Food Tank

Some individuals struggle to find enough to eat, while others consume excessive amounts. The solution to this issue begins with our collective efforts. Food Tank is dedicated to the 7 billion people who rely on food daily. Our mission is to provide solutions and environmentally friendly methods to combat hunger, obesity, and poverty by fostering a network that connects and shares vital information. Food Tank serves as a platform for farmers, producers, policymakers, government officials, researchers, academics, journalists, and donors to work together in developing sustainable solutions to address our most urgent social and environmental challenges.

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Where Culture Meets Resistance: Celebrating the Work of Black Women Chefs

1 week ago | foodtank.com | Elena Seeley

On April 17, Food Tank is partnering with Spelman College for the 2025 Food Justice Summit, “Stirring up Home: Black Women Chefs Reframing Cultural Food Traditions as Resistance and Reclamation Work.”The event will center Black women changemakers of global and local food systems who are coming together in dialogue with students, faculty, staff, and the larger Atlanta community.
With Humanitarian Funding at an 'Unprecedented Crisis,' Hard-Won Food Solutions Are Disappearing

1 week ago | foodtank.com | Danielle Nierenberg

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tank’s newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. To make sure it lands straight in your inbox and to be among the first to receive it, subscribe now by clicking here. Last year, 343 million people were experiencing acute food insecurity, according to the World Food Programme (WFP). That’s 10 percent higher than in 2023.
Pollinators Are More Diverse than We Think-And Face Challenges We Aren’t Fully Addressing

2 weeks ago | foodtank.com | Danielle Nierenberg

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tank’s newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. To make sure it lands straight in your inbox and to be among the first to receive it, subscribe now by clicking here. If you close your eyes for a moment and I say pollinators, what comes to mind? Maybe you hear the buzzing of honeybees or bumblebees, or you picture the light flapping of monarch butterfly wings.
Against the Grain: How Targeting Women with Climate-Smart Innovations Amplifies Resilience

3 weeks ago | foodtank.com | Elena Seeley

If you look around a Senegalese village, you will see connection. Farmers under a mango tree drinking the afternoon pot of attaya (tea). A cluster of children from all corners of the community magnetically gathering around a soccer ball like Mecca and the idea that they could be the next Sadio Mané.
The Future of Food Is Zero Waste-Are We Ready?

3 weeks ago | foodtank.com | Elena Seeley

Do you want more stories like this to land straight in your inbox? Subscribe to Food Tank’s newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays, by clicking here. Food waste is a “a big problem with big numbers behind it,” says Dana Gunders, President of ReFED. The U.N. Environment Programme estimates that 1 billion meals go to waste every day, contributing to at least 8-10 percent of greenhouse gas emissions globally. And in the U.S. alone, uneaten food equates to roughly US$380 billion.
This Family Is Reviving Small-Scale, Humane Hog Farming

3 weeks ago | foodtank.com | Emily Payne |climate. Based

Larry Banowetz has raised pigs on his family farm in eastern Iowa for 45 years. But the hog industry, or pork industry as it’s now referred to as, has changed dramatically over that time. Larry says that in the United States, it is almost impossible to have a profitable small business as an independent pork producer. “On the commercial market, you just kept losing outlets to sell your pigs,” says Larry.
The Power of Local Knowledge: ANAPRI’s Vision for African-Led Food Systems Solutions

4 weeks ago | foodtank.com | Elena Seeley

The Africa Network of Agricultural Policy Research Institutes (ANAPRI) is working to transform the African continent’s agriculture sector through capacity building, research development, and the fostering of collaboration. ANAPRI “was born out of the need to share knowledge, share data, and also to be able to learn lessons from the different institutions that are involved in policy research in Africa,” Antony Chapoto, ANAPRI’s Executive Director, tells Food Tank.
U.N. Report Calls for Climate Tech for Food System Resilience – Food Tank

1 month ago | foodtank.com | Zea Levine

Climate technologies can transform agrifood systems, reduce hunger, cut emissions, and build resilience in vulnerable communities.
With 80+ Speakers, Join Us in Bringing Food to the Forefront of Big Conversations at SXSW

1 month ago | foodtank.com | Danielle Nierenberg

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tank’s newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. To make sure it lands straight in your inbox and to be among the first to receive it, subscribe now by clicking here. For decades—certainly for most of my career—discussions about food and agriculture systems have been pushed to the sidelines. Many of us have had to fight, over and over and over again, to get folks in power to take food and agriculture seriously. But that’s changing now.
In Parched Zimbabwe, Small-Scale Farmers Turn to Traditional Crops

1 month ago | foodtank.com | Andrew Mambondiyani

Zimbabwe is in the midst of a crippling El Niño-induced drought—the worst in more than 40 years. It has wiped out most of last year’s rain-fed crops, particularly the now staple crop, maize. With up to 70 percent of Zimbabwe’s population surviving on rural economic activities—mostly rain-fed crop farming—recurring droughts are devastating to the country. The drought has left more than 7 million people without enough food.