Transitioning to a sustainable, secure, and equitable food system requires global dialogue and action, coordination across multiple sectors that do not ordinarily work together, attention to local and global equity and cultural life-ways, and a strategic focus on systemic solutions and policy opportunities to support sustainable change.
The Global Alliance develops, commissions, and publishes research and tools to: 1) inform our individual member foundations; 2) guide Global Alliance collective action; and 3) stimulate an understanding of critical issues related to food system reform as an important step towards a much-needed global dialogue. Our publications are made available to the broader community as a contribution to thinking and discussion, and so that together we can collectively accelerate effective food systems transformation on the ground, across scales and geographies.
This publication highlights the Global Alliance for the Future of Food’s collective and individual member efforts to support agroecology as a core solution to the future of food by working together and with others to enhance agroecological science, practice, and movements.Read More
Encargado por la Global Alliance, este informe reúne voces de todo el mundo para analizar un futuro que proteja y mejore los sistemas de semillas resiliente. Un informe central escrito por los investigadores de biodiversidad agrícola Emile Frison y Toby Hodgkin, se complementa con comentarios de una variedad de diversos expertos, incluidos agricultores orgánicos, activistas comunitarios, representantes comerciales, investigadores y científicos. Esta traducción al español es una síntesis de los resultados del informe.Read More
This publication highlights the Global Alliance for the Future of Food’s collective and individual member efforts to evaluate the impacts – both positive and negative – inherent in different food systems, and make these impacts transparent so that decision-makers on farms and in governments, institutions, and businesses can make better-informed decisions that take into account the economic, environmental, and social impacts of their choices. Read More
This report by the National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO) in Mexico is one of six “exploratory studies” commissioned by the UN Environment TEEB Office and funded by the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, with the purpose of feeding the evidence base to feed into the wider initiative on TEEB for Agriculture & Food (TEEBAgriFood). These studies are meant to assess the impacts and dependencies arising from particular agricultural sectors and systems.Read More
The TEEBAgriFood ‘Scientific and Economic Foundations’ report, supported by the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, addresses the core theoretical issues and controversies underpinning the evaluation of the nexus between the agri-food sector, biodiversity and ecosystem services and externalities including human health impacts from agriculture on a global scale. It argues the need for a ‘systems thinking‘ approach, draws out issues related to health, nutrition, equity and livelihoods, presents a Framework for evaluation and describes how it can be applied, and identifies theories and pathways for transformational change.Read More
In this report, commissioned by the Global Alliance and led by Meridian Institute, expert authors synthesize peer-reviewed literature that examines the mutual impacts of food systems activities (ranging from pre-production to production, post-production, consumption, and waste) and climate change, develop 10 key messages, and document mitigation opportunities and their adaptation potential.Read More
Supported by the Global Alliance, this FAO study develops a replicable methodology to measure and place a monetary value on the impacts of food and agricultural systems on health, and concretely tests it by applying the proposed methodology to selected health conditions in the UK.Read More
IPES-Food/Global Alliance for the Future of Food publication Unravelling the Food-Health Nexus: Addressing Practices, Political Economy, and Power Relations to Build Healthier Food Systems provides a comprehensive overview of the health impacts of food systems, identifying the channels through which food systems affect human health, and how prevailing power relations and imperatives in food systems help to shape our understanding of the impacts they generate.Read More
In May 2017, the Global Alliance hosted its 2nd International Dialogue: The Future of Food in a Climate Changing World. This summary report is an overview of the dialogue, opportunities explored, and potential actions the Global Alliance and participating experts and leaders identified as potential pathways towards a more sustainable, secure and equitable future of food.Read More
In Spring 2017, the Global Alliance supported the Sequestering Carbon In Soil: Addressing The Climate Threat conference where soil carbon experts, farmers, NGO leaders, government officials, private sector leaders, philanthropists, and advocates from thirty-four countries met to explore how to advance soil carbon sequestration through agriculture and ecosystem restoration.Read More