Companies, institutes, governments and consumers are searching together for new approaches for a sustainable food production with the least possible burden on our planet. The Sustainable Food Initiative is a community that combines research with fast innovation and valorisation to find solutions to produce sustainable food, to reduce the ecological footprint, to reduce waste, and to help consumers to make the better choice. Sufficient safe, healthy, affordable and sustainable food for everyone. The Sustainable Food Initiative wants to use the full potential of all agricultural produce to create a new generation of products that are sustainable, safe, nutritious and of course delicious. We want to create these products while reducing the total footprint to zero by 2050. To achieve our ambitions, we need to create a better system in producing and processing food. No goals will be reached without working together. The SFI community is organized in three collaborative pillars. To achieve our goals, work in all pillars needs to take place parallel, leading to non-linear, non-sequential innovation. Connecting the three pillars creates a continuous platform for exchange of questions and ideas. It promotes new or existing technologies and creates interaction between experts from different technology readiness levels (TRL). The multi-dimensional approach from the three pillars will lead faster to greater diversity of solutions.