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UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C. 20549
FORM
8-K
CURRENT
REPORT
Pursuant
to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
October
21, 2025 (October 17, 2025)
Date
of Report (Date of earliest event reported)
One
World Products, Inc.
(Exact
name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Nevada |
|
000-56151 |
|
61-1744826 |
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation) |
|
(Commission
File
Number) |
|
(IRS
Employer
Identification
No.) |
6605
Grand Montecito Parkway, Suite 100
Las
Vegas, Nevada |
|
89149 |
| (Address
of principal executive offices) |
|
(Zip
Code) |
(800)
605-3201
Registrant’s
telephone number, including area code
Check
the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of
the following provisions:
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communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425) |
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Pre-commencement
communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c)) |
Securities
registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
| Title
of each class |
|
Trading
Symbol(s) |
|
Name
of each exchange on which registered |
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Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§ 230.405
of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§ 240.12b-2 of this chapter).
Emerging
growth company ☐
If
an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying
with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐
Item
5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of
Certain Officers.
On
October 17, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of One World Products, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the
“Company”), elected Ertharin Cousin to fill the existing vacancy in the Board.
Certain
information regarding the background of Ambassador Cousin is set forth below.
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Ertharin
Cousin currently serves as the Managing Director and CEO of FSF Ventures, an impact investment
fund, and as the CEO of Food Systems for the Future Institute, the Fund’s sister nonprofit.
Each organization supports her vision of a world without hunger and malnutrition. Ambassador
Cousin also serves as a Distinguished Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs; a
Bosch Academy, Robert Weizsäcker Fellow; and as a Visiting Scholar at the Stanford University,
Center on Food Security and Environment.
From
2012 until 2017, Cousin led the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) as Executive Director. During her tenure, the 14,000-member
WFP annually provided life sustaining food assistance to over 80 million people. Under her leadership the organization began the
longer-term work of identifying, championing, and implementing more sustainable solutions for global hunger and malnutrition.
In
2009, Cousin was nominated and confirmed as the U.S. Ambassador to the UN Agencies for Food and Agriculture in Rome. Where she served
from 2009-2012. Prior to her global hunger work, Cousin helped lead the U.S. domestic fight to end hunger, serving as the Executive
Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of America’s Second Harvest, now known as Feeding America. Cousin’s private
sector experience includes several years of corporate retail leadership with Albertsons and Jewel Food stores.
Cousin
is currently a member of the Bayer AG Supervisory Board, the Mondelez International Board of Directors, Board Chair of Allwyn-North
America, and a Trustee of the African agriculture thinktank, Akademia2063.
Cousin
is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago; the University of Georgia Law School and the University of Chicago Executive
Management Program in Finance for Non-Financial Executives. She has been listed numerous times on Forbes’ 100 Most Powerful
Women List, as Fortune’s Most Powerful Woman in Food and Drink, on Time’s 100 Most Influential People list, and as one
of the 500 Most Powerful People on the Planet by Foreign Policy magazine. |
Item
7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.
On
October 21, 2025, the Company issued a press release announcing the appointment of Ambassador Cousin to the Board.
The
press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.
The
furnishing of the press release is not an admission as to the materiality of any information therein. The information contained in the
press release is summary information that is intended to be considered in the context of more complete information included in the Company’s
filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and other public announcements that the Company has
made and may make from time to time by press release or otherwise. The Company undertakes no duty or obligation to update or revise the
information contained in this report, although it may do so from time to time as its management believes is appropriate. Any such updating
may be made through the filing of other reports or documents with the SEC, through press releases or through other public disclosures.
The
information in this Item 7.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K and the press release shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes
of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section or Sections
11 and 12(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The information contained in this Item 7.01 and in the press release shall
not be incorporated by reference into any filing with the SEC made by the Company, whether made before or after the date hereof, regardless
of any general incorporation language in such filing.
Item
9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d)
Exhibits.
| Exhibit
No. |
|
Description |
99.1
|
|
Press Release dated October 21, 2025
|
| 104 |
|
Cover
Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101) |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Company has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
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One
World Products, Inc. |
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| Date:
October 21, 2025. |
By: |
/s/
Isiah L. Thomas, III |
| |
Name: |
Isiah
L. Thomas, III |
| |
Title: |
Chief
Executive Officer |
