Publications

Piecing Together the Food System Puzzle

Carl Obst talks about how next generation, universal, and comprehensive TEEBAgriFood Report recognizes the complexity of the food system and allows policymakers to compare choices

Making the Invisible Visible: A Bold Strategy to Change the Food System

Dr. Barbara Gemmill-Herren talks about how groundbreaking, new TEEBAgriFood Report recognizes both negative and positive externalities in food system.

Improving the Food System One Dollar at a Time

Groundbreaking, new report helps make invisible externalities visible. Dr. Peter May, a chapter author, and steering member of TEEBAgriFood discusses how TEEBAgriFood report reveals the hidden costs in our food system.

Greenpeace Recommends 50 Percent Reduction in Meat and Dairy Consumption by 2050

Greenpeace’s new report on the meat and dairy system outlines key environmental and health impacts, and calls governments, businesses, and individuals to action.

New Report Provides Platform to Fix Broken Food Systems

We created the food system, so we must change it, according to Ruth Richardson, the Executive Director of the Global Alliance for the Future of Food. She discusses how new report can help facilitate this change while valuing ecosystem services.

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.

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.

Report Reveals Groundbreaking Results for Rice Farming

A new report reveals final results from the largest-ever regional project to expand the System of Rice Intensification, an agroecological rice farming methodology.

Opinion | Valuing the Food System

This piece explores a forthcoming report by the U.N. Environment Initiative on The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity for Agriculture & Food (TEEBAgriFood).

Linking the Health of People with the Health of the Planet

Alexander Müller focuses on a holistic view of the food system and talks to us about how the full food system puzzle reveals the true cost of cheap food.

Opinion | To Fight Climate Change, Policymakers Should Turn to Food

This piece is part of Food Tank’s work to promote a forthcoming report by the U.N. Environment Initiative on The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity for Agriculture & Food (TEEBAgriFood).

Can New Report Bring Transparency to the Food System?

Kavita Sharma talks about how a groundbreaking, new TEEBAgriFood Report helps create a more sustainable food system by shifting agriculture and food policy towards human, social and environmental health perspectives.

Enhancing Human and Planetary Health by Improving Agriculture

Dr. Harpinder Sandhu discusses the value of social, human, and natural capital in the agriculture and food systems and how the TEEBAgriFood report guides policymakers to a more sustainable food system.

New Report Seeks Justice in 2018 Farm Bill

The Farm Bill Law Enterprise’s series of reports call upon Congress to diversify the agricultural economy, improve food access and nutrition, and encourage productivity and risk management in new farm bill.

New Global Report Reveals Crucial Connections Between Food, the Environment, and Human Health

Renowned resource economist Dr. Anil Markandya discusses the methodologies used by TEEBAgriFood Report, and their role in addressing the challenges of monetizing non-economic aspects of the food and agriculture system.

Food and Beverage Sector Aims to Turn Climate Goals into Reality

Ceres’ new food and beverage sector report commends leadings companies on climate goals, but calls for bold plans across the sector in sustainability, water conservation, and human rights security.

“The Environment is our Economy”

Focusing on food waste, biodiversity, and externalities. Dr. Abdou Tenkouano discusses how the new TEEB AgriFood report optimizes all three.

Youth as the Future of the Global Food System

Speakers at the 2018 Global Food Security Symposium on “Youth for Growth” discuss following the lead of youth and farmers in food and agriculture.

World Water Day 2018: Working with Nature to Improve Global Water Management

The theme for this year’s World Water Day is “Nature for Water.” Read more about the annual UNESCO World Water Development Report and opportunities to combine traditional water infrastructure projects with nature-based solutions.

Global Food Policy Report Unveils Strategy for Reducing Hunger with Global Governance, Investment, and Trade

IFPRI’s Global Food Policy Report recommends international cooperation, governance, and trade to eliminate rising global hunger, undernourishment, and poverty.

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