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The Global Alliance and Biovision Foundation for Ecological Development have released a report that addresses the significant systemic transformation needed for a future of food that is resilient, renewable, healthy, equitable, diverse, and interconnected. Beacons of Hope: Accelerating Transformations to Sustainable Food Systems examines the transformation process of 21 global initiatives to better understand how we can accelerate their positive impacts.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

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

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

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

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

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

In June 2018, the TEEBAgriFood Scientific and Economic Foundations Report was launched prior to World Environment Day in New Delhi, India. The intellectual and theoretical foundations for the TEEBAgriFood evaluation framework are developed in this report. And with this framework, we have an important opportunity to test the power and potential of true cost accounting across food and agriculture systems.Read More

The Global Alliance for the Future of Food is pleased to announce that both The Rockefeller Foundation and Crown Family Philanthropies have joined our alliance of over 20 philanthropic foundations working together and with others to transform global food systems now and for future generations.Read More