Food Access

126 Food and Agriculture Organizations to Watch in 2026

Contributing authors: Jessica Levy and Elena Seeley, with support from Katherine Albertson, Amy Hauer, and Anna Poe 2025 was a year marked by immense uncertainty. Cuts to nutrition assistance and climate smart agriculture programs in the United States, the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, and declining Official Development…

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Food Tank’s Weekly News Roundup: World Bank Biodiversity Warnings, U.S. Regenerative Farm Funding, and After-School Nutrition Gaps

This week’s roundup looks at biodiversity risks, farm funding, pesticide safety, and why millions of children still miss out on after-school meals.

With Books for Kids and Adults, We Can Read Our Way to a Stronger Food System

These books can help us all plant the seeds of change in our own communities and build stronger food and agriculture systems!

Growing Forward: Insights for Building Better Food and Agriculture Systems

From Checkout to Checkup: Reimagining the Role of the Grocery Aisle in Public Health

Instacart examines how online grocery access, modernized food assistance programs, and food as medicine initiatives can improve nutrition security and public health across the United States.

Local Corner Store Expands D.C. Food Access

Stanton Supermarket in D.C.’s Ward 8 expanded its produce section to bring fresh food closer to local families.

Growing Forward: Insights for Building Better Food and Agriculture Systems

Interrupting the Burden of Chronic Disease

The burden of chronic diseases is rising across the U.S. How do we interrupt the trend?

Food Tank’s Weekly News Roundup

Food Tank’s Weekly News Roundup: COP30 in Brazil, UNHCR Reports on Climate Displacement, and China Resumes U.S. Soybean Imports

From COP30’s climate discussions to new funding for farmers and East Africa’s agroecology commitments, this week marks a turning point for food and climate action.

Growing Forward: Insights for Building Better Food and Agriculture Systems

Putting Food and Farming at the Center of Climate Action: Q&A with Anna Lappé

Food and agriculture systems are increasingly on climate negotiators’ and policy makers’ radar. At COP30, how do we turn that into action?

Growing Forward: Insights for Building Better Food and Agriculture Systems

Doing the Right Thing Is Good Business: Q&A with Nishant Roy

“Hunger is not unsolvable,” says Chobani’s Nishant Roy, and businesses have a role to play in creating a world free from food insecurity.

A Hidden Crisis: The Growing Threat of Food Insecurity Among Older Adults

Citymeals on Wheels reveals that nearly half of older New Yorkers surveyed experienced food insecurity in the past year.

USDA Ends Key Food Security Report, Leaving Advocates in the Dark

After three decades, the USDA has canceled its Household Food Security report, one of the most reliable measures of hunger in America.

Op-Ed | Freedom to Choose What to Eat—and the Power to Build a Better Food Future

Science shows we have the tools to feed a growing population without destroying the planet.

Growing Forward: Insights for Building Better Food and Agriculture Systems

Food, Conflict, and the Weaponization of Food

Starvation kills slowly, demoralizes populations, and erodes cultures.

Let’s Work Hand-In-Hand for a Better Future on World Food Day

Join us this World Food Day 2025 to explore powerful solutions to fight hunger, promote healthy diets, and build a sustainable food future—because together, we can nourish the world.

Growing Forward: Insights for Building Better Food and Agriculture Systems

The Promise of Urban Agroecology to Enhance Food and Nutrition Security in the 21st Century

Teaching communities about urban agroecology is about more than farming. “We are educating people for sustainability in the 21st century.”

Leaders at Climate Week NYC explore how food can be a tool for health, equity, and community resilience.

Food Is Medicine Requires Systemic Changes: “It’s No One Discipline’s Job to Solve Food Insecurity”

Amid rising food insecurity and cuts to federal nutrition programs, leaders at Climate Week NYC explore how food can be a tool for health, equity, and community resilience.

Regenerative school meals can nourish children, support farmers, and fight climate change—but they urgently need investment.

School Meals Can Nourish Children—and Regenerate the Food System

Regenerative school meals can nourish children, support farmers, and fight climate change—but they urgently need investment, panelists say at Climate Week NYC 2025.

All solutions—from AI to school meals to on-farm tech—must be created alongside those working on the ground, panelists said during Climate Week NYC.

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Cross-Sector Solutions To Global Hunger: “Every Season We Waste Is a Season Where Someone Is Going Hungry”

All solutions—from AI to school meals to on-farm tech—must be created alongside those working on the ground, panelists said during Climate Week NYC.

Growing Forward: Insights for Building Better Food and Agriculture Systems

Putting Power in the Hands of the People: Q&A with Karen Washington

As lawmakers ignore the toll that policies are taking on the most vulnerable, farmer and activist Karen Washington says it’s time for communities to look inward and organize.

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Exploring Solutions for a Hotter, Hungrier World at Climate Week

Chefs, AI experts, philanthropies, and food advocates are uniting to explore food systems resilience at Climate Week NYC.

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