" TURNING EMERGENCY FOOD AID INTO A

LONGTERM SUSTAINABLE MEASURE "

 
THE NEED IS GREAT
ABOUT SUNFEEDS

Hunger is the world's greatest solvable health problem. There are 16 million children who are living on the edge between life and death due to hunger. In Sweden alone 60% of the population over 65 years are at risk of being malnourished. Hunger can take on many forms and affect different people but the devastation remains great. In order to reach the UN’s sustainable development goal number #2 “Zero Hunger” there is a need for more innovative solutions to the problem.

SunFeeds is a start-up based in Lund, Sweden. The start-up focuses on two things; developing a food product and formulating an approach to facilitate the product in, what we like to call, the right way. 

Our aim is to create a new high energy food that could fill the existing gaps in the market (taste, price, accessibility), and to facilitate it in the right way. This is something we do by venturing on local production where the way of manufacturing is outlined from the SDGs and the needs and the knowledge from the region where the product is needed.


THE FOUNDATION

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PRODUCTS

SunFeeds’ products are new nutritional replacement foods based on sunflower kernels. Today there are two different SunFeeds aimed for different target groups. SunFeeds- RUTF is developed to meet the needs of children aged 6-59 months who suffer from severe malnutrition. SunFeeds -cream aims to meet the needs of elderly who are cared for in the healthcare- system. 

Both products are easily packaged in a portion sized sachet with up to two years shelf life which makes it easy to distribute and for care-personal to serve. SunFeeds is based on sunflower kernels which provides a high protein and energy count. SunFeeds is free from nut and legumes allergens

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APPROACH

OUR APPROACH IS OUR VISION

The approach is formulated so the manufacturing can be sited in regions where the product is needed. We are investigating different ways of achieving this, always striving towards the creation of an economically sustainable manufacturing that will be able to feed on itself. 

Our goal is to develop a well functioning RUTF-product that can be turned, from a typical emergency response, into a long term sustainability measure. This idea, which is also our vision, has affected our business model by becoming our approach.

Our aim is to create a new RUTF-product, that could fill the existing gaps in the market (taste, price, accessibility), and to facilitate it in the right way. This is something we do by venturing on local production where the way of manufacturing is outlined from the SDGs and the needs and the knowledge from the region where the product is needed. By doing so, we can produce a food product that is suited for the most sensitive target group (children suffering from SAM) but in the same way enable the benefits from the entire production to go to the hunger affected regions. 

 

THE TEAM

At the start of 2017, during our last year in Swedish high school, we got the opportunity to write our exam paper in almost any subject we wanted to. The choice was simple; we wanted to write about something that could have an impact. Hunger is one of the world's greatest health issues, at the same time hunger is the greatest solvable health issue (WFP). We have enough resources to feed the world, we just need to allocate the resources right. For us, this knowledge was translated into SunFeeds.

The SunFeeds team consists of Elsa Sjödahl and Iris Bjerkén. Together with partners, incubators, and support from experts, they develop and create the future of food. In parallel to running SunFeeds Elsa and Iris study mechanical engineering at LTH.


Iris Bjerkén, CEO & Founder

Mechanical engineering student at Lund University

Elsa Sjödahl, Head of Board & Founder

Mechanical engineering student at Lund University

Contact info:

Iris Bjerkén
CEO, Founder
+46722334303
irisbjerken@gmail.com

Contact info:

Elsa Sjödahl
Head of Board, Founder
+46706126375
elsa.sjodahl@gmail.com

SunFeeds' LinkedIn:

www.linkedin.com/company/sunfeedsab

Lund, Sweden