Thanks to a huge international community effort over the past few years, food systems are firmly on the global climate agenda. Ahead of the Biodiversity COP in October and COP29 later this year, there’s an opportunity to build momentum to ensure food systems transformation is integrated into national biodiversity and climate targets. Global Alliance Executive … Continued
Climate finance is top of the agenda at this year’s UN climate conference. Governments are expected to agree on a new long-term climate finance package to deal with worsening biodiversity collapse and the climate crisis. Phasing out fossil fuels also requires funding the transition away from industrial, fossil-fuel based food systems to agroecology and regenerative … Continued
For decades, the pesticide Roundup’s key ingredient glyphosate has caused immense harm to farmers and homeowners. Despite the growing evidence bank that links the pesticide to cancer and a host of other illnesses, Bayer, the latest corporate owner of Roundup, has launched a PR blitz to promote the pesticide. In an article for Environmental Health … Continued
Existing narrow views of what constitutes ‘evidence’ exclude critical ways of producing and facilitating knowledge exchange from diverse actors including Indigenous Peoples and food producers. We underscore the importance of a diversity of knowledge and knowledge-sharing approaches to deepen research, build evidence, and ensure more holistic outcomes in a comment piece in the Nature Food … Continued
In an essay for the the New York Times, writer Joe Fassler pulls back the curtain on cultivated meat. Fake meat is being sold as a golden solution which would allow us to continue eating meat without the climate and ethical implications. But after almost a decade and billions of dollars of investment, there’s next … Continued
** This article was originally published in See Change Magazine on 2 November 2021 ** The Common Market, based in Philadelphia and operating in the Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, and Texas, is a food distributor that plays a familiar role: stocking public and private institutions like schools, government agencies, and grocery stores with fruits, vegetables, meat, and … Continued
In May 2015 the Global Alliance for the Future of Food hosted its first International Dialogue, bringing together over 150 key stakeholders from across sectors to discuss and identify pathways towards a more sustainable, secure and equitable future of food. We invited esteemed author and activist Raj Patel to distill the conversation and respond to … Continued
