'As farms consolidate, more and more of the wealth leaves rural communities and flows to the Cargills of the world.' -Austin Frerick

Exclusive new book excerpt from 'Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry' today on Food Tank (via Island Press).

We're so incredibly honored that @ReFED's executive director, dgunders was awarded a 'Waste Warrior' during last week's #StopFoodWasteDay event in partnership with FoodTank and Compass Group USA

How Far $100 Goes at the Grocery Store After Five Years of Food Inflation.

From beef to mayo, consumers continue to spend more to buy less.

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Tyson Foods dumped millions of pounds of toxic pollutants directly into American rivers and lakes over the last five years, threatening critical ecosystems, endangering wildlife and human health, a new investigation reveals.

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Some lovely photos from our annual 'waste warriors awards ceremony' as part of the Stop Food Waste Day event in partnership with Compass Group USA.

School meals will soon contain less salt and sugar. A must read from Linda Qiu, The New York Times.

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“Mitigating emissions while ensuring nutrition security is vital to promote both human and planetary health. We must act now to secure a sustainable future for generations to come,” Ambassador Ertharin Cousin (@ertharin), Food Systems for the Future.

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College students started a venture that has diverted glass bottles from landfills and crushed them into sand for coastal restoration efforts.

(via Cara Buckley, The New York Times)

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Our PTFI research team was joined by Ismahane Elouafi in New York. We also met Amy Goldman, heirloom plant conservationist. This collaboration to unlock and share cutting-edge knowledge about what we eat has exciting implications for global nutrition & health.
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In a panel discussion ‘Global integration on PTFI tools & data’ at The Rockefeller Foundation, Food and Agriculture Organization’s Bridget Holmes highlighted the need for updated country-level food composition data & capacity building to ensure this data can be analyzed & used for better nutrition policies & programmes

So happy to be back at Tufts Nutrition moderating today in Boston at their #FoodIsMedicine Summit!

We were honored to join @Foodtank last night for #StopFoodWasteDay and be celebrated as a Food Waste Warrior! 💪🥬 Our Executive Director, Christine shared the important role of compost and community in tackling food waste and our climate crisis. 🪱 🤎

#StopFoodWasteDay , sponsored by FoodTank, Compass Group USA and Wheyward Spirit showcased #foodwaste experts, local NYC waste warriors, and engaging conversations on advancing this important effort. NYCP was honored to be recognized as a Food Waste Warrior.

“I think we’ve come together on the most exciting scientific innovation in food in decades.” -John de la Parra, Rockefeller Foundation

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“The biggest workforce we need to develop is a community workforce around food.” Dr. Daphne Miller, UC Berkeley

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“What is needed to create trans-disciplinary efforts is a common language.” -Jackie Bertoldo, American Heart Association and Food EDU

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“Planetary health is an opportunity to talk common languages…at a planetary scale.” -Carlos Faerron Guzmán, Planetary Health Alliance

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“Food is currently the primary driver of poor health.” -Fabrice DeClerck, Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT

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“Food EDU it becomes a way where all people that work in different areas—nutrition, chemists, farmers, and mothers—can use it to translate information so that it is useful.” -Natalia Vazquez Manjarrez, INCMNSZ

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“Educational opportunities need to correspond to the breakthroughs in science.” -Kevin Cody, American Heart Association and Food EDU

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