Future Harvest by the PepsiCo Foundation – Training Delivery Services

Future Harvest is a new multi-country programme launched by the PepsiCo Foundation and powered by EIT Food, designed to address one of Europe’s most pressing agricultural challenges: the ageing farming population, the lack of generational renewal, and the declining attractiveness of farming careers for young people. The overarching objective of Future Harvest is to secure the future of European farming by equipping next-generation farmers with the skills, tools, and networks they need to thrive in a rapidly changing food system.

The overarching objective of Future Harvest is to secure the future of European farming by equipping next-generation farmers with the skills, tools, and networks they need to thrive in a rapidly changing food system. The program aims to build resilience, sustainability, and profitability across farms while accelerating the transition to regenerative and climate-smart agriculture.

Future Harvest will operate during 2026 in France, Spain, the Netherlands, and Turkey to provide:

• Training for 800 young people (young farmers, successors, new entrants, students, and aspiring farmers).
• Strengthened intergenerational farmers connection, peer to peer learning and community building to address farm renewal and succession
• Tailored support to young smallholders through business and regenerative agriculture mentoring.

This Request for Proposal (RFP) concerns the delivery of the Academy during 2026, which is the core entry-level learning component of Future Harvest. 

• Upskill learners to regenerative agriculture, soil health, climate resilience, and sustainability.
• Strengthen farm business and entrepreneurship skills, including financial planning and profitability strategies.
• Build awareness of digital tools and innovation relevant to modern farming.
• Increase confidence, interest, and capacity among young people to pursue agricultural careers.
• Foster entrepreneurial and leadership skills to lead the transition to regenerative practices, start on farming and becoming role model for the sector

Delivery partners are not expected to design content from scratch but to adapt, contextualise and deliver the modules with strong relevance to national agricultural systems.

The supplier will be responsible for the delivery, contextualisation, facilitation, monitoring, and evaluation of the online Academy in the respecting country for 200 learners.

Core expectations

• Adapt core modules content and codesign material to contextualise learning to the corresponding country in the application: France, Spain, the Netherlands, and Turkey) providing case studies that reflect real farm challenges and opportunities in the territory
• Deliver flexible, high-quality online training and problem solving sessions covering the four modules
• Provide foundational capacity-building for active young farmers and farm successors creating engaging, interactive learning experience