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
The economic reality in which our food system operates has a significant impact on how food and agriculture policy and practice affects pressing issues like climate change, biodiversity, soil, food security, and public health. This brochure outlines work the Global Alliance and its members are doing to advance true cost accounting (TCA) efforts to make visible the full costs of food.Read More
Global Alliance Executive Director, Ruth Richardson, is participating in the international expert jury for the Future Policy Award 2018, hosted by World
Future Council, FAO, and IFOAM-Organics International. The Award will celebrate the world’s best policies scaling up agroecology. A shortlist of the winning policies will be published in early September, with the winners being announced and celebrated in October 2018.Read More
The Global Alliance has launched an initiative which aims to compile diverse evidence about the positive health benefits and impacts of food systems, identify success stories that demonstrate how food systems can be managed for health, and highlight policies that promote health. Responses to the Call for Proposal are due 27 July 2018.Read More
New Delhi, INDIA – June 4, 2018: A new report released today offers a ground-breaking platform to evaluate the real costs and benefits—including environmental, health, and social impacts—of our agriculture and food systems. This TEEBAgriFood Scientific and Economic Foundations Report, supported by the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, provides the basis for a major paradigm shift in how we view and manage our agriculture and food systems, demonstrating how to evaluate not just the visible but also the hidden costs and benefits.Read More
The Global Alliance is pleased to announce that Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives has joined our alliance of over 20 foundations working together and with others towards healthy, equitable, renewable, resilient, and culturally diverse food and agriculture systems shaped by people, communities, and their institutions.Read More
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
8 January 2018
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.Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
