Food Security

In Colorado Springs, Food to Power Builds Resilience from the Ground Up

Even as nonprofits face challenging and uncertain times, Food to Power is doubling down on serving its community.

Food Tank Explains: Agroforestry

Agroforestry integrates trees, crops, and livestock into interconnected systems that can benefit farmers, communities, and ecosystems.

Sydney’s Youth Work to Alleviate Hunger

A youth-led volunteer initiative in Sydney is combatting hunger by providing home cooked meals to some of the city’s most vulnerable.

“Courage Is Contagious”: Inside A Whistleblower’s Fight To Protect USAID

Nicholas Enrich, formerly one of the top global health officials at USAID, shares the devastating global impact of the organization’s dismantlement.

YumLit Combines Playful Mealtimes With a Mission to End Food Insecurity

A new company YumLit is working to bring joy to family mealtimes through interactive light-up plates. As a social venture, they plan to share proceeds with nonprofit organizations committed to tackling food and nutrition insecurity in their communities and around…

Food Tank’s Weekly News Roundup: Global Politics Reshape Food Security, Fiji Pushes Organic Ag, WFP Scales School Meals

India and Fiji look to future-proof their food systems, a new geopolitics is reshaping food security, and WFP announces they are scaling school feeding programs in East Africa.

School Meals Do More Than Feed Kids—They Can Re-Nourish The Planet

Regenerative school meals can be a source of growth and prosperity, offering $3 trillion in global economic productivity.

One Year On: How Trump and Vance Have Changed Food, Agriculture, Health, and Climate

Follow the policies, trace the impacts, and see how food and agriculture systems are being reshaped in real time.

Food Tank’s Weekly News Roundup: Kenyan Women Defy Gender Norms, President Trump Calls for Cuts to WIC, Anti-Immigration Policies Fail

Kenyan women are taking to the water, Asia is looking into more sustainable packaging, and anti-immigration laws are failing to gain support.

Creating Dignified Jobs for Youth through Agricultural Research and Innovation

Insects might be small but they offer a range of benefits to food and agriculture systems.

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.

Food Tank’s Weekly News Roundup: The Future of Vertical Farming, Warming Temperatures Threaten Food Security, Côte d’Ivoire Invests in Women Farmers

The future of vertical farming appears uncertain, Côte d’Ivoire builds tech hubs for women farmers, and new research reveals that warming temperatures could push critical food insecurity higher.

A Volunteer-Powered Solution to Food Insecurity in Virginia

A Virginia community farm grows and donates 100 percent of its fresh, nutrient-rich food to the food insecure.

You’re Invited: We’re Talking ‘All Things Food’ at SXSW and Blue Foods in Boston

Food Tank is bringing regional and global food system leaders together to break bread, share success stories, spotlight creative visionaries, and highlight ways we can build a stronger food and agriculture systems.

ICE’s Impact on Food Security, as Seen Through Joyce Uptown Food Shelf

Minneapolis food shelves have been forced to innovate like never before to meet the community’s need.

Food Tank’s Weekly News Roundup: The Next Farm Bill, Producers Stand Their Ground, and the Latest Progress on Deforestation

This week’s roundup covers the latest with the Farm Bill, progress to combat deforestation in Brazil, and the farmers pushing back against data center development.

New Pilot Uses Instacart Platform to Improve Grocery Access

What happens when public health, community groups, and tech join forces to solve grocery access?

‘Innovation Is in Our DNA’: How OzHarvest Is Turning Surplus into Solutions

OzHarvest’s founder Ronni Kahn realizes some may think she’s “completely mad,” but she’s on a mission to end hunger and food waste—redesigning society in the process.

Food Tank’s Weekly News Roundup: Tribal Nations Assert Food Sovereignty, Chile’s Wildfires Expand, and Ethiopia Faces Deepening Hunger

A weekly snapshot of how food systems, climate impacts, and policy decisions are shaping lives from Indigenous lands to classrooms and crisis zones.