This week, the U.S. restores health aid, countries adopt a framework on sustainable livestock management, corporations slow progress on ultra-processed foods, a new tool promises to boost water security.
Water
Food Tank Explains: El Niño
Changing Pacific Ocean temperatures during El Niño can trigger droughts, floods, and widespread impacts on food systems and marine ecosystems.
The Path Forward from Global Water Bankruptcy
The world is facing a state of water bankruptcy that will force food and agriculture systems to adapt.
Food Tank’s Weekly News Roundup: U.S. Grocery Prices Climb, Billionaire Wealth Soars, and Maryland Targets Dynamic Pricing
Groceries cost more, billionaires made more, and Maryland wants to stop dynamic pricing—plus a new treaty aims to protect life in the high seas.
Morocco’s Grassroots Movement to Preserve Crops and Culture
Through participatory agriculture and women’s empowerment, the High Atlas Foundation helps preserve traditional crops while cultivating resilience and biodiversity across Moroccan communities.
Food Tank’s Weekly News Roundup: Immigration Raids, Syrian Wildfires, and Tomato Tariffs
A roundup of this week’s biggest food stories, from ICE raids on farmworkers to missed targets on regenerative agriculture.
Colorado Water Plan Boosted with Prop JJ Funding
Additional funds support conservation efforts to protect agriculture, rivers, and communities.
Op-Ed | The Most Sustainable Fish You Probably Never Knew Existed
The Bering Sea offers a global model for how fish, fishers, and communities can all thrive.
Revitalizing Seas: Creating a Sustainable Future for Oysters
The MA Oyster Project aims to keep oyster shells out of landfills and create regenerative habitats for the shellfish.
Watershed Project Bolsters Food Security in the Philippines
The Carood Watershed Project, focused on restoring degraded forests and water reservoirs, connects ecological health and food security.
Acknowledge Agriculture: The Sector at the U.N. Water Conference that Is Not Receiving the Spotlight it Should
Agriculture must receive the attention it deserves at the U.N. Water Conference to ensure food security and protect the world’s natural resources.
In the Driest Region of the World, Water Offers Peace
Transboundary water cooperation is seen as essential to ensure peace and stability in the MENA region.
Wasting Food is Wasting Water: Unveiling Food’s Water Footprint
GRACE Communications Foundation helps individuals and policy makers reduce the water footprint of food by providing education on how to make choices that waste less water through the Water Footprint of Food Quiz and Guide.
How to Build a Sustainable Blue Food Economy
Bringing together more than 100 scientists, an initiative emphasizes the importance of aquatic foods to food systems transformation.
Costa Rican Agricultural Cooperative Resists Expansion of Large-Scale Pineapple Plantations
For four decades, the Costa Rican village and agricultural cooperative of Longo Maï has worked to resist the expansion of multinational pineapple plantations while defending the land, water, and labor rights of the local community.
Research in Tunisia Explores Women Pastoralists’ Roles in Climate Change Adaptation
Women in Tunisia are increasingly involved in livestock activities. Facilitating their access to training and resources could save Tunisia’s degraded rangelands and contribute to climate change adaptation.
Irrigating Crops with Wastewater May be the Future of Farming
By using recycled wastewater as irrigation in agriculture, some farmers are hoping to mitigate the pressures of worsening droughts.
Agrivoltaics May Offer Fresh Way to Produce Food and Energy
Placing solar panels on America’s farms could generate more than 100,000 rural jobs and eliminate as much carbon from the atmosphere as taking 71,000 cars off the road each year.
Integrated Approach Is Needed for Food System Change, Says New Report
The FABLE Consortium’s recent report proposes strategies and pathways for 20 countries to develop sustainable land-use and food systems.
Monoculture Could Worsen Vulnerability to Climate Change
To boost agricultural resilience, research suggests, policymakers and producers must create more diverse farms by considering how single-species fields interact with water and feed into environmental threats.