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29 artists and organizations working at the intersection of food and the arts

Michelle Obama’s new cooking show encourages kids to swap frozen food for home-cooked meals and taste ingredients from different cultures.

To reduce consumer food waste, the Netherlands launches a public awareness campaign to inform consumers on their food labels.

Big Food targets children, manipulating their tendency to choose unhealthy foods. Nourished Planet describes needed policy actions to combat food advertising.

Innovations in Nutrition Education

Big Food Can Do Better: An Excerpt from Nourished Planet, Publishing in June 2018

Children and teenagers are the biggest targets of junk food advertising because they are easy to influence and have large spending potential now and in the future. Junk food marketed to children has long term public health consequences.

Hunger and obesity occur simultaneously within the same urban populations, a growing trend known as the ‘Malnutrition Cocktail.’

Opinion | Snacks and the City: The Malnutrition Cocktail

Rapid urbanization in low-income countries has negative consequences on the food system, which affects the physical, economic, and environmental health of these areas. The ‘Malnutrition Cocktail’ describes the convergence of hunger and obesity within these urbanized populations.

The TEEB for Agriculture & Food (TEEBAgriFood) Scientific and Economic Foundations report, a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) project, funded by the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, is looking at all the impacts of the value chain, from farm to fork to disposal, including effects on livelihoods, the environment, and health.

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.

Conversation: Agriculture Policy of the Future, Seattle University at the 2018 Food Tank Summit

How can we grow better food policy? Watch this fantastic discussion from the 2018 Seattle Food Tank Summit.

Keynote: Ken Cook, President and Co-Founder, Environmental Working Group, Seattle University at the 2018 Food Tank Summit

How can we grow better food policy? Watch this fantastic discussion from the 2018 Seattle Food Tank Summit.

Conversation: Innovations for the Future of Food, Seattle University at the 2018 Food Tank Summit

How can we grow better food policy? Watch this fantastic discussion from the 2018 Seattle Food Tank Summit.

Conversation: Cities Taking the Lead on Food Policy, Seattle University at the 2018 Food Tank Summit

How can we grow better food policy? Watch this fantastic discussion from the 2018 Seattle Food Tank Summit.

Keynote: Kristen Rainey, Google’s Global Food Program, Seattle University at the 2018 Food Tank Summit

How can we grow better food policy? Watch this fantastic discussion from the 2018 Seattle Food Tank Summit.

Keynote: Mark Musick, Retired Farmer & Co-Founder, Tilth Association, Seattle University at the 2018 Food Tank Summit

How can we grow better food policy? Watch this fantastic discussion from the 2018 Seattle Food Tank Summit.

Fireside Chat: Renee Erickson moderated by Bethany Jean Clement, Seattle University at the 2018 Food Tank Summit

How can we grow better food policy? Watch this fantastic discussion from the 2018 Seattle Food Tank Summit.