Functional foods may support health beyond basic nutrition, but questions remain about how they should be defined, regulated, and evaluated.
Food Tank Explains: El Niño
Changing Pacific Ocean temperatures during El Niño can trigger droughts, floods, and widespread impacts on food systems and marine ecosystems.
Food Tank Explains: Integrated Pest Management
Integrated Pest Management helps farmers manage pests through biological, cultural, physical, and chemical controls.
Food Tank Explains: Seed Saving
From ancient farming traditions to modern seed sovereignty movements, seed saving continues to shape food systems worldwide.
Food Tank Explains: CRISPR
How can gene-editing technology help us shape the future of our food and agriculture systems? Learn more in Food Tank’s latest primer.
FoodCorps and Teachers College Launch Food Education Microcredential
FoodCorps and Teachers College launch Food Education in the Classroom (Food-E), a microcredential that helps educators integrate nutrition science and experiential learning into K-5 classrooms.
Food Tank Explains: Agroforestry
Agroforestry integrates trees, crops, and livestock into interconnected systems that can benefit farmers, communities, and ecosystems.
Report Explores How Food Is Medicine Stakeholders Can Build Lasting Partnerships
A new report from the Milken Institute offers practical tools to help Food Is Medicine stakeholders build stronger and more sustainable partnerships.
Food Tank Explains: Food Traceability
As food supply chains grow increasingly globalized and complex, traceability systems help connect products to their origins. This primer explains how the systems improve transparency, safety, and supply chain accountability.
Honoring Carlo Petrini
Carlo Petrini was “a visionary leader and public intellectual with a profound commitment to the common good, human relationships, and the natural world,” says Slow Food.
Food Tank Explains: The Farm Bill
From conservation funding to nutrition assistance, the Farm Bill affects farmers, consumers, and food systems nationwide.
Food Tank Explains: Precision Agriculture
Precision agriculture is an approach to farming that uses technology to collect and synthesize data. This primer outlines common precision tools, how they’re used, and how they’re impacting efficiency and sustainability.
Food Tank Explains: True Cost Accounting
True Cost Accounting reveals the hidden costs of food systems—and how they shape health, environment, and equity.
Food Tank Explains: Carbon Farming
Carbon farming captures carbon in soil while helping farmers build healthier, more resilient land.
Can New Deere Jobs and Facilities Offset Years of Layoffs?
New jobs offer hope, but John Deere’s layoffs still weigh heavily on workers and communities.
Food Tank Explains: Food Sovereignty
Food sovereignty is the right of communities to define how food is produced, distributed, and consumed. This explainer outlines its origins, principles, and how it challenges industrial agriculture by prioritizing equity, sustainability, and local control.
Food Tank Explains: Ultra-Processed Foods
Ultra-processed foods now shape many diets worldwide. Read Food Tank’s primer to learn how they are produced and why experts are concerned.
Inside Buffalo Go Green’s Approach to Food, Health, and Care
A Buffalo-based organization is rethinking how food access and healthcare work together to support long-term health.
Food Tank Explains: Food is Medicine
What is Food is Medicine? Read Food Tank’s new primer to learn how FIM uses healthy foods to prevent and treat chronic disease.
Food Tank Explains: Regenerative Agriculture
What is regenerative agriculture? Food Tank Explains breaks down how regenerative practices build soil strength and resilience, driving climate resilience and crop yield.