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Products from meat producers join organizations already creating innovative flexitarian options for committed meat eaters who want to eat sustainably.
Livestock

Meat in the Middle: Blended Options Join Eaters in Sustainability

We interviewed French policymakers along with corporate and nonprofit stakeholders to draw lessons from the 2016 legislation banning food waste in France. Feature Image Courtesy of Shutterstock Photographer Vitaly Sagalov
Food Waste

Opinion | France’s Ban on Food Waste Three Years Later

Aja Yasir fights for the right to grow food and good mental health on her regenerative urban farm in Gary, Indiana. But, the city doesn't like her methods.
Urban Agriculture

Urban Farm Grows Good Food and Good Mental Health

Adachi Ward of Tokyo, Japan, is trying to change the food environment to reduce diabetes risk and increase residents’ vegetable consumption.
Interviews

Creating Partnerships in Tokyo is Key to Effective Government Food Initiatives

An increase in fish feed production in countries like Nigeria allow fish farmers to keep up with increased demand in fisheries.
Animals

A Boom in Fish Feed Production in Nigeria

FoodShot Global has announced the four winners of their inaugural prize for food system transformations from the soil up with the MoonShot Prize.
Innovation and Technology

FoodShot Prize Invests in the Future of Food and Soil

CEO of Cooks Venture Matt Wadiak talks about the regenerative practices that can raise happier, more nutrient-dense chickens.
Podcast

The Trick to Better Chickens: Honoring Their Ancestry, Says Wadiak

These 23 restaurants are creating opportunities for at-risk youth through work and training in the food and hospitality industries.
Food Tank Lists

23 Restaurants Giving At-Risk Youth an Opportunity to Succeed

Food Tank President Danielle Nierenberg moderated a discussion on ways to create sustainability in the food system, consumer habits around snacking, and if businesses can be kind to the planet while still producing delicious foods.
Sustainable Business

“Startups are pushing big companies to think outside the box”

Only 4 percent of India’s perishable crops move through cold-chains, a big reason why food losses and malnourishment are still pervasive in the world’s second most populous country. A new report critiques the country’ ambitious food cooling strategy, saying it is shortchanging small rural farmers and is overly reliant on old technologies that are energy inefficient and high polluting.
Agriculture

Opinion | Bringing Food Cold Chains to More People in India

We interviewed French policymakers along with corporate and nonprofit stakeholders to draw lessons from the 2016 legislation banning food waste in France. Feature Image Courtesy of Shutterstock Photographer Vitaly Sagalov
Food Waste
Opinion | France’s Ban on Food Waste Three Years Later

France became the first country to pass a national regulation specifically against food waste in 2016, prompting conversation in the United States: can we, or should we, implement a similar policy here?

Aja Yasir fights for the right to grow food and good mental health on her regenerative urban farm in Gary, Indiana. But, the city doesn't like her methods.
Urban Agriculture
Urban Farm Grows Good Food and Good Mental Health

Aja Yasir fights to produce good food and good mental health on her regenerative urban farm in a food desert in Gary, Indiana. The city doesn’t like the use of woodchips on her lawn and is threatening to end Yasir’s family’s multigenerational farming history.

Adachi Ward of Tokyo, Japan, is trying to change the food environment to reduce diabetes risk and increase residents’ vegetable consumption.
Interviews
Creating Partnerships in Tokyo is Key to Effective Government Food Initiatives

Dr. Naoki Kondo, a social epidemiologist, talks about the Vegi-tabe Life Project implemented for promoting vegetable consumption of Adachi Ward residents in Tokyo, Japan, while emphasizing that creating partnerships is crucial for better results.

An increase in fish feed production in countries like Nigeria allow fish farmers to keep up with increased demand in fisheries.
Animals
A Boom in Fish Feed Production in Nigeria

Fish feed production is an example of how collaboration between public and private organizations can have positive effects while promoting self-sufficiency.

FoodShot Global has announced the four winners of their inaugural prize for food system transformations from the soil up with the MoonShot Prize.
Innovation and Technology
FoodShot Prize Invests in the Future of Food and Soil

The FoodShot Prize gives support to the most innovative ideas for feeding 10 billion people by 2050 healthfully, sustainably, and equitably; this years’ winners focus on enhancing agronomy.

CEO of Cooks Venture Matt Wadiak talks about the regenerative practices that can raise happier, more nutrient-dense chickens.
Podcast
The Trick to Better Chickens: Honoring Their Ancestry, Says Wadiak

CEO of Cooks Venture Matt Wadiak talks about what even cautious eaters don’t know about how their chickens are raised and the potential for happier, more nutrient-dense chickens through better raising practices.

These 23 restaurants are creating opportunities for at-risk youth through work and training in the food and hospitality industries.
Food Tank Lists
23 Restaurants Giving At-Risk Youth an Opportunity to Succeed

One in five adolescents in New Orleans are neither working nor enrolled in school. Café Reconcile, and 23 similar restaurants worldwide, is creating opportunities in the kitchens through culinary and life skill training programs.

Food Tank President Danielle Nierenberg moderated a discussion on ways to create sustainability in the food system, consumer habits around snacking, and if businesses can be kind to the planet while still producing delicious foods.
Sustainable Business
“Startups are pushing big companies to think outside the box”

Food Tank President Danielle Nierenberg moderated a discussion on ways to create sustainability in the food system, consumer habits around snacking, and if businesses can be kind to the planet while still producing delicious foods.

Only 4 percent of India’s perishable crops move through cold-chains, a big reason why food losses and malnourishment are still pervasive in the world’s second most populous country. A new report critiques the country’ ambitious food cooling strategy, saying it is shortchanging small rural farmers and is overly reliant on old technologies that are energy inefficient and high polluting.
Agriculture
Opinion | Bringing Food Cold Chains to More People in India

Only 4 percent of India’s perishable crops move through cold-chains, a big reason why food losses and malnourishment are still pervasive in the world’s second most populous country.

Chickpeas are an enormously important staple food crop from Australia to Canada, Argentina to India, producing good yields in drier conditions.
Crops and Commodities
Opinion | Beyond Hummus

There’s little doubt that chickpea farmers will be sorely challenged by the extremes caused by climate change. But if we find a place at the dinner table for wild relatives, there will be enough hummus, chana masala, and farinata di ceci to go around.

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Food Talk Podcast with Dani Nierenberg
Innovation and Technology
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