Watch: CSIS Webcast on the Future of African Food Security
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is hosting a live webcast, from 9 to 10:30 am EST on April 6, discussing the future of African food security. Following the presentation, the...
View ArticleFood Sovereignty for All: La Via Campesina Honors International Day of...
On April 17, La Via Campesina will honor small food producers around the world with the International Day of Peasants’ Struggles. The day—which recognizes the 21st anniversary of the lethal...
View ArticleA Global Effort to Fight Food Waste: World Disco Soup Day on April 29
The Slow Food Youth Network (SFYN) is bringing ugly produce, funk music, and food waste education together for the world’s largest food waste awareness event on April 29: World Disco Soup Day. Chefs,...
View ArticleMillets, Sorghum, and Grain Legumes: the Smart Foods of the Future
The Smart Food Project is hoping to popularize nutrient-rich, drought-tolerant crops in an effort to diversify diets and ensure global food security. An initiative by the International Crops Research...
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CropMobster: Growing Community through Crowdsourcing
Founded as a resource to prevent food waste, the CropMobster network has grown into an online platform for farmers, food activists, and pantries to exchange resources. Designed to “ignite food system...
View ArticleCombating Drought in Jamaica with Farmer Field Schools
Since winning the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition’s YES! Competition last year, Shaneica Lester and Anne-Teresa Birthwright now run a knowledge transfer project for small-scale farmers in St....
View ArticleFood Institute Fellow Isabelle Moody: “Wasted food is also a food justice issue”
The George Washington University (GW) launched the Food Institute Student Fellowship to encourage GW students to research new aspects of the sustainable food movement and participate in local food work...
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A Seat at the Table of Austin’s New Inclusive Dinner Series
Desert Me Not: Community Dinner recently launched a dinner series in Austin, Texas, to include the people and voices often left out of discussions determining the city’s future food landscape. Working...
View ArticleThis Human Rights Attorney Believes Hunger Belongs Only in a Museum
In Buenos Aires, Argentina, human rights attorney Marcos Ezequiel Filardi built El Museo del Hambre, or the Hunger Museum, in the basement of his home. Filardi’s aim is to share the idea that hunger...
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