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New Cookbook Boasts Healthy Recipes That Can Save the Planet

The U.N. and the Kitchen Connection Alliance have partnered to create a cookbook that empowers cooks of all levels to make healthier and climate-friendly meals.

Philadelphia Food Rescue Organization Develops a Scalable Model for Food Donation

In the last two years, Sharing Excess grew to become one of the largest food rescue operations in Philadelphia.

Rescuing the World’s Rarest Foods

The climate crisis, colonization, and prioritizing yield above all else has resulted in the loss of the world’s biodiversity.

20 Books About Food to Carry You Through Summer 2022

Uncover the hidden world of food this summer with these 20 books.

Sparking Conversations in Health and Wellbeing through the Fishing Forward Podcast

A new podcast reveals the mental health challenges fishing communities face.

Cutting Postharvest Food Loss and Waste

The Postharvest Education Foundation (PEF) supplies small and medium scale farmers with technologies to reduce food loss and waste.

Anti-Racism Farmers Market Toolkit Released to Help Market Managers

The Toolkit’s creators argue that the resource is needed to address various problems in society, including climate action and economic justice.

Community, Tradition, and Food Bring Health in The Kitchenistas Documentary

“The Kitchenistas” documentary shows that the journey to eating healthy requires a supportive community as much as it requires good food.

USAID Pledges Nearly $1.3 Billion to Support Food Security in the Horn of Africa

The effects of the climate crisis, compounded by the rising costs of cost of food, fuel, and fertilizer, are threatening to drive rates of hunger even higher.

Op-Ed: Upcycled Food Is on the Rise

It’s likely that consumers will soon realize that upcycled foods are more than just a passing trend.

Uplifting the Black Food Narrative

Chefs Tonya and David Thomas speak about their business H3irloom Food Group, uplifting the Black food narrative, and food education.

OpEd: The Healthful Mirage: Milk Versus Milk Analogues

When comparing milk and its alternatives misleading marketing is an important issue worth talking about.

Fighting Food Waste and Food Insecurity Through Legislation

During a recent event on Capitol Hill, lawmakers, policy experts, and advocates fighting food waste called on Congress to pass legislation that can help keep surplus food out of landfills and redirect it to those in need. The event was…

Scaling Agroecology: “Why Is Something So Compelling Also So Contentious?”

A new compendium and corresponding regional dialogue series explore the potential of agroecology and the factors undermining its success.

In the Driest Region of the World, Water Offers Peace

Transboundary water cooperation is seen as essential to ensure peace and stability in the MENA region.

Denmark to Roll Out New State-Run Climate Label for Food

Denmark’s Minister of Food, Agriculture, and Fisheries is establishing a working group of researchers, government officials, and representatives from leading Danish supermarket brands to create the new label.

The Inequality Pandemic: Agribusiness Billionaires Profit from Pain in Oxfam Brief

Oxfam’s new brief reveals how wealth inequalities, worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic, increased food insecurity for society’s most vulnerable.

Loiter Is Reimagining a New Future for East Cleveland

Loiter, a nonprofit in East Cleveland, Ohio, is reimagining a brighter future founded on economic justice for the city’s residents.

ReFED Launches New Tool to Track Funding Aimed at Food Waste

ReFED’s new tool allows users to follow trends in food waste reduction strategies and the financing that drives them.

New York May Be First State to Have Values-Based Food Purchasing

The Good Food NY Bill would make NYC the first to install a values-based approach to food purchasing.

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