FORMER INITIATIVE
Working along the agricultural supply chain to catalyze a uniquely African green revolution
Food Africa
Nov 28 2017
World Wildlife Fund and the American Hotel and Lodging Association, with support from The Rockefeller Foundation, created this toolkit as a challenge to the industry to: PREVENT food waste from …
Food
Nov 17 2017
Wasted food and its effects on people, the environment, and the economy have become a major topic of
national conversation, and for good reason. When we waste food, we also waste …
Food
Nov 13 2017
The Zero Waste Design Guidelines grew from a question posed by Clare Miflin, architect at Kiss + Cathcart, Architects. While moderating an Urban Green panel on organics collection, she asked, …
Food
Nov 13 2017
Perspective
In late September, the world gathered in New York for the 72nd United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). Although most attention focused on urgent crises around the world, there were also …
Nov 10 2017
Perspective
Urbanization and rising middle-class incomes across Africa mean that half of Africa’s food now sells in cities – and, increasingly, in supermarkets. Significant local and foreign investment in food manufacturing …
Oct 25 2017
Perspective
A year or so ago, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), with support from The Rockefeller Foundation, set out to undertake first-of-its-kind research to better understand wasted food in cities. …
Oct 20 2017
Speeches
As delivered on Thursday, October 19, 2017 at Des Moines, Iowa. Thank you, Ken. I don’t know what to say after that extraordinary introduction, other than while we do all have …
Sep 22 2017
Perspective
This week, Heads of States gather in New York City at the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to take stock on progress towards the Sustainable Development …
Sep 20 2017
In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. SDG 12 seeks to …
Food