[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Based in Iowa, it is a "tax-exempt" charity and holds more than $50 million in assets, paid its president $348,269, and the Form 990 shows its massive stock portfolio. Same location for Ruan Foundation, and one learns from Wiki -- "Sponsored by General Foods, John Ruan and family, followed by numerous others."

Source: World Food Prize Foundation Form 990 -- latest 2023

Bankers Trust and more, with the Food Prize as a nice touch of PR.... Looking behind the curtain.... GMO promotion, because in the long run owning patents on DNA can be "funding."

[monkeyshine]

Fungi, yes. If you have access to Netflix watch the documentary Fantastic Fungi. Less than an hour but lots of great information stuff you never knew - not just what we eat on top of the soil, but their place in the ecosystem beneath the soil. Fungi act as a sort of nerve endings for plants, sending messages (like an infested tree warning other trees to increase production of defenses), and seedlings to communicate with their “mamma” tree, even trading micro nutrients with each other through the interconnected fungi strands.