Immersive. Interdisciplinary. Unique.

The TFF Academy is a unique educational program focused on empowering the next generation of talents in food and agriculture.

By deepening and broadening the key elements of our educational approach, we are empowering the next generation with the skill sets and mindsets to create and lead purpose-driven businesses that will help create transformational change in food and agriculture.

This July we launched the TFF Academy in the center of Rio de Janeiro with a select group of 200 of Thought For Food’s next-generation innovators and entrepreneurs.

Hosted in the innovative, bilingual school Escola Eleva, we brought together a diverse group of entrepreneurs, academics and industry leaders representing over 40 countries as well as disciplines as diverse as science, agronomy, engineering, agriculture, architecture, business, and public policy.

The intense TFF Academy curriculum focused on connecting with relevant topics and experts in the industry, building skills and capabilities in design thinking, leadership and entrepreneurship, as well as developing the personal self through emotional intelligence, critical thinking, and adaptability to change.

Over the course of the TFF Academy days, participants, industry leaders and design thinking experts helped solve real industry challenges through a process of ideation and rapid prototyping in “capstone projects”.