These chefs are using their kitchens to help preserve the world’s biodiversity.
How Fungi Can Help Solve the Climate Crisis
The Fungi Foundation is raising awareness about the essential role mushrooms and other fungi play.
Expanding Nutrition Initiatives in Lead-Up to U.N. Food Systems Summit
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is playing a key role in improving the nutrition landscape in Ethiopia.
Virginia Tech Research Explores Climate Change and the Future of Food in Nepal
Many communities in Nepal heavily rely on natural resources – the consequences of climate change will have a major disproportionate impact.
16 Resources for Eating Seasonally Around the World
These guides can help eaters find fresh, nutritious food all year long.
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.
Dietary Guidelines for Americans: There Are No Healthy People on an Unhealthy Planet
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans have the potential to better public health and the environment. But in recently released 2020-2025 guidelines do not go far enough.
24 Books About Food Recommended by Food Tank this Winter
Food Tank’s 2021 Winter Book List hopes to reignite hope and spark inspiration to change the global food system for the better.
Superfood Bar with Compostable Wrapper Reclaims Carbon
Impacts Snacks, a plant-based superfood bar company, is using compostable wrappers and reclaiming more carbon that it uses to make its bars.
Which Grocery Retailers Make the Grade on Bee-friendly Food?
A new scorecard ranks leaders and laggards on protecting pollinators from toxic pesticides in supply chains amid an “insect apocalypse.”
15 Organizations and Initiatives Helping to Save the Bees
Contributing author: Leslie Brooks More than 75 percent of the world’s food crops rely on pollinators, according to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). Through their pollination, bees not only promote biodiversity, but also secure our food supply. But one…
A South Indian Researcher is on a Quest to Find Forgotten Foods
A local South Indian researcher is highlighting forgotten foods of the region’s past and reintroducing them to the world.
Indigenous Peoples Hold the Past and Future of Food in Their Hands
International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples offers an opportunity to give thanks to the Indigenous cultures who steward the land and protect the world’s biodiversity.
28 Organizations Promoting Indigenous Food Sovereignty
These 28 organizations are preserving Indigenous food systems and promoting Indigenous food sovereignty.
27 Organizations Working to Conserve Seed Biodiversity
Food Tank is highlighting 27 seed saving organizations around the world that are working to preserve genetic diversity and protect food security.
Dr. Rattan Lal Awarded World Food Prize 2020
Dr. Rattan Lal, founding Director of the Carbon Management and Sequestration Center at The Ohio State University, is the recipient of the 2020 World Food Prize.
15 Indigenous Crops to Boost Your Immune System and Celebrate Biodiversity
Indigenous crops that are rich in nutrients like vitamins C and D, zinc, and iron can boost immune systems as well as the planet’s biodiversity—improving resilience to climate change, rebuilding soils, and supporting wildlife.
The Amazon Is Approaching its “Tipping Point,” Scientists Say
As deforestation and wildfires sweep across the Amazon rainforest, imminent destruction of world’s largest rainforest is on the horizon, claim rainforest experts Dr. Thomas Lovejoy and Dr. Carlos Nobre.
Supporting the Cerrado with Baru Nuts
Regenature, a Brazillian health foods importer and exporter, wants to regenerate the Cerrado by popularizing native baru nuts.
Global Soy Trade Drives Amazon Deforestation Amid Human Rights Concerns
Global demand for meat and dairy maintains the need for soy as animal feed across major supply chains. To be more sustainable, global traders and consumer good corporations should shift towards more environmentally friendly products, says Greenpeace.
