Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our food choices are the cause of many of the world’s most pressing problems, including climate change, environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity, antibiotic resistance, and global hunger and malnutrition. Diets reliant on intensive animal agriculture may increase the risk of future pandemics and antimicrobial resistance (AMR), while causing the suffering of billions of land animals and trillions of marine animals. Animal farming is inefficient and wastes a staggering amount of food. If all crops were used for direct human consumption, there would be enough food to feed 10 billion people. What we eat has fundamental impacts on our planet. In addition to land- and water-use, resource waste, and biodiversity loss, food-system emissions account for about a third of all human-made emissions, with animal-based products having the largest share of these emissions (20% of global GHG emissions).
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Policy Work and Advocacy Campaigns
ProVeg International is a food awareness organization working to transform the global food system by replacing 50% of animal products globally with plant-based and cultivated foods by 2040.
ProVeg engages with all relevant stakeholders to create a food system where everyone chooses delicious and healthy food that is good for all humans, animals, and our planet.
ProVeg has received the United Nations’ Momentum for Change Award and works closely with key UN food and environment agencies.
ProVeg creates global impact, with offices in ten countries across four continents and more than 200 employees.
Where we work
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Total number of grants awarded
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Population(s) Served
Adults
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Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
In 2023, 81 organizations from 51 countries received grants. Since the launch of the grant program, in 2019, more than 300 grants have been awarded to organizations in nearly 70 countries.
Number of media articles reflecting preferred issue framing
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Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
In 2022, we received 5,133 media mentions, including in Forbes Magazine, The Guardian, the BBC, the New York Post, Yahoo News, and The Brussels Times.
Number of participants attending course/session/workshop
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Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
In 2022, we reached 39,319 food industry professionals, NGOs, policymakers, and plant-based allies through our events, workshops, and speaker engagements.
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Informed by the principles of effective altruism, ProVeg International is an international food awareness organization working to transform the global food system. We are organized around a clearly defined central mission: to replace 50% of animal products globally with plant-based and cultivated foods by 2040. Many of the world’s most pressing problems share a common cause – animal agriculture, which contributes to climate change, lifestyle diseases, global hunger, and animal suffering. ProVeg is dedicated to raising awareness of how we can tackle these problems through diet and food-systems change. ProVeg empowers people and institutions to transform the global food system by promoting attractive plant-based and cultivated foods. Transforming the global food system is a multiproblem solution.
Our vision is a world where everyone chooses delicious and healthy food that is good for all people, animals, and our planet.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
ProVeg’s unique approach is characterized by five Strategic Principles:
1. Maximizing our long-term impact: We strive to maximize our long-term impact in order to achieve our mission of replacing 50% of animal products globally with plant-based and cultivated foods by 2040. Our work is informed by the principles of effective altruism – using limited resources to do the most good.
2. Influencing the influencers: We engage and work with the most impactful multipliers, thought leaders, and innovators to leverage their influence, not only on their own sector but also on society as a whole.
3. Positive and incentivizing: We motivate and incentivize people and institutions to shift towards eating more plant-based foods and other alternative proteins through positive and empowering messaging.
4. All motivations: We acknowledge and respect that there are different reasons for people to change their food choices. We value them equally and summarise them as our '5 Pros': taste, health, justice, animals, and environment.
5. Diverse solutions: We support all solutions that replace animal-based products, and all stakeholders working towards this goal. We focus on interventions directed at food-systems transformation rather than improving farmed animal welfare.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
With a combined annual budget of roughly USD 12,000,000, ProVeg International is a global organization with a global team of over 200 people, as well as a robust network of volunteers. We work in ten countries across four continents: Belgium, China, Czech Republic, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. ProVeg International Inc. in the US serves as ProVeg’s international headquarters.
ProVeg seeks out collaborative opportunities to promote food-system change. As well as hosting our own events, we collaborate wherever possible with other organizations, and work with local and international organizations and decision-making bodies in order to promote healthy, sustainable, and compassionate plant-based foods and other alternatives to animal-based products. ProVeg has observer status with the UNFCCC and the IPCC, special consultative status with ECOSOC, is accredited for UNEA, and has received the United Nations’ Momentum for Change Award.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
At ProVeg International, we provide summaries of our progress on a quarterly and annual basis on our website, focusing on our five impact areas:
1. Food innovation: We support and connect innovators, startups, companies, and investors globally in advancing plant-based and cultivated-food innovation.
2. Corporate and institutional engagement: We support businesses, decision-makers, and institutions in developing, providing, and promoting plant-based and cultivated foods.
3. Policy and advocacy: We work with governmental agencies and non-profit organizations to create sustainable food policies and practices.
4. Movement building: We create global synergies by empowering and supporting mission-aligned non-profit organizations and alliances.
5. Public engagement and media: We provide inspiration and support for consumers and reliable information for journalists.
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ProVeg International, Inc
Board of directorsas of 02/23/2024
Dawn Moncrief
A Well-Fed World
Term: 2018 -
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