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Philanthropic collaboration pushing the agenda
for sustainable food systems transformation

Collective action for a more sustainable,
secure and equitable future of food

■ Strategic engagement ■ Informed by diverse voices ■
■ Built on varied evidence ■ In the spirit of collaboration ■

Working Groups

Advancing Well-being aims to strengthen the fundamental role that food systems play in creating and sustaining health and well being in all communities and populations.Read More

Agroecological Transitions aims to accelerate the transition to agroecology as a core solution to the challenges of the future of food. We seek to strengthen the practice and voice of agroecology, to uphold the integrity of natural systems and the human right to food, and to advocate for trade and investment policies that respect diverse and local food systems.Read More

Externalities aims make visible the full costs of producing food by investing in efforts to identify, measure and value the positive and negative environmental, social and health externalities of food and agricultural systems, and to deploy innovative strategies to affect associated policy and market change.Read More

Priority Initiatives

TEEBAGRIFOOD

Making the economic case for sustainable food systems

Seeds

Amplifying efforts to strengthen resilient seed systems

Health Externalities

Demonstrating food system impacts on health and well-being

Beacons of Hope

Shining a light on pathways to more sustainable food systems

Animal Agriculture

Exploring the complexities of livestock production and meat consumption

Climate Change

Highlighting the nexus between climate change and food systems

New & Noteworthy

Unravelling the Food-Health Nexus

IPES-Food/Global Alliance for the Future of Food publication Unravelling the Food-Health Nexus: Addressing Practices, Political Economy, and Power Relations to Build Healthier Food Systems provides a comprehensive overview of the health impacts of food systems, identifying the channels through which food systems affect human health, and how prevailing power relations and imperatives in food systems help to shape our understanding of the impacts they generate.Read More

The Future of Food in a Climate Changing World: 2nd International Dialogue Summary Report

In May 2017, the Global Alliance hosted its 2nd International Dialogue: The Future of Food in a Climate Changing World. This summary report is an overview of the dialogue, opportunities explored, and potential actions the Global Alliance and participating experts and leaders identified as potential pathways towards a more sustainable, secure and equitable future of food.Read More

IPES-Food, Global Alliance for the Future of Food Launch Report on Health Impacts of Food Systems at Committee on Food Security 44

The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) and Global Alliance for the Future of Food will launch a new report, Unravelling the Food-Health Nexus: Addressing Practices, Political Economy, and Power Relations to Build Healthier Food Systems at a side event at the 44th meeting of the Committee on Food Security on 9 October 2017.Read More

Draft Report: Climate Change & Food Systems: Assessing Impacts and Opportunities

The Future of Food in a Climate Changing World

10 July 2017

In early May 2017 the Global Alliance for the Future of Food brought over 250 experts and leaders from the local to the global to gain deeper insights into the connections between climate change and food systems, to craft visions of the food systems we need today and tomorrow, and to chart potential pathways to get there.Watch Now

Food Tank Summit - Boston

In April 2017, the Global Alliance was invited to participate on a panel on true cost accounting at Food Tank’s Boston Summit, moderated by The Washington Post’s Tamar Haspel, and with co-panelists Nicole Cirillo, Jessica Fanzo, Oliver Gottfried and Tim Wise.Watch Now

BCFN– International Forum on Food & Nutrition 2016

November 2016

In November 2016, the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition hosted its 7th International Forum. Global Alliance Executive Director, Ruth Richardson calls for systems level transformation of food systems to support a sustainable future of food.Watch Now

IUCN Congress 2016

September 2016

The Global Alliance was invited to host a high-level meeting at the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2016 on how efforts towards sustainable food and agriculture link with conservation. Executive Director, Ruth Richardson reported back to the full congress at a keynote address at the opening session, and moderated a panel with leaders on this topic.Watch Now

UN Political Forum on Sustainable Development

September 2016

WHO, together with the FAO, launched the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition in July 2016. The Global Alliance was asked to speak at a High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development to explore how governments can work with partners to improve nutrition outcomes.Read More

EAT: Stockholm Food Forum

20 June 2016

Ruth Richardson, Executive Director of the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, talks about creating a new narrative for sustainable food systems, at the EAT Food Forum in Stockholm.Watch Now

Achim Steiner

20 June 2016

The Global Alliance for the Future of Food is a new alliance of foundations committed to leveraging our resources to help shift food and agriculture systems towards greater sustainability, security, and equity.Watch Now

2015 International Dialogue

20 June 2016

A message from His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales for the Global Alliance International Dialogue in Milan, 18-19 May 2015.Watch Now

Philanthropic collaboration pushing the agenda
for sustainable food systems transformation

Philanthropic collaboration pushing the agenda
for sustainable food systems transformation

Collective action for a more sustainable,
secure and equitable future of food

Collective action for a more sustainable,
secure and equitable future of food

■ Strategic engagement ■ Informed by diverse voices ■
■ Built on varied evidence ■ In the spirit of collaboration ■

■ Strategic engagement ■ Informed by diverse voices ■
■ Built on varied evidence ■ In the spirit of collaboration ■

Working Groups

Priority Initiatives

TEEBAGRIFOOD

Seeds

Health Externalities

Beacons of Hope

Animal Agriculture

Climate Change