Protecting our environment, feeding the world, and revitalizing economies require a healthy, sustainable, and just food system. A strong open-access research environment and talent pipeline are essential to fostering good food innovation.

The Good Food Institute and our science and technology team collaborate with external experts from a variety of disciplines in both academia and industry to identify critical white space research gaps and market opportunities for alternative proteins. Thanks to gifts from visionary donors, we fund research addressing these white spaces through GFI’s grant programs.

This philanthropy-driven research answers fundamental questions that can spin off entire industries, inspiring additional research and creating new opportunities to feed the world.

To that end, we also work to mobilize government research funding for public alternative protein R&D. Finally, we connect students, researchers, and entrepreneurs from around the world with white space ideas and funding opportunities so they can solve the most pivotal technological bottlenecks facing the alternative protein space.

By empowering high-quality research that will produce open-access data designed to benefit the plant-based and cultivated meat industries, we are helping build the scientific foundation of a healthy, sustainable, and just global food system.