Danielle Nierenberg
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Danielle Nierenberg is President of Food Tank and an expert on sustainable agriculture and food issues. She has written extensively on gender and population, the spread of factory farming in the developing world and innovations in sustainable agriculture.

On the Ground with Dani Nierenberg: Rethinking Who Gets a Seat at the Table—and Who Wins the World Food Prize

We need to ask more difficult questions about what food and agricultural progress looks like, whose knowledge informs it, who benefits, who has power, and who doesn’t.

You’re Invited: What Can We Achieve When We Put Food First For Health?

Food is medicine is a movement that can achieve so much more than many of us even realize. 

Food Tank’s Weekly News Roundup: Medically Tailored Groceries, Dryland Forests, Climate-Resilient Seeds

From the success of medically tailored grocery programs to calls for investment in dryland forests, here’s your weekly food news roundup.

Celebrating Indigenous Food Sovereignty Efforts that Drive Wide-Ranging Change

Indigenous communities are setting the terms for their own food and agriculture systems, rematriating seeds, restoring buffalo herds, and uplifting the healing properties of traditional foods.

These Solutions Are a Roadmap to a Stronger Food System, Part II

We can’t just talk about addressing the climate crisis. We have to do something. These solutions are showing us the way forward.

These Solutions Are a Roadmap to a Stronger Food System, Part I

These solutions will help us truly make change at the scale we desperately need.

Lineup Just Dropped: Are You Joining Food Tank at Climate Week?

We need to show the world that food and ag are key solutions to the climate crisis—but we need to move toward urgent, lifesaving action. 

On the Ground with Dani Nierenberg: Believe in Farmers

Farmers are the stewards of biodiversity that is—literally—the future of humanity.

To Build the Future of Food, Technology Matters. Relationships Matter More

When thinking about the future of food don’t start with technology itself. Start with the people using it.

In Minnesota, Hear Stories from the Present and Future of Farming

Join Food Tank in Minneapolis for Celebrating Minnesota’s Farmers: A Love Story.

Want Better Food Systems? Let’s Make Friends With Insects

Black soldier flies can be a small but mighty partner in the work to transform food and agriculture systems.

Hunger Is Down—But Healthy Food Costs Are Up. What Should We Do?

The global progress we’re seeing on hunger is firm proof that international collaboration works.

Can Better Food Policy Improve Our Memories, Moods, and Metabolisms?

Join Food Tank on Capitol Hill as we talk about the science helping us understand the powerful connections between nutrition and nearly every component of human health.

These 10 Bright Spots Are Beacons for a Stronger Global Food System

There’s plenty of good in the world if we open our eyes to it.

On the Ground with Dani Nierenberg: Differently Abled, Fully Capable

Farmers with disabilities are too often overlooked, but they are growing food, supporting their families, and strengthening their communities every day.

Here’s What’s Included in—and Missing from—the Senate Farm Bill Draft

With the release of the Senate Farm Bill draft, Congress has come one step closer to shaping the country’s food policy for the next five-plus years.

In Dublin and London, Storytelling Is Part of Food Systems Action

Next week is London Climate Action Week, where we’re using the power of storytelling to drive action in food systems.

Where Does Women’s Health Fit into the International Year of the Woman Farmer?

Women in agricultural communities are farmers. They’re also caregivers, nutrition providers, innovators, pillars of their communities, and so much more.

Asking Serious Questions About AI’s Role in Food is Medicine

Can AI play a role in advancing Food is Medicine? With major opportunity comes the serious challenge of using it responsibly.