The CLIMAVORE x Jameel at RCA Food Action Awards support international practitioners, community-led projects, collectives and researchers advancing food practices that confront extractive food systems and climate breakdown.
The awards invite proposals that identify and analyse new human-made seasons—such as drought, soil exhaustion or wetland disappearance—and their entanglement with pollution, monoculture, industrial farming, colonial legacies and uneven geographies along the broken food chain.
Proposals from farming, architecture, visual arts, food studies, environmental humanities and related fields are all welcome.
Awardees receive funding and mentoring to expand existing site-specific work with communities on the ground, covering time and space to experiment, trial and reimagine food systems through situated, collaborative processes.
Two individual awards are given annually:
For more information and details of how to apply click here.
Each year the CLIMAVORE x Jameel at RCA Food Action Award is given annually to support advancing food practices that confront extractive food systems and climate breakdown.
After receiving almost 100 applications in its inaugural edition, different projects identified new seasons of the climate crisis and their manifestation in other geographies facing similar conditions along the broken food chain.
Proposals included research into legacies of extractivism and possible reparative futures to address how we eat as humans change the climate.
Museo Pelumpen
'Trancestral diet-ethics: NFTs for the arts of good living' is a project recognised for its grounded and visionary approach to reconnecting ecological memory through food and forests in a region shaped by recurring wildfires and agro-industrial expansion.
Based in Olmué and Limache, in Chile’s Valparaíso region, the work of the Museo Pelumpen collective revives ancestral relations with two heritage nitrogen-fixing trees (NFTs)—Vachellia caven (espino) and Neltuma chilensis (algarrobo)—whose pods produce high-protein flour once central to local diets before dismantled by colonisation and extractive agriculture.
Through seed saving, agroforestry, community nurseries and a “gastrosophic laboratory,” the project advances how culinary practices can act as a tool for living with increasing periods of drought and soil disruption.
Yara Dowani, Om Sleiman Farm
'Regeneration Towards Liberation' is a project tackling a season of drought by testing syntropic farming as a regenerative method for food production in Palestine.
The award enabled Om Sleiman Farm to expand its work with women and food collectives on the ground that can reach similar geographies facing the challenges of water exploitation, settler colonialism and drought across the Mediterranean and beyond.
This award of GBP 15,000, which includes all fees and production costs, is open to recent Royal College of Art graduates (within the last six years).
Green Violence
'Non-Mono-Soon', a project set in the western Ghats of southern India, investigates how colonial-era coffee plantations and ongoing monocultural farming in Coorg (Kodagu) have disrupted local ecologies, seasonal rhythms and Indigenous land knowledge.
Green Violence, an eco-feminist collective was formed by Vedika Kushalappa, Claudia Lehmann and Sejal Dalvi for Non-mono-soon.
'Non-Mono-Soon' proposes a community-led approach to regenerative land practices rooted in Kodava ancestral knowledge, including shade-grown polycultures and forest-wetland farming systems that adapt to the instability of today’s monsoons.
Mingxin Li
'Golden Butter, Golden Motherland' is a project looking into ways to address the disappearance of the yak herding wetlands in Tibet.
The project reactivates ancestral food and pastoralist knowledge between generations, to form new networks that can support ongoing environmental crises.