Food Hubs: Solving Local presents five case studies that show how food retailers team up with regional food hubs.
GFAR: Why Agriculture Needs Young People
Family farming needs to attract younger people in order to maintain current levels of output.
Food Desert to Healthy Oasis and Sustainable Green Job Creation
Hydroponic farming can literally change the trajectory of chronic poor nutrition.
Skyscraper Farms Will Take Urban Agriculture to New Heights
Growing up may bear fruit in the fruit in the future. Skyscraper farms can be a reality.
INFOGRAPHIC: How Thirsty Is Your Food?
When it comes to water use, plants are not created equal. Here’s how much water some of California’s major crops require.
Food Hero: Sasha Kramer, How SOIL Works at the Nexus of Human Rights and Ecology
Sasha Kramer, Co-founder of Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods, works to transform human waste into growing tool
Is Big Food really the next Big Tobacco? New proposals want to hold food manufacturers accountable.
Is Big Food the next Big Tobacco when it comes to holding the food industry accountable for health care costs?
Growing Innovation in the International Year of Family Farming
Collaborative campaign to create an open source online library of agricultural innovations and a new book documenting sustainable models developed by farmers.
Organic Agriculture — Between Pragmatism & Romanticisms: Insights into the work of FiBL in Frick
The Research Institute for Organic Agriculture (FiBL) looks to youth education to promote organic farming.
Encouraging Youth Involvement in Agriculture and Agribusiness
Young Professionals’ Platform for Agricultural Research and Development (YPARD) advocates for more young farmers in Nigeria.
Reimagining the Urban and Rural as Integrated City Region Landscapes
New report, City Regions as Landscapes for People, Food and Nature, shows that for cities to be sustainable, the regions surrounding cities must be sustainable.
Livestock Development: How it contributes to smallholder farmers
For the century of livestock, there needs to be a new look at livestock keeping and its development.
NEW REPORT: Food Tank By The Numbers: Family Farming
Food Tank highlights new research showing how family farms, can nourish the world while protecting the environment in a new report, Food Tank by the Numbers.
Insects on a Global Food Agenda
Reared on farms, featured on menus, processed into foods or used as animal feed, insects can be an important food source.
VIDEO RELEASE: Family Farmers + You = A Well Nourished World
Food Tank’s new video, produced in collaboration with Greener Media, reveals that when family farmers have the right tools, they have limitless potential.
“I Left Nigeria Once, I Will Leave Again”
One Young Professionals’ Platform for Agricultural Research and Development (YPARD member shares his experience with studying agriculture in and out of Nigeria.
Groups call on Olympians to reject McDonald’s sponsorship
Open letter calls on Olympic medalists to be champions of children’s heath by publicly renouncing McDonald’s sponsorship.
Farm bill quid pro quo
Among the biggest conservation wins in the final bill is a provision linking crop insurance subsidies for farmers to conservation practices that protect land.
The Science of Youth Engagement in Sustainable Development and Green Economy
Youth participate in sustainable development and green economy to drive change in developing nations.
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Spotlight on Family Farming
Tune in to live webcasts of IFAD’s events this week; the 5th global meeting of the Farmers’ Forum Feb 17-20 and the 37th Governing Council session Feb 19-20.
