Nutrition Archives – Food Tank

SEYLOU works with local farmers to produce nutritious baked goods.

A Washington, D.C. Bakery is Transforming the Way We Eat Bread

Jonathan Bethony from SEYLOU is changing the way we bake with nutritious, diverse, and local grains.

Understanding food price volatility can lead to better policymaking, prevent social upheavals, and limit economic growth from pushing more into chronic hunger.

Precarious Prices for Food: An Excerpt from Nourished Planet

Food price volatility pushes millions into poverty, especially in low-income countries, leading to widespread malnutrition and civil unrest. Commodity prices are no longer determined by quality or supply and demand, rather financial speculators undermine the price of food, contributing to global ins

ICRISAT and the Akshaya Patra Foundation are joining forces to improve nutrition and food security in schools with nutritious mid-day meals.

Smarter Lunch Food in India

ICRISAT and the Akshaya Patra Foundation are joining forces to implement a new Smart Food-based mid-day meal program to improve nutrition and food security for Indian schoolchildren.

World Food Prize honors Drs. Lawrence Haddad and David Nabarro for changing the ways governments and food system actors treat child malnutrition.

Pioneers of Nutrition Win 2018 World Food Prize

2018 World Food Prize Laureates Drs. Lawrence Haddad and David Nabarro lead in unifying global nutrition efforts and reducing child malnutrition during the first 1,000 days of a child’s life.

GAIN aims to improve nutrition for everybody by improving the food system that connecting consumers to farmers.

Can Fixing Supply Chains Work as a Nutrition Intervention?

Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition is aligning supply chains with human need, for a better food system between farmer and consumer.

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

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.

With shared breakfasts, a mobile app, and government policy, Elijah Amoo Addo is determined to help end food waste in Ghana.

A Ghanaian Chef Feeding His Country and Combating Food Waste

In a nation with millions of children going hungry, one Ghanaian chef is working tirelessly to stop food waste by redistributing food to those in need.

ICRISAT is fighting malnutrition and undernutrition in Kenya with participatory cooking trainings and demonstrations for women.

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.

In Nourished Planet, the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition offers a hopeful but practical global plan for feeding ourselves sustainably. Edited by leading food advocate and Food Tank co-founder Danielle Nierenberg, the book assembles a diverse group of internationally renowned experts to chart a bold path forward.

Nourished Planet: Sustainability in the Global Food System

Nourished Planet offers a hopeful but practical global plan for feeding ourselves sustainably. Edited by leading food advocate and Food Tank co-founder Danielle Nierenberg, the book assembles a diverse group of internationally renowned experts to chart a bold path forward.