Public Health

Op-Ed | A Toxic Turn for Our Daily Bread: Why GMO Wheat Raises Serious Concerns

GMO has been kept off American fields because farmers, consumers, and trading partners recognize the serious risks it poses. What happens if that changes?

Aspen Institute Launches Community Roadmap to Scale Food is Medicine

Food & Society’s Executive Director, Corby Kummer, gives Food Tank new insight into the new Community Action Plan.

New Pilot Uses Instacart Platform to Improve Grocery Access

What happens when public health, community groups, and tech join forces to solve grocery access?

Food Tank’s Weekly News Roundup: Farm Leaders Warn of Collapse, Investors Ignore Methane, and Nipah Virus Alerts

This week’s roundup covers urgent warnings from farm groups, climate-driven crop shifts, investor inaction on methane, and regional health alerts.

Food Tank’s Weekly News Roundup: Tribal Nations Assert Food Sovereignty, Chile’s Wildfires Expand, and Ethiopia Faces Deepening Hunger

A weekly snapshot of how food systems, climate impacts, and policy decisions are shaping lives from Indigenous lands to classrooms and crisis zones.

Food Tank’s Weekly News Roundup: Soaring Ocean Temperatures, U.S. Retreat from Global Organizations, and 1,000 Days of Conflict in Sudan

This week’s top stories highlight global climate records, U.S. foreign policy shifts, stalled farm legislation, nutrition policy changes, and food insecurity in Sudan.

New Dietary Guidelines Focus on Reducing Processed Foods and Promoting Whole Foods

The Trump administration has released the 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, calling for reduced consumption of processed foods and refined carbohydrates while revising long-standing advice on fats, protein, and dairy.

From Checkout to Checkup: Reimagining the Role of the Grocery Aisle in Public Health

Instacart examines how online grocery access, modernized food assistance programs, and food as medicine initiatives can improve nutrition security and public health across the United States.

Food Tank’s Weekly News Roundup: U.S. Farm Bailout, Climate Tech for UAE Farmers, and Gene-Edited Crops in the EU

A look at major policy decisions this week affecting farmers, food systems, and agricultural innovation around the world.

Join Us on Capitol Hill Next Week to Ask: Are We Eating Ourselves Sick?

Food Tank is heading to Capitol Hill to explore a major public health challenge: ultra-processed foods.

Interrupting the Burden of Chronic Disease

The burden of chronic diseases is rising across the U.S. How do we interrupt the trend?

How Obesity and GLP-1s Are Reshaping Food and Public Health

Can drugs like Ozempic help us rethink the forces driving the obesity epidemic?

Food Tank’s Weekly News Roundup: U.S. Government Shutdown Continues, High Seas Treaty Takes Effect, and Agroecology Model Yields Benefits

This week’s stories cover cuts to SNAP, USDA shutdown impacts, a global ocean treaty, new dietary guidelines, and agroecology in India.

Food Is Medicine Requires Systemic Changes: ‘It’s No One Discipline’s Job to Solve Food Insecurity’

Amid rising food insecurity and cuts to federal nutrition programs, leaders at Climate Week NYC explore how food can be a tool for health, equity, and community resilience.

School Meals Can Nourish Children—and Regenerate the Food System

Regenerative school meals can nourish children, support farmers, and fight climate change—but they urgently need investment, panelists say at Climate Week NYC 2025.

Exploring Solutions for a Hotter, Hungrier World at Climate Week

Chefs, AI experts, philanthropies, and food advocates are uniting to explore food systems resilience at Climate Week NYC.

Food Tank and The Rockefeller Foundation to Spotlight Regenerative Food Systems at Climate Week NYC

Conversations will explore how regenerative school meals can trigger positive impact across the food value chain, from farmer to eater.

Food Tank’s Weekly News Roundup: Child Poverty in a Changing Climate, Increasing Food Prices, and Indigenous Sea Communities in Malaysia

Explore five urgent stories this week, from Climate Week NYC to collapsing coastal ecosystems and ballooning food prices.

Food for All: Addressing the Allergy Crisis to Build a Better Food System

Food allergies are on the rise. By turning awareness into action and funding new science, we can build a safer food system.

Draft MAHA Report Favors Research, Not Rules

A leaked draft MAHA Strategy to address childhood chronic disease highlights education and research but avoids tougher restrictions on industry.