GlobalRise won semi-finalist in Rockefeller Foundation’s 2050 Food Systems Vision Prize.
Out of 1318 proposals worldwide, food experts selected 79 finalists.
Read more about our plan to “Kick Stunting Out of Kasese” with a regenerative and nourishing food system…
After working for over eight years building a food system in a hot zone of severe malnutrition — a district where nearly half of children are stunted — and learning the local food problematique (customs, attitudes, meals, leaders), we are developing and testing Geospatial Nutrition Profiles (GNPs) to design effective community nutrition interventions in mountainous zones.
A nutrition program typically begins with a costly household survey. Each GNP integrates our field nutrition surveys, GPS mapping of community assets, official census statistics, satellite and drone imagery, and crowd-sourced maps into data-rich geospatial patterns identifying nutritionally equivalent mountain communities.
Where a community matches the profile of one where our Community Nutrition Program is proven, we believe the program can expand without repeating the full survey apparatus — a light doorstep screening and program-quality checks travel with every campaign, so no community goes unmeasured, but the heavy costs do not repeat. We are testing this scientifically inside our Uganda evaluation, and we will publish what we find either way.
Relying on validated GNPs, NGOs, governments, and health organizations can extend campaigns across hard-to-reach ranges like the Rwenzoris — 75 miles long, bordering two countries — saving time and donor resources. We intend to publish and certify GNPs as open methodological resources, with GlobalRise stewarding the certified profiles, so that others can build on them. GlobalRise is teaming with Rwenzori International University, with the help of Kasese Better Living Center and its network of 450 mountain churches to conduct GNP-based nutrition campaigns, to monitor and evaluate the results.
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