Earlier this month, as a lead-up session to the UN Food Systems Summit, UN Environment Programme, Capitals Coalition and the Global Alliance for the Future of Food convened and curated: True Cost Accounting for Food Systems: Redefining Value to Transform Decision-making. The global community is only a few growing seasons away from delivering on the … Continued
Now is the moment to build our problem-solving muscle and effectively navigate a complex, unpredictable future of food together.
Guest contribution by Alice Waters, chef, author, food activist, and owner of Chez Panisse Restaurant in Berkeley, California.
Patty Fong, Program Director of Climate & Health, highlights how food systems leaders prioritize human, animal, and ecological health.
This blog reflects on facilitating three deep-dive dialogues focused on accelerating action around SDG 2: Zero Hunger.
Food is central to our daily lives. Through culture, tradition, identity, and pleasure, food has been the life force for our families, communities, and societies for millennia. Yet, at the same time, some food systems practices are generating large, unacceptable impacts on the environment and on vulnerable populations, from driving biodiversity loss to enabling unhealthy, … Continued
We are at a critical moment in history. A contested moment. A fragile moment. A moment full of anxiety, decision-making, way-finding, stock-taking, soul-searching, and needing to attend to the deep imperative to create a brighter and more beautiful future. Food systems transformation is central to this agenda given its undeniable links to climate, migration, zoonotic … Continued
In February 2020 in Amsterdam, the Global Alliance for the Future of Food brought together 45 global experts committed to accelerating true cost accounting (TCA) methods and approaches as a means to create sustainable food systems. TCA is one of our flagship focus areas at the Global Alliance. We believe it is a fundamental component … Continued
“We must recognize the remarkable intelligence and power of the seed — it perpetuates the species, preserves its diversity, ensures its resilience in the face of adversity. This is the basis of biological diversity — biological resilience is in the diversity of the genes.” Abdou Tenkouano, The West and Central Africa Council for Agricultural Research and … Continued
Pablo Vidueira, Research Director, shares his experiences and insights on Blue Marble Evaluation as the leading innovative edge for evaluation for the times we live in.
