Through Indigenous Seasonal Growing, Local Ingredients and Animals Boost Resilience

From Minnesota to Ethiopia, leaders are proving that food resilience is rooted in community and tradition.

On the Ground with Dani Nierenberg: ‘Immediate and Disastrous’ Impacts from the Dismantling of USAID

With no transition time, organizations supported by USAID couldn’t prepare their staff or the communities they served for what was coming.

Food Access

‘It’s On Us’: Dion’s Chicago Dream Fights Hunger and Builds Wealth

Food is Medicine is a $25 billion market, and the Founder of Dion’s Chicago Dream wants it to serve communities first.

Public Health

Draft MAHA Report Favors Research, Not Rules

A leaked draft MAHA Strategy to address childhood chronic disease highlights education and research but avoids tougher restrictions on industry.

Growing Forward: Insights for Building Better Food and Agriculture Systems

Lessons from Renewable Energy for an Agri-food Systems Overhaul: Q&A with Zitouni Ould-Dada

The transition to renewable energy offers a blueprint for funding a food and agriculture systems revolution to fight the climate crisis and hunger.

Documentary

Shelf Life: A New Episode Unpacks the True Price of the American Supermarket

PBS’s Human Footprint returns with a powerful new episode exploring how grocery stores shape our health, environment, and economy.

Food Tank’s Weekly News Roundup

Food Tank’s Weekly News Roundup: Agri-Communities, Soil Science Research Gaps, and Sargassum Solutions

Explore how farming communities, chemical policy, and global aid cuts are shaping the week’s most important food stories.

Uncategorized

Op-Ed | No Beef Here. Brazil Beat Hunger the Right Way

Brazil feeds the world, but its greatest export might be the policies that ended hunger at home.

Agriculture

On the Ground with Dani Nierenberg: Why Farmers Must Be at the Table in Addis and Beyond

Too often, leaders develop and implement legislation without farmer input. That means laws that affect farmers’ daily lives are written without their lived experience in mind.

Agriculture

240+ Speakers Are Joining Us at Climate Week NYC. Will You Be There Too?

Now more than ever, as a food and agriculture movement, we need to show the world that our systems are both a key solution to the climate crisis and that the climate crisis demands urgent attention.

Food Security

Bee Colony Collapse Threatens U.S. Food Supply

In 2025, U.S. beekeepers face massive losses as a serious bee colony collapse threatens crop pollination and honey production—pesticide-resistant mites are one suspected culprit.

Growing Forward: Insights for Building Better Food and Agriculture Systems

From Capitol Hill to the School Cafeteria: Q&A with Dan Glickman on Fixing Our Food System

former U.S. Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman reflects on the evolving politics of food and agriculture, calling for science-driven, bipartisan solutions to meet today’s climate, health, and nutrition challenges.

Culturally Significant Food

Morocco’s Grassroots Movement to Preserve Crops and Culture

Through participatory agriculture and women’s empowerment, the High Atlas Foundation helps preserve traditional crops while cultivating resilience and biodiversity across Moroccan communities.

Public Health

Rooted in Health: How FreshRx Oklahoma Is Redefining Healthcare through Food and Community

FreshRx wants to transform healthcare outcomes by prescribing healthy food to improve patient outcomes and reduce chronic disease.

Food Access

Food Desert Metrics Miss the Full Picture, Says Escoffier

Common metrics like LILA and RFEI fall short in capturing the full scope of food insecurity, according to a new analysis from the Auguste Escoffier School.

Agriculture

Under the Canopy: Shade‑Grown Yerba Mate Heals Lives and Land

Yerba Madre, a yerba mate beverage company, and Guyra Paraguay, a conservation nonprofit, are promoting shade-grown yerba mate to help restore South America’s Atlantic Forest and support rural communities. Drawing on traditional cultivation methods, they encourage growing yerba mate beneath…

Growing Forward: Insights for Building Better Food and Agriculture Systems

From Scarcity to Abundance: Unlocking Solutions to the Food Crisis

From British Columbia to West Africa, local entrepreneurs are proving the solutions to today’s food system crisis lie in the hands and minds of local innovators.