Food Systems Innovation Challenge

Mushroom: Organic, Mysteries and Golden Food

A shared food-systems initiative selected to represent Wollo University in the 2025 Food Systems Innovation Challenge, Nature-based Solutions edition.

Selected team entry2025Challenge work
01 / The question

Where the work began.

Our team brought a mushroom-focused idea to a challenge concerned with food systems and nature-based solutions. It provided a setting to work with others around the relationship between biological resources and practical food opportunities.

02 / My contribution

As a team leader, I collaborated with my teammates and delegated work across the project. My coordinating contribution sits alongside the work of the whole team.

03 / Our approach

A shared process.

  1. 01

    I collaborated with teammates and delegated work across the project.

  2. 02

    The team developed its shared entry under the title Mushroom: Organic, Mysteries and Golden Food.

  3. 03

    Our Certificate of Selection records the team's selection to represent Wollo University in the 2025 challenge.

04 / What came from it

The work we can point to.

  • Team selection for the 2025 Food Systems Innovation Challenge, Nature-based Solutions edition.
  • A Certificate of Selection naming the seven team members.
05 / Context & next questions

Selection is the documented outcome. This portfolio does not claim a winning place, funding received, attendance at international finals, or measured production and community outcomes.

Media & evidence

A view of the work.

Public record: Food Systems Innovation Challenge — team selectionView record
Team recognition · 2025

Food Systems Innovation Challenge — team selection

WUR Student Challenges · Netherlands Food Partnership · Wollo University

Our seven-member mushroom team was selected to represent Wollo University in the Nature-based Solutions edition.

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People behind the work

Desye Melese · Robel Kasahun · Bernabas Haile · Emebet Demeke · Hayat Teshome · Semira Aragie · Gelgelo Askale

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