Pre-harvest sugar field burning poses a threat to health and personal belongings, in communities surrounding the Everglades Agricultural Area.
Innovation for Sustainability
Block by Block: Florida Blue and Building Food Secure Communities in Florida
The Block by Block event for building food secure communities in Florida engaged leaders in the conversation of merging food and health and recognized twelve finalists in the Wellbeing Challenge for their efforts to fight food insecurity.
Apply for the Food System Vision Prize to Envision a Better Food System for 2050
The Food System Vision Prize, launched by the Rockefeller Foundation, SecondMuse, and OpenIDEO, will reward proposals that inspire farmers, policymakers, businesspeople, activists, and eaters to build a more sustainable food system.
Colorado Springs Food Rescue—Supporting Community-Driven Change
The Colorado Springs Food Rescue community-driven model is overcoming barriers to food access and creating a more sustainable food system.
14 Women Changing Food Around the World
From empowering smallholder farmers in the developing world, to building food as medicine into the medical system, to re-imagining a more accessible and sustainable grocery store, these women are changing the way we eat around the world. Here are their stories.
A Next-Gen Food and Ag Accelerator Launches for Young Entrepreneurs
In tandem with its annual competition, Thought For Food is launching its Digital Labs, a digital accelerator designed for young food and agriculture entrepreneurs. Participants will have access to mentorship, resources, and a global network.
Meet the Chef Leading Australia’s Sustainable Seafood Scene
Creating a sustainable food system that contains fish is possible, but requires us to look beyond the fillet. Chef Josh Niland from the Australian restaurant Saint Peter talks about how it can be done.
From Farms to Incubators: Poornima Parameswaran of Trace Genomics Inc.
A new generation of women-led startups including Trace Genomics is providing novel solutions to agriculture’s problems with tech innovation.
Stonyfield Launches OpenTEAM Platform to Promote Sustainable Farming
Stonyfield Organic’s new OpenTEAM platform aims to provide farmers worldwide with a free data ecosystem to manage adaptive soil health on farms and reach carbon sequestration targets.
New Burger Joint Is Celebrating Plant, Planet, and Plenty More
A new restaurant in Silver Spring, Maryland is offering customers a plant-based experience that connects eaters to the food system in a burger joint.
Eight Innovations Ending Food Loss in the Global South
From solar-powered cold storage to garden waste powered food dehydrators, we highlight eight examples of how innovators are ending food loss in the developing world.
Opinion | Why Talk of Regenerative Agriculture Should Include Pesticide Reduction
Soil carbon sequestration is becoming a topic for farmers and politicians alike—but which conversations will distinguish sustainability from trend?
Scientific and Traditional Knowledge Is Helping Save the World’s Largest Freshwater Fish
This program brought an average increase of 29 percent per year in the Arapaima fish population in the region, and an average increase of 25 percent per yearin the income of communities.
The Terraton Initiative: Working to Remove a Trillion Tons of Carbon
The Terraton Initiative is working with scientific research partners and industry leaders in order to reduce carbon emissions while promoting innovation.
Rethinking Food Packaging May Address the Plastic Crisis
A significant amount of the plastic polluting our environment originates from packaging in the food industry. Now that society is demanding something be done about plastics, companies are rethinking how we can package food.
Opinion | New Report Profiles 21 Organizations Transforming Food Systems
A new report from the Global Alliance for the Future of Food and Biovision Foundation for Ecological Development points clearly to the nature- and people-based solutions available to us.
Hawaiian Fishpond Restoration Looks to the Past to Feed the Future
He’eia is the second largest of about 40 fishponds left in the Hawaiian Islands, and this non-profit has worked to rebuild and preserve the traditional structure since 2001, looking at ancient foodways that could, if permitted and desired, feed the entire island.
Using Greenhouses to Help Farmers Build Climate Resilience
Nonprofit Kheyti has designed an affordable greenhouse which allows farmers to grow seven times the amount of food using 90 percent less water, stabilize incomes, and build climate resilience.
Regenerative Agriculture with Dr. Bronner’s
Dr. Bronner’s is working to reverse negative environmental and social impacts associated with global agribusinesses. Dr. Bronner’s soaps are known to have 18-in-One uses, one use is to promote constructive capitalist through fair trade, organic principles, regenerative agriculture, worker’s rights, and animal welfare.
WRI Proposes New Sustainable Menu to Feed the World by 2050
New WRI report sheds light on the current and future solutions we can apply to build food security to 10 billion people by 2050 without compromising ecosystems or the climate.
