A healthy diet combined with exercise can reduce the risk of chronic diseases over a lifetime. Teaching healthy behaviors at a young age is key to sustaining long-term health.
World Food Prize Laureates Rise to the Challenge to End Child Malnutrition
2018 World Food Prize Laureates Drs. Lawrence Haddad and David Nabarro lead in unifying global nutrition efforts and reducing child malnutrition during the first 1,000 days of a child’s life.
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.
Opinion | Snacks and the City: The Malnutrition Cocktail
Rapid urbanization in low-income countries has negative consequences on the food system, which affects the physical, economic, and environmental health of these areas. The ‘Malnutrition Cocktail’ describes the convergence of hunger and obesity within these urbanized populations.
Digging Deeper: Annie’s Connects their Products to Healthy Soil
Annie’s unveils new programs in regenerative agriculture for improving soil health, fighting climate change, and connecting customers to the source of their food.
Evaluating the Future of Food through True Cost Accounting
In its new booklet, the Global Alliance for the Future of Food explains why we need True Cost Accounting to protect the future of our food, our health, and the health of our planet.
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.
“Sustainable Agriculture and Healthy Food Consumption Behaviors Go Together”
Pretty is on the Steering Committee for a new report from TEEB AgriFood. This report addresses how to evaluate our food system in the context of agriculture, ecology, and human health on a global level.
Nancy Tosta: Food Connects Us to Our Health
Nancy Tosta, a Board Member of Tilth Alliance, encourages everyone to seek out local produce and the need to connect our food to our health.
Mailee Walker on Food Leaders: “We can truly be a considered a movement to be reckoned with”
Executive Director of the Claneil Foundation, Mailee Walker seeks to connect complimentary voices and elevate the power of small actions to make big differences in community health.
