Food Systems

The global agricultural industry totals $8 trillion annually. Food and food services account for 10 percent of consumer spending worldwide, with 866 million employed in the sector in 2018. For all the economic growth reflected in these...

The pandemic’s closure of group dining programs, combined with the overnight spike and continuing surge in need for home-delivered meals for seniors, shined a light on the consequences of continued under-investments in our nation’s food...

With hotels and schools closed, farmers are destroying millions of pounds of produce they can’t sell. Despite this waste, the number of people with food insecurity could rise from 130 million to nearly 300 million due to COVID-19. This...

The worldwide pandemic and economic collapse caused by the novel coronavirus is a global tragedy that will change the way we think about many things, including how food arrives (or doesn’t arrive) on our plates. We are part of an unplanned...

.bubble-images, .bubble-images img { border-radius: 50%; } Feeding the Nation During COVID-19: Food, Hope, and Recovery Tuesday, April 21, 2020 | 8 am PT The United States is facing an unprecedented food security crisis. As unemployment has...

COVID-19 Food Response and Policy Inventory summarizes actions being taken by restaurants, food retailers, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies WASHINGTON, April 15, 2020 – Food insecurity is a growing threat to public health as...

In a nation as fortunate as the United States, everyone should have the food they need to thrive. Today in America, one in nine households (11.1 percent) are food insecure. This means that 37.2 million Americans, including 11.2 million...

Food stands at the nexus of water, land, energy, and labor. With the dynamic socioeconomic changes that Asia is undergoing, it is not surprising that both diet and nutrition are being affected in ways not previously experienced. That food...

Tell me if you’ve heard this one before. There was once a wise old rabbi. One day, a troublemaker arrived in town. Facing the rabbi, he held a bird behind his back. “If you are indeed so wise, Rabbi,” he said, “tell me if the bird I’m...