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11th Hour Project
Works at the nexus of energy, food & agriculture, and human rights. Programs: Energy: The Project invests in organizations pursuing restrictions on fossil fuels and advancement of cleaner alternatives concurrently,...
Action Against Hunger
Action Against Hunger(1979; New York; 7500+ staff; actionagainsthunger.org) This global humanitarian organization is committed to ending world hunger based on an International Charter of Independence, Neutrality, Non-discrimination, Free and Direct Access...
Ag Innovations
Ag Innovations (1999; Sebastopol CA; 8 staff; aginnovations.org) A non-profit with the mission to "convene dynamic leadership collaborations that create innovation for a food system that realizes society’s shared best...
Alliance of Biodiversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
Alliance of Biodiversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) (2019; Rome; alliancebioversityciat.org) It works to address food systems as a whole, from agricultural production to consumer behavior;...
Aspire Food Group
Aspire Food Group (2013; Austin, Ghana; 9 management and 60 global staff; aspirefg.com) An innovative food company that works on new food solutions from insects and insect-based products; e.g. cricket...
Big Idea Ventures
Big Idea Ventures (2019; 3 staff; New York & Singapore; bigideaventures.com) The hybrid private venture firm invests in plant-based food companies and also runs a food-focused accelerator program in New...
Biovision Foundation
Biovision Foundation (1998; Zurich; 55 staff; biovision.ch) A charitable organization that works to combat hunger and poverty. It is committed to "the dissemination and application of ecological methods that sustainably...
Brown, Lester R.
Lester R. Brown (b.1934) is well-known as the founder of the Worldwatch Institute in Washington in 1974, where he served as president until 2000. Worldwatch is known for its annual...
Center for a Livable Future
Operates out of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, from the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering. It works with students, educators, researchers, policymakers, advocacy organizations and communities...
Center for Food Safety
Is a U.S. non-profit public interest and environmental advocacy organization that has been fighting the industrial food model which uses harmful food production technologies for twenty years. Instead, it promotes...
Aquaculture, Environmental Activism, Environmental Health, Environmental Legislation, Environmental Policy, Environmental Services, Food, Food Ecology, Food Studies, Food System, Food System Transformation, Genetically Engineered Crops, Organic Agriculture, Organic Food, Pesticides, Seeds, Soil Health, Sustainable Food, Sustainable Food Consumption, Sustainable Food Production, Sustainable Food System
Center on Food Security and the Environment
A research center aiming to address the most critical global issues of food security and environmental degradation. Through a focused research portfolio, the faculty members of this department are able...
Centre for International Environmental Studies
Centre for International Environmental Studies (2010; Geneva; 30 faculty and staff; graduateinstitute.ch) A research center that addresses climate change, biodiversity, food security, energy, etc. It offers PhD as well as...
CGIAR
A global partnership of international organizations focused on food security research. It is dedicated to increasing food security through its efforts to reduce rural poverty and improve human health and...
Circle of Blue
Focusing on water and issues relating to it, the organisation aims to inform the world’s most important decisions about water, food, and energy in a changing climate. It unites classic...
Committee on World Food Security
Committee on World Food Security(1974; Rome; 10 staff; fao.org/cfs) A international and intergovernmental platform for stakeholders working "to ensure food security and nutrition for all." It uses a multi-stakeholder approach...
Compassion in World Farming
Compassion in World Farming (1967, Surrey, UK; 10 staff; ciwf.com) The organization "campaigns peacefully to end all factory farming practices" to end cruel factory farming. It is "is dedicated to...
COVID-19: Potential Impact on the World’s Poorest People
COVID-19: Potential Impact on the World’s Poorest People (World Food Programme, April 2020, 13p) Currently, “821 million people regularly go to bed hungry.” Due to the economic and logistical consequences...
Creating a Sustainable Food Future: Solutions to Feed Nearly 10 Billion People by 2050
Creating a Sustainable Food Future: Solutions to Feed Nearly 10 Billion People by 2050 (World Resources Institute, July 2019, 556p; 90p Synthesis Report, Dec 2018) A Report by the World...
Food, Food Security, Food System, Sustainable Food, Sustainable Food Production, Sustainable Food System
Crop Trust
Crop Trust ( 2004; Bonn; croptrust.org) It was established by Biodiversity International on behalf of the CGIAR and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization to help support this global system...
Cuba-U.S. Agroecology Network
The Cuba-U.S Agroecology Network is a bilateral network that "connects people, institutions and movements in Cuba and the U.S. to build more ecologically resilient, socially just and economically fair farming...