the process now of talking with various partners to select our first set of pilot projects.

Our goal is to create a learning community of organizations (from both within and outside the Food Lab) interested in exploring low-carbon farming techniques, experimenting with changes, and as promising experimental results emerge, quantifying and potentially monetizing the climate benefits that may result from larger scale versions of those experiments.

Please feel free to contact us about this work and let us know if you have any initial questions. Though exciting, our initial funding is limited and may limit the number of projects we can take on. Additional funding ideas and in-kind assistance are always welcome. We look forward to hearing from you and working with many of you on this in as we dive in.