Our Newsletters and Announcements provide a high-level overview of our current initiatives and emerging work and are an invitation to stay connected.
The Global Alliance for the Future of Food is hosting its 2nd International Dialogue in May 2017 in Paris, France. If we as a global community are going to meet our Paris commitments and realize a climate- and food-positive future, we must navigate potential obstacles and opportunities and weigh associated environmental, economic, social and cultural implications, together.Read More
Greetings, and welcome to our inaugural newsletter. We’ve initiated this mail-out to update our community of partners and stakeholders on a semi-regular basis on the activities of the Global Alliance for the Future of Food.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
June 2018
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
On 3-5 April 2018, the FAO will host its 2nd International Symposium on Agroecology in Rome. To support an effective and efficient transition towards agroecology, the AgroEcology Fund, McKnight Foundation, and the Global Alliance for the Future of Food are convening donors at two complementary events, where we will explore opportunities to coordinate efforts, to identify shared principles, and to collaborate.Read More
Commissioned by the Global Alliance and led by the Meridian Institute, the “Climate Change & Food Systems: Assessing Impacts and Opportunities” report argues that approaching climate mitigation and adaptation in the context of food systems broadens the range of opportunities to achieve mitigation and adaptation goals, and facilitates the consideration of systems-level effects and interactions.Read More
The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) and Global Alliance for the Future of Food will launch a new report, Unravelling the Food-Health Nexus: Addressing Practices, Political Economy, and Power Relations to Build Healthier Food Systems at a side event at the 44th meeting of the Committee on Food Security on 9 October 2017.Read More
Global Alliance for the Future of Food Chair and Senior Fellow at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Guillermo Castilleja, has been honoured with the Distinguished Alumni Award by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES).Read More
28 September 2016
The Global Alliance for the Future of Food will be attending the Global Consultation on Farmers’ Rights hosted by the Government of Indonesia and co-sponsored by the Government of Norway from 27-30 September in order to share the findings of its latest publication The Future of Food: Seeds of Resilience, A Compendium of Perspectives on Agricultural Biodiversity from Around the World.Read More
3 September 2016
The Global Alliance for the Future of Food has launched The Future of Food: Seeds of Resilience, A Compendium of Perspectives on Agricultural Biodiversity from Around the World at the IUCN World Conservation Congress today.Read More
