Creating a global food community
The Teranga Foundation seeks to transform our food system globally by empowering people locally.
Our Mission
Transforming the world through food.
The Teranga Foundation’s mission is to create a global food community. We support sustainable, eco-friendly and nutritionally complete practice to revolutionize our global food system. We believe the best way to accomplish this is by uplifiting and connecting individuals around the world and creating a global community of farmers, suppliers and consumers. We envision and work towards a world where the talent and drive of black and brown farmers plays a central role in this effort. We are enlisiting their talents and many of those overlooked and misunderstood toward solving some of the world’s most pressing issues: hunger, poverty, ecological destruction, poor health, and inequality of opportunity.
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Our vision
Bringing Teranga to the world.
Teranga is the Senegalese spirit of hospitality: a feeling of openness, warmth, and generosity that can be shared with all people. This spirit is what led to our foundation’s creation and is the driving force behind all of our efforts. We believe that the tools and resources to achieve a thriving, healthful, and just food system are already here and we believe the spirit of Teranga can unlock their full potential.
Our Approach
Creating a global food community.
Strengthening independent farms globally
At the base of a thriving food system are farmers. Local independent farms face persistent issues from cultivation to distribution of crops. This problem is magnified in the developing world where persistent underinvestment, poor agricultural infrastructure, and distribution networks. The Teranga Foundation invests in independent farms in the developing world and connects them to local and global markets.
Creating global innovation networks
Independent farms face many issues, but they do not need to face them alone. We connect farmers in the developing world with farmers and suppliers in the United States. This facilitates a bidirectional exchange of knowledge, resources, and culture that strengthen and enriches all parties involved. In acting as a liaison between farmers around the world, we create the conditions under which Teranga can flourish worldwide.
A more just food system
At the Teranga Foundation, we prioritize supporting the persistent overlooked and underinvested. As a result, we have chosen to prioritize supporting Black and Brown farmers in the United States worldwide. Furthermore, we distribute as much as possible high-quality produce to communities that suffer from food insecurity.
