CPF Announces Four Young SustaINfluencer 2026 Winners
CPF has announced the four winners of its Young SustaINfluencer 2026 competition, a program empowering youth to create content promoting sustainable food systems. Over 300 applicants from 17 universities nationwide competed, with 40 finalists attending a bootcamp at CPF's R&D Center to learn about food security and biodiversity. The top prize went to Chanyanuch Chamthong from KMITL Ladkrabang for content inspired by her family's integrated farming practices.
Unleashing creative content to drive food security on a balanced ecosystem, CPF announces four winners of the "CPF Young SustaINfluencer 2026" award. The new generation isn't waiting for a better future to happen on its own but chooses to use creative thinking and content power as a megaphone to invite society to think, question, and join hands in creating change. Like participants in the "CPF Young SustaINfluencer 2026" project, organized by Charoen Pokphand Foods PLC (CPF) with The Next Forest, to open space for youth to exchange perspectives and unleash their ideas through creative content conveying connections between "food, nature, and people," together driving a food-secure future under the concept "Foodiversity: How to eat... for us and the planet." The project attracted over 300 youth from 17 educational institutions nationwide before selecting 40 youths to join the Foodiversity Bootcamp at the CPF R&D Center to learn about sustainability in food systems from experts across fields, study CPF's food innovation R&D process, and understand the Foodiversity concept linking food security with biodiversity. Participants also learned through workshops with CPF's sustainability management team and developed content creation skills with senior influencers from the Mission 2050 page, an online medium presenting environmental and sustainability content, before applying their knowledge and experience through their own perspectives to create content communicating sustainability in an accessible, relatable way that reaches more youth.
Kobboon Srichai, CPF's Chief Corporate Affairs and Investor Relations Officer, said: "Today the world faces rapid change. We cannot separate food security from biodiversity and cross-sector cooperation, because quality food production relies on intact ecosystems and diverse raw materials, coupled with responsible production and consumption. CPF believes the new generation has the power to be a crucial voice helping communicate Foodiversity more simply and accessibly, so we initiated the CPF Young SustaINfluencer 2026 project to open space for youth to learn, question, and convey perspectives on how food, natural resources, and people connect, to together build a future with food security on a foundation of balanced ecosystems."
After evaluating the finalists' work, the committee awarded prizes totaling over 140,000 baht on the SX Talk Stage at Sustainability Expo 2026 (SX2026) to the winners of the "CPF Young SustaINfluencer 2026" project:
First prize went to Chanyanuch Chamthong from King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, who conveyed a story from personal experience, drawing inspiration from her family's integrated farming and using natural ingredients from her hometown to create dishes.
"My family does integrated farming, which showed me that food, nature, lifestyle, and local wisdom are all connected. Returning home this time let me see familiar things in a new light, and I want to bring ingredients from home to create content that helps everyone see the value of food more," Chanyanuch said.
First runner-up and Popular Vote winner went to Kiattisak Singngam from the National Institute of Development Administration.
