Food Security

Hunger Doesn’t Take a Summer Vacation: 19 Summer Feeding Programs for Kids

During the summer, community organizations find creative ways to feed children who are food insecure.

Healthy Retail Programs Help Transform Local Corner Stores

Innovative healthy retail programs are changing the way we eat, one corner store at a time.

Brazil’s Dietary Guidelines: Eat Real Food, Together

Brazil’s dietary guidelines provide sensible, food-based advice to combat the double burden of undernutrition and obesity.

Students Develop Innovative Solution to Reduce Food Insecurity in Nunavut

Students developed an initiative to reduce food insecurity in Iqaluit, Nunavut.

20 Native North American Foods with Stories to Tell

Twenty indigenous North American crops important to the histories and cultures of Native Americans and early settlers.

How the Philippines is Using a Robot to Plan for Natural Disasters

The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization embarked on a drone initiative with the Philippine government to reduce disaster risk in the agriculture sector.

NRDC’s Auntie Biotic Petitions for KFC to Reform its Antibiotics Policies

NRDC’s chicken mascot Auntie Biotic petitions to push KFC to stop sourcing chickens that are routinely fed antibiotics even in good health.

What Will it Take to End Global Malnutrition by 2030?

The Global Nutrition Report examines the state of nutrition in the world and what it will take to end global malnutrition by 2030.

New Developments in the System of Rice Intensification (SRI): An Interview with Norman Uphoff

Food Tank interviewed Norman Uphoff to learn about recent updates with his work.

Is it Possible to Grow Spinach Locally and Year-Round?

How can we grow spinach year-round while conserving land, water, and food miles? Check out this How Does it Grow episode to find out.

The First 1,000 Days by Roger Thurow: Eliminating Global Malnutrition 1,000 Days at a Time

Roger Thurow’s The First 1,000 Days follows 12 women from 4 countries as they struggle to provide the best care for their babies in the crucial first 1000 days.

Open Agriculture Initiative: Is Digital Farming the Future of Food?

MIT Open Agriculture Initiative is on a mission to digitalize agriculture using desktop Personal Food Computers and carefully engineered climate recipes.

Putting “Dollars on the Data:” Map the Meal Gap Report Sheds Light on Food Insecurity in U.S.

The 2016 Map the Meal Gap report provides sobering data about food insecurity and food assistance at the local level in the United States.

17 Farmer Heroes for Sustainability, Equality, and Defense of Traditions

Check out these seventeen farmer heroes who, from poetry to advocacy, are doing more than putting food on our plates.

Louisville, KY: Betting Jobs on Rural-Urban Food Connections

Louisville, Kentucky, gets local food flowing with rural outreach.

The Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive Gives Americans a One-Month Opportunity to Reduce Hunger

During the month of May, the Stamp Out Hunger campaign gives Americans the opportunity to donate and re-route food to the needy.

Helping Smallholder Farmers Build Stronger Businesses with Information and Communication Technology

Information and communication technology can offer new business opportunities for smallholder farmers.

Ten Questions with Pamela Fessenden of the USAID Bureau for Food Security

Food Tank spoke with Pamela Fessenden of the USAID Bureau for Food Security, who will be speaking at the Food Tank Summit in Washington, D.C.

Ten Questions with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack

Food Tank spoke with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who will be speaking at the Food Tank Summit in Washington, D.C.

Ten Questions with Spike Mendelsohn, Chairman of the D.C. Food Policy Council

Food Tank spoke with Spike Mendelsohn, Chef and Chairman of the D.C. Food Policy Council, who will be speaking at the Food Tank Summit in Washington, D.C.

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