OVERVIEW
At the World Food Bank, our mission is to revolutionize the agricultural markets in developing nations through an innovative investment platform that empowers stakeholders across sectors and creates efficiencies in food production and finance. Using extended shelf-life foods as our core asset, the World Food Bank leverages a standardized trading market and operates much like a bank. Our dried food products are held in reserve in a network of strategic locations around the globe and are available for purchase when and where food is needed to normalize volatility in local food markets that are facing shortages due to market inefficiencies, environmental issues, or humanitarian crises.
World Food Bank is a core sponsor of SYLO Foundation. SYLO Foundation needs your help to help provide emergency food and to help food systems flourish in developing markets. Learn more below.
Recent TED Talks
Multi-Media Entertainment: The Solution to Global Poverty?
Zero Hunger Formula
ECOSYSTEM BENEFITS
From soil to irrigation, from harvest to transport, from storage to financing, the World Food Bank seeks to integrate all sectors within our global agriculture systems and create a balanced and mutually-beneficial ecosystem that lifts small holder farmers out of poverty and allows for the efficient distribution of food to those who need it. Learn more about our Ecosystem Benefits for producers, consumers, resellers, financial institutions, and more.
RECENT NEWS
Bringing Attention to Issues That Matter
This week, the world recognized key problems that are impacting communities everywhere. World Food Day and International Day for the Eradication of Poverty are, in our opinion, inextricably linked. World Food Day The month of October brings with it a harvest season in many countries as well as the reminder that the world has yet […]
The 100 Million Challenge: 10 Years – 100 Million Out of Poverty
Let’s say you were tasked with the job of lifting 100 million people out of poverty over the next 10 years. What would you do? Who would you talk to? What system, method, technology, tools would you use to get the job done? When we look at the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), we have been […]
Blended Finance in Emerging Markets
This month, we sat down with our founder and CEO, Richard Lackey, to talk about the role that blended finance plays in emerging markets. Can blended finance be part of the solution in getting more finance to where it is needed most? Absolutely. In fact, to build systematic solutions like we propose, the likelihood is […]
Impact: Women Out-Growers in Uganda
For International Women’s History Month, we asked our President, Scott Brown, a few questions about the issues surrounding women in agriculture in East Africa, and what World Food Bank is doing to address those issues. This is a great insight as to why impact-driven businesses are so important, and we are proud to partner with […]
