We created the food system, so we must change it, according to Ruth Richardson, the Executive Director of the Global Alliance for the Future of Food. She discusses how new report can help facilitate this change while valuing ecosystem services.
Food Tank
Empowering Kenyan Women with Nutrition Education
By facilitating participatory cooking training and educational demonstrations, ICRISAT is empowering Kenyan women and improving the nutrition, dietary diversity, and wellbeing of rural families.
The True Cost of Food: An Excerpt from Nourished Planet, Publishing in June 2018
Agriculture affects the environment, health, fair labor, employment, food security, and many other aspects of society. Nourished Planet explores new approaches like true cost accounting, to quantify the true cost of the food system as a way to catalyze change in the current system.
The Culinary Explorer
An advocate for preserving India’s culinary traditions and local, sustainable fishing, top chef and culinary explorer, Manjit Gill, calls on chefs to take the lead in the good food movement.
Remembering Anthony Bourdain: Advocate, Chef, TV Personality
Anthony Bourdain, an acclaimed chef, writer, and television personality, dies at age 61. As a fearless traveler and gifted storyteller, his work impacted restaurants across the globe, educated on the need for food waste solutions throughout the industry, and presented food and meals as sources of joy and connection.
Botanical Gardens: Allies in Food Security and Nutrition
There are opportunities to reach out to and collaborate with botanical gardens as fellow travelers in the progressive agri-food movement on issues of plant biodiversity, pollination, and food security.
Previously Cleared: This New Tool is Curbing Deforestation
Agroideal, the online land use planning platform, expands to the Amazon and Cerrado regions of Brazil to prevent deforestation and encourage sustainable agricultural development.
Clover Food Lab is the Future of Fast Food
Ayr Muir, CEO of Clover Food Lab, is changing the way people think about fast food. Consumers are choosing Clover’s local, fresh, and more sustainable ingredients over other fast food chains’ because of outstanding taste.
HelloFresh and Spoiler Alert Team Up to Reduce Food Waste
Using data, this meal kit company was able to divert 65 percent of its food surplus away from landfills and towards America’s food insecure.
Digging Deeper: Annie’s Connects their Products to Healthy Soil
Annie’s unveils new programs in regenerative agriculture for improving soil health, fighting climate change, and connecting customers to the source of their food.
Revealing Food’s Hidden Costs: New Framework for Food and Agriculture
Culminating over a decade of research by dozens of experts, the TEEB for Agriculture & Food (TEEBAgriFood) Scientific and Economic Foundations report evaluates the impacts of the value chain, from farm to fork to disposal, including effects on livelihoods, the environment, and health.
Diabetes is on the Rise in India: Is Fast Food to Blame?
The fast-food industry in India is rapidly growing while 73 million Indians have diabetes, and this number is set to nearly double by 2045. How can the Indian government turn the tide on this public health crisis?
Feeding America: “Americans Struggling with hunger don’t qualify for federal nutrition assistance”
A study by Feeding America reveals that most Americans struggling with hunger do not qualify for federal food assistance. Findings will provide policymakers and influencers with an evidence base to develop integrated hunger strategies.
Preserving Africa’s Cultural Heritage at the Dinner Table
Changing lifestyles and a reliance on imported food is eroding traditional cuisine in Ghana. Through food across the continent, this Ghanaian chef is celebrating and preserving Africa’s culinary heritage, one yassa, maboke, or fonio jollof at a time.
Want to Eat Bugs?
Robert Nathan Allen, the founder of Little Herds, uses insects to promote a nutritious lifestyle and healthy environment as an integral piece of the sustainable food system puzzle.
Report Reveals Groundbreaking Results for Rice Farming
A new report reveals final results from the largest-ever regional project to expand the System of Rice Intensification, an agroecological rice farming methodology.
New Film Shows How the World Can Feed 10 Billion People by 2050
Valentin Thurn’s new film 10 Billion What’s On Your Plate is available now on Video On Demand. Watch to see how we’re going to feed 10 billion people by the year 2050.
Opinion | Valuing the Food System
This piece explores a forthcoming report by the U.N. Environment Initiative on The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity for Agriculture & Food (TEEBAgriFood).
Linking the Health of People with the Health of the Planet
Alexander Müller focuses on a holistic view of the food system and talks to us about how the full food system puzzle reveals the true cost of cheap food.
Urgent Call for EU Agricultural Policy Reforms Sends Food Leaders to Forum
The EU Food and Farming Forum on May 29–30, 2018 gathers food leaders in Brussels to create a Plan B to EU agricultural policies.
