Cargill has a 25-year partnership with Stanford University and is currently partnering with the university on the Food Security and the Environment (FSE) program. The program includes research, teaching and outreach that helps promote environmentally sustaintainable agricultural practices and generates innovative solutions to the persistent problems of hunger. 

Cargill donated $3 million to the program over a five-year period. The grant is designed to help foster long-term solutions for issues of food security, food and diet diversification, food subsidies, and food safety as well as the broader relationships among development, security and the environment. The investment will provide critical seed-funding for FSE’s innovative solution-based research and teaching methods and help bring Stanford University experts working in key FSE research areas from the U.S. and abroad.