The Blue Food Assessment (BFA) Campaign, Blue Foods: Better Choices, raises awareness about how supporting marine ecosystems contributes to sustainable diets.
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Global Alliance Report Highlights Investment Strategies for Resilient Food Systems
A new report encourages investors to use creative financial strategies to promote food system sustainability, resiliency, and equity.
Tea As A Catalyst For Social Change
Nepal Tea’s goal is to uplift one million people out of poverty in this generation.
The Global Alliance Releases Toolkit to Help Countries Prioritize Food Systems in Climate Policies
The Global Alliance for the Future of Food recently found that almost all countries overlook critical demand-side measures to integrate food systems transformation into climate policies.
Food Tech Startup Aims to Offer a More Sustainable Jackfruit-Based Meat Alternative
The Singapore-based food tech startup Karana Foods is working to support biodiversity and benefit farmers, consumers, and chefs, through a meat alternative made from jackfruit.
New App Combats Deforestation and Boosts Profits in Brazilian Amazon
A new app and project in Brazil uses silvopastoralism to restore biodiversity, combat deforestation, and improve profitability in the Amazon.
What Extreme Heat Means for Crop Productivity
Changes in crop productivity are expected to drive food prices and land use up.
New Book Lifts Up Traditional Farming Practices as a Solution to the Climate Crisis
Healing Grounds highlights traditional farming practices that can build resilience in response to climate change.
Is Fake Meat a False Promise? New Report Exposes the Politics of Alternative Proteins
The new Politics of Protein report by IPES-Food finds that fake meats “risk recreating the same problems of our industrial food system.”
Rockefeller Foundation Commits $105M to New Good Food Strategy
The Strategy marks the Foundation’s largest commitment to nutrition in its 109-year history.
These 19 Companies Are Ditching Plastic Packaging
The U.N. has declared plastic waste a planetary crisis. These companies are switching to more sustainable options for their food and beverage products.
Tackling the Climate Emergency through Diet Change
On “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg,” Raphael Podselver of ProVeg International discusses the impact of industrial livestock production on the environment, the challenge of shifting eaters’ diets, and the importance of putting food on the agenda at future global conferences.
Food Tank’s Spring 2022 Book List
Food Tank is rounding up 20 titles that celebrate ancestral farming practices, document the importance of marine ecosystems, introduce readers to new recipes, and more.
The Role of Agaves in Presilience at the Food/Water/Energy Nexus
Arid cities in the U.S./Mexico borderlands are using succulent crops in regenerative perennial food systems to reverse and halt climate change.
Transformative change cannot be done alone, says filmmaker Raj Patel
“Collectively, we have to get with the idea that we’re living on the same planet as everybody else, and we can’t go around trashing it,” says Patel.
Good for plate and planet: “The future has to be delicious”
According to Kamine, “if one out of every five pieces of chicken that we all ate was a Do Good Chicken, we’d solve food waste in the next five years.”
Eliminating Single Use Plastics, One Product at a Time
Over 50 companies joined the Zero Waste Campaign and committed to transition at least one packaging material to a more sustainable option by the end of 2022.
New FSI Report Measures Data-Driven Food System Solutions
Stakeholders of the food system have data to design sustainable solutions with the new 2021 FSI by Economist Impact.
USDA Invests US$1 Billion in Climate-Smart Agriculture
USDA announces a US$1 billion investment in pilot projects to support practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions or sequester carbon.
Costa Rican Agricultural Cooperative Resists Expansion of Large-Scale Pineapple Plantations
For four decades, the Costa Rican village and agricultural cooperative of Longo Maï has worked to resist the expansion of multinational pineapple plantations while defending the land, water, and labor rights of the local community.
