Food Tank: The Think Tank For Food

Food refrigeration in Ethiopia is mostly for exports, not feeding its own (Photograph courtesy of Peyton Fleming)

Cold Conundrum? Getting Nutritious Food to More People in Ethiopia

While agricultural production of fruits and vegetables has surged in recent decades, millions of Ethiopians are still not eating them. Children are hit the hardest by poor-quality diets, with millions suffering from growth-limiting stunting.

Canada’s much anticipated revised food guide was released last month and includes some major changes. The revised guide includes new healthy suggestions such as eating more plant-based proteins and reducing consumption of processed foods, but it also eliminates the previous convention of the four food groups as well as specific serving recommendations.

Public Health

Canada’s Revised Food Guide Makes Plant-forward Suggestions

Canada’s much anticipated revised food guide includes some major changes, like suggestions to eat more plant-based proteins and reduce consumption of processed foods.

More than 200 changemakers from Southern Africa, Latin America, and U.S. cities tackled the issue of food security at the Global Summit on Food Security in Atlanta.

Thought Leaders

Global Changemakers Meet in Atlanta to Address Food Security

More than 200 changemakers convened at the Global Summit on Food Security in Atlanta. With a community of experts and advocates, Food Tank explored ways to better understand equity issues through the lens of food.

Denmark's groceries to start showing environmental price tags

Policy and Organizing

Climate Labels on Food to Become a Reality in Denmark

The Danish government is proposing to work with supermarkets to place stickers on all food products that clearly indicate their carbon footprint.

The USFRA’s new direction brings farmers together to address sustainability and education in agriculture, holding new standards for agriculture in protecting the climate.

Podcast

Celebrating A Diversity of Opinions Is Key to Collaboration, Says Erin Fitzgerald

To boost transparency in the agricultural industry, Erin Fitzgerald of the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance calls upon people to learn more from farmers and the diversity of ways they tend to their land.

The Green Shoots Foundation agri-tech center is providing practical vocational training in agriculture to youth in rural Cambodia.

Education

Opportunities for Rural Youth in Cambodia

The Green Shoots Foundation discusses the mission of the Agro-Tech Center in educating and training youth in rural Cambodia.

Sustainable Business

12 Orgs Highlighting the True Cost of Food

True cost accounting acknowledges the social, human, and environmental impacts of our food system to reveal what food really costs. These 10 organizations are committed to investigating the true costs of food to make a more sustainable food system for the future.

With the arrival of Big Data for agriculture, farmers from around the world can be connected in a new way to create a global commons for knowledge about diverse, resilient farming.

Sustainable Agriculture

A New Global Agriculture: Using Big Data to Bring Farmers Together

For centuries, farmers have been isolated—geographically, economically, technologically. Big Data has the potential to transform agriculture in the 21st century and create a new global commons for agricultural knowledge that could allow farmers from Missouri to Myanmar to learn from one another.

It is so urgent to find solutions for growers, it “is as if someone turned the volume up on the stereo,” says Stephanie Race of Crop Performance Ltd. and Earth Labs.

Podcast

Stephanie Race: Preparing for Future Farming Hurdles Requires Multidisciplinary Data

The urgency to transform agricultural research and data into cutting-edge solutions for growers “is as if someone turned the volume up on the stereo,” says Stephanie Race of Crop Performance Ltd. and Earth Labs.