Agroecology We aim to accelerate the transition to agroecology as a core solution to the future of food.Read More
Health & Well-Being We aim to amplify the fundamental role that food systems play in creating health and well-being in all ecosystems, human and non-human communities, making the impact of food systems on health and well-being more visible.Read More
True Cost Accounting We aim to make visible the full costs of 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 effect associated policy and market change.Read More
This publication highlights the Global Alliance for the Future of Food’s collective and individual member efforts to support agroecology as a core solution to the future of food by working together and with others to enhance agroecological science, practice, and movements.Read More
Around the world an extensive network of tens of thousands of people and initiatives are currently engaged in transformative change, seeking to build sustainable food systems.Read More
In early April in Brussels, Belgium, 100 diverse business, donor, civil society, research, government, and food system actors came together from around the world to discuss true cost accounting’s role in accelerating transformative change across food systems.Read More
The Global Alliance is pleased to announce that both the David Rockefeller Fund and the 11th Hour Project have joined our alliance of philanthropic foundations working together and with others to transform global food systems now and for future generations. This brings the alliance up to 25 international foundations committed to strategic, collaborative action for food systems transformation.Read More
We are pleased to announce the election of new Co-Chairs to the Global Alliance: Scott Cullen, Executive Director of GRACE Communications Foundation in New York City, and Jane Maland Cady, Director of the International Program of the McKnight Foundation in Minneapolis, have stepped into this role to provide strategic leadership and direction following on the strong tenure of Guillermo Castilleja, Senior Fellow of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.Read More
Food systems play a fundamental role in creating health and well-being in all ecosystems, human and non-human communities. For the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, it is a priority to make the positive and negative impacts of food systems on health and well-being more visible.Read More
We are pleased to announce the addition of two new members to the Global Alliance Coordinating Secretariat: Patty Fong joins us as Program Director, Climate and Health & Well-being, and Amanda Jekums joins the Global Alliance as Program Coordinator.Read More
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
At Dumfries House, Scotland, in early May 2018, HRH The Prince of Wales and Sustainable Food Trust hosted a convening on the Future of Food and Farming, with the Global Alliance for the Future of Food as a collaborative partner. In connection to its ongoing work on the positive and negative externalities of the food system, the Global Alliance hosted a session on true cost accounting (TCA) with a stellar panel.Read More
Lauren Baker recently visited Mexico in preparation for a strategic convening the Global Alliance is planning on resilient seed systems. While in Oaxaca, she saw first-hand how the deep historical connection to the milpa (maize system) is tied to socio-cultural and culinary traditions, local livelihoods, as well as the region’s ecological diversity.Read More
Supported by a range of subsidies and other government policies, cheap food has been linked to environmental, health and social problems. In January 2018, The Agenda welcomed Global Alliance Executive Director, Ruth Richardson, and TEEBAgriFood Study Lead, Alexander Muller, to discuss how true cost accounting frameworks like TEEBAgriFood can transform the food system towards more sustainable practices.Watch Now
On 12 December 2017 the Global Alliance for the Future of Food hosted a webinar presenting the findings of the recent Unravelling the Food-Health Nexus report. The webinar recording is now available, along with a Q&A Summary with responses from report lead Cécilia Rocha and webinar discussants Roberto Ciati, Simon Poole, and Olivia Yambi.Listen Now
In the fall of 2017, the American Evaluation Association featured a blog about the Global Alliance’s principles-based approach to collaboration, written by the Global Alliance’s Blue Marble Evaluator, Pablo Vidueira.Read More
