The Friedman School is expanding its educational portfolio, refocusing its research themes, and deepening its global impact.
Feeding Kids an Understanding of Why Food Matters
These 26 organizations around the world are working tirelessly to teach kids about nutrition, gardening, and cooking.
FoodPrints: Cultivating Healthy Futures in D.C. Schools
FoodPrints is enriching school curricula with gardening, cooking, and nutrition to empower students and foster sustainable, healthy lifestyles.
Let’s Make 2024 the Year of Food is Medicine!
Successful food is medicine programs must be based in meaningful partnerships, building bridges across sectors, and centering community expertise.
Feeding the Future: Newman’s Own Foundation Calls for Projects to Improve Food Justice for Children
Applications are open for the Food Justice for Kids Prize, which is seeking projects to address Indigenous food justice and nutrition education.
Empowering Kids with Nutrition Education
Kids In Nutrition wants to foster healthy habits in young eaters.
NYC Unveils First Ever Roadmap to Revolutionize Food Education in Public Schools
The roadmap outlines goals and strategies to improve healthy eating habits among K-12 students in New York City’s public schools.
Inspired Curriculum Garners Accolades with Positive Ground-Up Impact on Health & Wellness
The Green Bronx Machine Classroom Curriculum is expanding, reaching 15,000 more students and equipping schools with training, tower gardens, cooking supplies, and more.
10 Projects Increasing the Resilience of Urban Food Systems
From La Paz to Mezitli, these cities are home to projects that are nourishing eaters and making food systems more sustainable.
Seven Ways to Fight for Food Justice
In honor of World Justice Day, Food Tank is celebrating different ways to support food justice efforts around the world and the organizations committed to this work.
26 Children’s Books to Nourish Growing Minds
Food Tank’s list of children’s books to read about food and the food system.
New on the Podcast: Food and Nutrition Educators Find New Ways to Meet Students’ Needs
On this week’s episode of “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg,” hear about the teachers and educational organizations working to ensure that students stay fed and engaged.
Marc Oshima on Innovations in Urban Vertical Farming and Frida Herrera-Endinjok on Nutrition Justice
According to AeroFarms co-founder and CMO Marc Oshima, vertical farming and aeroponics can help slow climate change and support community food security. Later, student activist and master gardener Frida Herrera-Endinjok describes her approach to nutrition justice: building urban gardens and fighting food waste.
Brighter Bites Works to Fuel Kids with Healthy Food
Brighter Bites co-founders Lisa Helfman and Dr. Shreela Sharma provide fresh and healthy food options to families living far away from supermarkets.
Creating Partnerships in Tokyo is Key to Effective Government Food Initiatives
Dr. Naoki Kondo, a social epidemiologist, talks about the Vegi-tabe Life Project implemented for promoting vegetable consumption of Adachi Ward residents in Tokyo, Japan, while emphasizing that creating partnerships is crucial for better results.
Opinion | Congresswoman Alma Adams on Hunger and Closing the Gap
Congresswoman Alma Adams of North Carolina 12th District speaks about increasing minimum wage, improving access to healthy foods, better food education, and getting all government officials in agreement for the greater good of the community.
20 Organizations Planting the Seeds for Food Justice in Prisons
With more sustainable food programs being offered to inmates, Food Tank brings you 20 organizations fighting for food justice in prisons around the globe.
Big Food Can Do Better: An Excerpt from Nourished Planet, Publishing in June 2018
Children and teenagers are the biggest targets of junk food advertising because they are easy to influence and have large spending potential now and in the future. Junk food marketed to children has long term public health consequences.
