Food Tank Summits

Climate Change

The Native Seeds Project is providing local farmers and refugee communities with sustainable nutrition and increasing their resilience to climate change.
Innovation for Sustainability

Greening Uganda: Restoring Native Forest Cover To Increase Local Resilience

On Food Talk, Wenonah Hauter talks about her political involvement: and ways she hopes the rest of the nation gets involved.
Podcast

To Protect the Planet, “We Have to Be Really Visionary,” Says Hauter

Food Tank’s assembled list includes children’s books that provoke deep thought about the status of the food system.
Food Tank Lists

12 Children’s Books to Grow Future Food Leaders

The BCFN International Forum will discuss youth leadership, city participation, and international cooperation for a sustainable future.
Events

Streaming Live: Building a Roadmap for a More Sustainable Food System

CORAF’s Research Program on Priority Agricultural Sectors finds responding to producers’ needs may improve maize production for all.
Crops and Commodities

Helping Farmers Means Working With Them Against Poverty

For Fabrice DeClerck, Science Director at EAT, the planet's health depends entirely on human health, achieved through better nutrition and less waste.
Podcast
To Protect the Planet, “We Need Significant Behavior Change” in Dietary Health

On Food Talk, Fabrice DeClerck plots out the changes needed in the food system to improve the planet’s wellbeing. The first step: improve dietary health.

Many agricultural practices can mitigate emissions without compromising food production. CIMMYT is helping farmers in India improve their practices.
Innovation for Sustainability
Innovations in Climate Smart Agriculture offer South Asian Farmers Prosperity, Part 2

The challenges associated with food security in South Asia are exacerbated by long-term changes in average temperatures, precipitation, and climate variability. Adaptation to climate change is necessary to ensure food security and protect livelihoods of poor farmers.

The future of farmers in South Asia depends on innovations like geospatial tools that can identifiy available fresh water resources, developed by CIMMYT.
Innovation for Sustainability
Innovations in Climate Smart Agriculture offer South Asian Farmers Prosperity, Part 1

Natural resources are under increasingly more stress in South Asia due to agricultural intensification, urbanization, population growth, increasing climate change risks, and difficulties related to land degradation. Techniques like zero tillage, double cropping, and tools developed by CIMMYT can help mitigate these challenges.

Strategic foresight modeling is making the effects of climate change more predictable, reducing risk for smallholder farmers.
Innovation and Technology
Betting the Farm: Big Data in Agriculture

At the intersection of climate change, agriculture, and economy, strategic foresight modeling looks ahead to inform better decisionmaking in agriculture.

Food Tank spoke with BCFN Alumni Matthew Cooper about his research on land cover and nutrition.
Interviews
Ecosystem Services: How Land Cover Impacts Nutrition

BCFN Alumni Matthew Cooper shares his insight into how forests can help shelter communities from food insecurity.

Women-led businesses are changing the way people snack with easy, fun, and healthy Smart Food products.
Social Entrepreneurs
Three Women-Led Companies Highlight Smart Food

Three women-led businesses use Smart Food to bring healthier snacks to the market while empowering local farmers and enhancing crop resiliency.

This summer, farmers joined the hunt for genetic sources of climate resilience: and with their help, potato, eggplant, and alfalfa will endure into the future.
Climate Change
Cultivating Resilience to Climate Change

Crop Trust’s Crop Wild Relatives program is bringing together top research institutions, farmers, and eaters to find the best way to boost crop resilience: the genetic material of their ancient relatives.

With regional recognition, CERAAS in Senegal plans to expand its efforts to adapt dry cereals to drought conditions throughout West and Central Africa.
Climate Change
Climate Smart Agriculture Techniques Spread Beyond Senegal with New Regional Center

CERAAS earned Regional Center of Excellence recognition for its research on adapting dry cereals to drought conditions and its plans to expand into the rest of West and Central Africa.

Mary Mattingly, is using her voice as an artist to create designs that coastal cities can implement during rising sea levels.
Climate Change
How One Artist Is Designing Installations for Rising Sea Levels

On New York’s Governors Island, one artist is designing models for how the city can better respond to impending climate change, which could potentially make more equitable infrastructure for years to come.

In southern Bangladesh, humanitarian organizations focus on boosting food security and preparing for quick response during monsoon season rains.
Food Security
In Bangladesh, Refugees Face Food Insecurity and Monsoon Season

In southern Bangladesh, where the Rohingya refugee population has swelled since August 2017, humanitarian organizations focus on boosting food security and preparing for quick response to disasters during monsoon season rains.

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