Food and faith are both simultaneously deeply personal and inherently community-based.
COP27 Is Over—What Just Happened?
There is a lot of work to do. There’s also time to take a moment and be grateful for the inspiring folks who came together at COP27 to spark important discussions about the role of agriculture and food in the climate crisis.
Dispatch from the U.N. Climate Change Conference: Friday, Nov. 18
At COP27, speakers embrace the nuance involved in building a more sustainable and equitable food system. There is no one solution.
Dispatch from the U.N. Climate Change Conference: Thursday, Nov. 17
At COP27, conversations continued around food waste, the biodiversity loss crisis, and the role of the alternative meat sector.
Dispatch from the U.N. Climate Change Conference: Tuesday, Nov. 15
Conversations at COP27 are focusing at COP27 on a topic too often ignored in climate conversations: gender equality and women empowerment.
Dispatch from the U.N. Climate Change Conference: Monday, Nov. 14
“We are paying for the food system. We are paying for it in the form of diabetes treatment. We are paying for it in biodiversity loss,” says Sara Farley of The Rockefeller Foundation.
Dispatch from the U.N. Climate Change Conference: Saturday, Nov. 12
Agriculture and Adaptation Day at COP27 is a long overdue recognition of the critical importance of food systems as a climate solution.
Dispatch from the U.N. Climate Change Conference: Friday, Nov. 11
The FAO is planning to launch an initiative this year to tackle on-farm emissions as part of the urgent need to cap global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Dispatch from the U.N. Climate Change Conference: Thursday, Nov. 10
AT COP27, experts are highlighting the burden shouldered by farmers, the value of Indigenous knowledge systems, and encouraging investors to finance food systems transformation
Dispatch from the U.N. Climate Change Conference: Wednesday, Nov. 9
FoodCOP27 is already off to an incredible start, featuring conversations on the power of youth, the transfer of knowledge from the Global South to the North, and the interconnectedness of climate and nutrition.
150+ speakers. 10 days. 4 food system pavilions. 1 planet to save.
For the first time, COP27 will feature multiple food systems pavilions, providing a historic opportunity to get food and agriculture systems on the agenda.
Reflections on The World Food Prize
Researchers are using models to understand how the climate crisis is impacting crop yields, identify potential solutions, and stress the urgent need for action.
Why Are Food System Folks Fighting Against More Humane Animal Conditions at the Supreme Court?
Promoting animal welfare is about a global shift away from unsustainable factory farming and inhumane practices.
With World Food Day Coming Up, We Can’t Mess Up this Opportunity
It’s time to put in the work so everyone recognizes that access to healthy, nourishing, and affordable food is a human right.
We All Must Be Citizen Eaters: Notes from the Historic White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health
The White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health gave the country with a to-do list. Now it’s time to follow through.
A Note on Business, Climate, and White House Action as the U.N. Meets in New York
The world needs policymakers and businesses who will take action now because by 2050, it will be too late.
Find a Mentor Who’s Younger Than You. They Know How to Fix the Food System
Members of Gen Z know that our old patterns simply don’t work anymore.
When We Talk About College Campuses, We’re Forgetting Food Insecurity
Roughly one out of every three college or university students in the U.S. is food insecure.
Here’s Your Guide To The Most Urgent Food System Questions — And The Folks Who Can Answer Them
These leaders are helping eaters understand some of the most pressing issues in the food system from food marketing targeting children to inequitable supply chains.
Nine Quotes and Questions to Guide The Food System Through This Year
After a year of conversations with incredible thought leaders from across the food system, we’re rounding up nine key questions they raised that will helps us think through the next year of food system transformation.
