Let your creativity and imagination shine on the global stage!
If you love to draw and enjoy telling stories, you won’t want to miss the 2025 Good Food Hand-Drawn Poster Competition.
We warmly invite children worldwide, aged 8 to 14, to take part in this inspiring and creative competition. Through hand-drawn posters, young creators will explore and express their understanding and visions for food, health, and the future of our planet.
Centered on the theme of the "Eastern Healthy Diet," the competition will focus on the diversity and sustainability of plant-based eating traditions.
We look forward to seeing how you interpret plant-forward diets, highlight unique local ingredients, and share the distinctive flavors of your region. Selected entries will have the extraordinary opportunity to be exhibited at the Good Food Summit, on the campus of Harvard University, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), and the FAO World Food Forum — sharing the deep wisdom of Chinese culinary culture with a global audience.
Together, let’s tell the food stories of this generation!
Food: A Matter of Health, and of the Future
While Chinese cuisine is celebrated worldwide for its delicious flavors, its profound values of sustainability and health are often overlooked.
For thousands of years, Chinese food culture has embraced plant-based traditions that are not only nourishing but also align with environmental stewardship.
How can we help the world better understand the sustainability of the Eastern diet?
This time, we invite you to express your answers creatively!
Empowering Young Voices: Every Child Can Shape the Future
Children’s ideas can ripple outward, influencing families, schools, and communities. Every child deserves to have their voice heard on matters that shape their future.
Through the expressive medium of hand-drawn posters, young participants will have the opportunity to share their visions, inspiring others to recognize the importance of sustainable and healthy eating choices. Their creative works will help reimagine food education for a new generation.
Building on Success: A New Chapter in 2025
In 2024, the inaugural competition, co-hosted with Harvard’s Food 4 Thought Innovations, attracted submissions from across China. Nineteen outstanding works were showcased at Harvard’s F4T Food Festival, offering a unique window into Chinese students’ perspectives on sustainable diets.
This year, the competition evolves with a broader international call and a focused mission: to amplify the global impact of the Meatless Monday campaign and spotlight the richness of Eastern plant-based food traditions. Young people worldwide are invited to tell stories of local ingredients and dishes, weaving together creativity and sustainability to inspire change.
Source: Food4Thought
Selected Works from the 2024 Harvard Campus Exhibition
Spotlight on Partners: Meatless Monday & CLF
Meatless Monday is a global movement encouraging people to embrace plant-based meals once a week for their health and the health of the planet. Launched in 2003 by Sid Lerner in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, it has grown into a worldwide phenomenon.
The Center for a Livable Future (CLF) at Johns Hopkins provides scientific guidance and technical expertise to the Meatless Monday campaign, anchoring it in rigorous research and evidence-based advocacy.
Since 2021, the Good Food Fund has proudly served as Meatless Monday’s official partner in China, advancing shared goals of public health and environmental sustainability.
2025 Competition Theme:
Our Planet, Our Plate — Exploring Eastern Plant-Based Traditions
Participants may choose from two creative tracks:
1. Biodiversity in Local Plant Ingredients
Highlight a local, biodiverse plant-based ingredient — be it a vegetable, mushroom, fruit, nut, herb, or aquatic plant. Share its story: where it grows, its sensory qualities, nutritional benefits, and cultural significance.
2. A Dish that Embodies the Eight Good Food Pledges
Select a regional plant-based dish (no animal products) that exemplifies environmental stewardship, healthfulness, and cultural richness. Showcase how the ingredients support sustainable farming and local livelihoods, and how thoughtful preparation minimizes waste while maximizing flavor and nutrition.
Why Join the Good Food Hand-Drawn Poster Competition?
1. Boost Food Literacy and Sustainability Awareness
Food is not just a daily essential — it connects personal health with planetary well-being.
Through this creative journey, children will explore the links between food, health, culture, and the environment, and discover how their choices can shape a better future.
This is more than an art project — it’s an awakening to sustainable living.
2. Celebrate Heritage and Inspire Innovation
Eastern dietary culture is a treasure trove of plant-based traditions and wisdom.
Participants will explore their local food heritage, from seasonal customs to family recipes, and creatively present the unique values of Chinese plant-based diets in health and sustainability.
This is both a tribute to cultural heritage and a contribution to global culinary innovation.
3. Share Your Vision with the World
This competition is more than a contest — it’s an international platform.
Winning entries will be exhibited at the Good Food Summit, Harvard University, and United Nations-related forums, offering global audiences a window into the cultural and ecological wisdom of the Eastern Healthy Diet.
How to Participate
Eligibility:
Children and youth aged 8–14 worldwide
Poster Requirements:
Submission Deadline:
June 30, 2025
Submission:
Photograph your poster at the highest possible resolution and email it to: info@goodfoodchina.net
For collaboration and further inquiries: yancheng@goodfoodchina.net
Competition Highlights
1. Diverse Participation and Broad Engagement
In addition to students, we welcome Meatless Monday-certified institutions, companies promoting sustainable food principles, food educators, environmental educators, art education workshops, media, and civil society groups to join this vibrant initiative.
2. Expert Jury and Professional Support
A distinguished panel of experts will guide and evaluate the competition, ensuring a balance of creativity and academic rigor.
The jury includes leading scholars from Harvard University, Johns Hopkins CLF, China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Tongji University, China Agricultural University, Yunnan University, the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, as well as practitioners from food design and education sectors, and members of the FAO Global Hub on Indigenous Food Systems.
3. Inspiring Awards to Encourage Creativity
4. Global Exposure and Amplified Impact
We believe that the Good Food Hand-Drawn Poster Competition is more than an art contest — it’s a platform for shaping a better future. Together, we can elevate the Eastern Healthy Diet to global prominence, highlighting not only its culinary brilliance but also its promise for a healthier planet.
Join us, and let’s build this vision together.
