This challenge is designed to:

1. Raise awareness and support learners to think more deeply about compelling issues that shape society and agriculture (e.g. climate change, food security, the economic viability of food production, and feeding a growing planet).
2. Prepare learners with a broader understanding of the issues, an understanding of the complexity of the many factors and inputs that affect these subjects, and the ability to draw their own conclusions.
3. Identify how our food systems contribute to carbon emissions
4. Prepare learners to design a thoughtful entry to the Food Solutions Challenge of:
   1. “How might we move towards a more carbon neutral or carbon positive food supply chain?”

What is the Food Solutions Challenge Toolkit?

The Food Solutions Challenge Toolkit includes everything you need to conduct this challenge that will generate innovative, sustainability-oriented business solutions. You are welcome to customize these materials to fit YOUR audience. Some of this information might be too low-level for your audience or you might see gaps. You are welcome to add/delete information to make it work for your class!

1. The Facilitator’s Guide to assisting with this lesson (hint: it’s what you’re reading right now). This includes everything you need to know.
2. The Slide Deck includes the information you’ll present to learners so they can understand the context of the challenge and create solutions for the Challenge
3. The Case Studies are designed to help breakout session teams ideate a solution around a specific corn product at a specific state in the food supply chain.
   1. Food Surplus
   2. Cassava Post Harvest
4. The Business Canvass Solution is designed to be used by the team that comes together after the event to refine and present their solution to the class. It can be used if the team finds it helpful.