Given that the food sector currently generates nearly one-third of all climate-change emissions, we need a Democratic candidate who will transition our food system away from industrial agriculture.
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Alternative Use of Food Scraps: Building Communities
Small scale composting helps build community, improve local soil, and save cities up to US$250,000 a year.
Chef’s Smart Recipes for Customers, Farmers and the Planet
Indian Chef Anahita Dhondy cooks with millets, providing people with an opportunity to discover how beneficial smart foods are for their health, farmers, and the planet.
24 Faith-Based Organizations Promoting Food Security
Faith-based organizations have historically contributed to humanitarian aid worldwide, many of them with a focus on alleviating hunger and promoting food security.
The Bronner Mom Behind the Movement
Lisa Bronner transformed the curious costumers contacting Dr. Bronner’s into a movement demanding healthier products that better support farmers.
Financial Aid in Nigeria Creating a New Interest in Rural Fish Farming
Aquaculture in Nigeria has greatly benefited organizations like CORAF, which utilizes its WAAPP initiative to train people in rural fish farming.
Restoring Native American Health with Indigenous Foods
Since 2014, Oglala Lakota (Sioux) Chef Sean Sherman has championed returning to indigenous foods favored by Native Americans before colonization. An award-winning cookbook, chef training, a food truck and public dinners help to spread this message.
Using Aquaculture Development to Encourage Women’s Employment in West Africa
Through CORAF and its WAAPP initiative, rural Nigerian women have the opportunity to work through aquaculture.
Five Ways You’re Responsible for Change in the Food System: Food Tank in L.A.
For these leaders in L.A., the trigger for change in the food system is not startups, corporations, or policies—it is a newly conscious and passionate general public refusing to accept the status quo.
Promoting Integrated Fisheries in West Africa
CORAF has partnered with a number of West African universities in order to further develop integrated fisheries and aquaculture educational programs.
15 Inspiring Women Leading in the AgTech Sector
AgTech is becoming one of the fastest-growing sectors in Silicon Valley, with investments totaling over US10 million in 2017. Although women face numerous barriers to entry in this sector, a new generation of leaders is emerging to challenge the status quo and reshape the food system using their innovative technologies.
Castanea Fellows Rethink Justice in Food and Economy
The new fellow cohort from the Castanea Fellowship will confront the transformations needed to reintegrate equity and justice into the food system, in urban, rural, and tribal communities.
Creating Partnerships in Tokyo is Key to Effective Government Food Initiatives
Dr. Naoki Kondo, a social epidemiologist, talks about the Vegi-tabe Life Project implemented for promoting vegetable consumption of Adachi Ward residents in Tokyo, Japan, while emphasizing that creating partnerships is crucial for better results.
23 Restaurants Giving At-Risk Youth an Opportunity to Succeed
One in five adolescents in New Orleans are neither working nor enrolled in school. Café Reconcile, and 23 similar restaurants worldwide, is creating opportunities in the kitchens through culinary and life skill training programs.
To Have and to Throw: Tackling Indian Wedding Food Waste
Culture, rising incomes, and an appetite for global cuisines are fueling massive food waste by Indian weddings.
Leah Chase, Ambassador of Creole Food and Activism, Dies at 96
The world is mourning the loss of icon Leah Chase, who brightened her community in ways beyond serving up classic Creole cuisine.
Revitalizing rural economies in South Korea
According to Kyoungsoo Lim, we should devise new ways of selling produce and make more side jobs available for a more liveable rural community in South Korea.
Time to “Say No” to Atlantic Salmon in Australia
Aquaculture may be a key player in providing food security to a growing population, but if it isn’t done carefully, the environment on which it relies can pay the price.
Indian Celebrity Chef Cooks Up Traditional Grains and Fair Prices for Farmers
Ranveer Brar is an Indian celebrity chef who informs consumers about traditional cooking, while also empowering farmers through his work with International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT).
Cali Food Leaders Talk to Discuss Equity in Food System
West Coast food leaders are fed up with an unaffordable, inaccessible, inequitable food system: in San Francisco and LA, Food Tank is collaborating on solutions with these speakers.
