Opening Remarks: Chris Cochran, Executive Director, ReFED (NYC Summit)
Food Tank
Opening Remarks: Joan Briggs, Executive Director, The Fink Family Foundation (2017 Food Tank NYC Summit)
Opening Remarks by Joan Briggs, Executive Director, The Fink Family Foundation
Seven New York Chefs Celebrating African Culture and Cooking
African Chefs who will participate in NYC African Restaurant week discuss their upbringing, influences on their cuisine, and how they address sustainability.
16 Organizations Fighting the Global Hunger Increase
The U.N. released a new report showing a five percent increase in global hunger despite eradication efforts. These organizations are using regenerative agriculture and agroecology to fight back.
Remembering Gus Schumacher: Farm Hero and Food Justice Advocate
Gus Schumacher, food justice advocate and farmers market proponent, passed away at age 77.
U.N. Report Global Hunger Report Highlights Need for “Conflict-Sensitive Approach”
A new United Nations collaborative report finds global hunger, exacerbated by conflict and climate crises around the world, is on the rise.
Tutwiler: “Agrobiodiversity holds the key to future food security”
Ann Tutwiler discusses report from Bioversity International on connections between agrobiodiversity and nutrition, sustainability, food security, conservation, and resilience.
Interactive Toolkits Unpack the Histories of Pesticides
A team of researchers with the Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN) has created a series of interactive educational tools to explore the histories of widely-used pesticides, including glyphosate, dicamba, and 2,4-D.
After Hurricane Maria, Long-Term Recovery Efforts Are Crucial
Hurricane Maria is the strongest storm to hit Puerto Rico in almost a century. Major flooding, landslides, and a completely decimated power grid means long-term recovery efforts are crucial.
Free the Seed: An Open Source Approach to Food Crop Seed
Inspired by the free and open source software movement that has provided alternatives to proprietary software, the Open Source Seed Initiative was created to ‘free the seed’—to make sure that at least some crop genetic diversity cannot be locked away from use by intellectual property rights.
Herbicide Dicamba Can Stay Volatile for 36 Hours, Arkansas Researchers Say
Farmers in nearly a dozen states are complaining about dicamba, the primary ingredient of a new Monsanto herbicide, blowing into their fields and allegedly ruining their crops.
New Orleans Chefs Challenged to Create School Lunches for US$1.25
On September 29, 2017, the Chef Ann Foundation is bringing a Celebrity Chef Edition of The Real School Food Challenge to New Orleans. The organizers will be challenging a group of New Orleans’ most prominent chefs to create healthy school lunch recipes for just US$1.25 per meal.
Youth Farming Program Seeks Executive Director in New Orleans
Grow Dat Youth Farm promotes youth leadership, food justice, and sustainability.
Conservationist Danielle Fox: Without Monarch Butterflies, “We Really Are in Bad Shape”
Food Tank spoke with Danielle Fox, the community conservationist for the city of Columbia, Missouri, to get her take on what we can do to save monarch butterflies and why it’s worth doing.
Mindfully Meeting the Food Waste Challenge to Improve Nutrition for Plants and People
The Food and Health Lab discusses their research which challenges institutions, consumers, and food producers to mindfully reduce food waste to improve nutrition for plants and people.
Leaders Gather to Develop Sustainable Solutions in Asia-Pacific
EAT Foundation holds Asia-Pacific Food Forum in Indonesia to discuss sustainability, health, food systems, agriculture, and how to achieve the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals in the most populous region of the world.
Sowing the Seeds for Agriprenurship in Northwest Cambodia
Focus-group discussions with secondary school students sowing the seeds for sustainable agriculture and rural entrepreneurship in Northwest Cambodia
Project Green Challenge 2016 Finalist Hannah Watts
Project Green Challenge 2016 finalist Hannah Watts speaks about her life changing experience and her transition from a conventional consumer to a conscious consumer and global citizen.
Smart Kitchen Summit Explores the Future of Food, Cooking, and the Kitchen
The third annual Smart Kitchen Summit will be held on October 10 and 11, 2017, in Seattle, Washington. The Summit aims to gather leaders in the home appliance, culinary, grocery, smart home, and technology industries to discuss the future of food, cooking, and the kitchen.
Uniting Chefs, Eaters, and Plant Breeders: The 2017 Variety Showcase
The Culinary Breeding Network will bring together 500 chefs, plant breeders, and others in Portland, OR in October to share, discover, and taste new vegetables and grain cultivars that make for culinary excellence
