All through this 12 months, whether or not I’ve discovered myself in a number of the world’s largest cities or small farming communities in Ethiopia and Guatemala, one factor is obvious: We obtain significant meals system transformation one particular person at a time.
The sort of systemic transformation we have to see is made doable by significant relationships between folks, the place we make choices with different folks’s well-being in thoughts. It’s made doable by broad societal collaboration between people, the place we are able to break down silos and share data.
That is definitely true right here at Meals Tank! As a corporation powered by grassroots help from members across the globe, all the things we do is made doable by you.
THANK YOU, from the underside of my coronary heart, to the neighborhood of members who’ve helped us uplift meals system options all 12 months lengthy. In case you’re not but a member, I hope you’ll contemplate becoming a member of us by going to foodtank.com/join. Right here’s a style of what we’ve been in a position to do over the previous 12 months due to our international household of members:
In 2025, Meals Tank has celebrated the intersection of meals and the humanities in main methods. Throughout Summits on the Sundance Movie Competition in Park Metropolis, UT, and SXSW in Austin, TX, inventive of us like cooks, filmmakers, farmers, advocates, and extra convened to shine a highlight on the facility of environmental storytelling.
And at Local weather Week NYC, every of our unprecedented 15 packed-house Summits started with a efficiency from Broadway stars—which injected much-needed magnificence and hope into pressing discussions of local weather motion! We additionally staged a workshop studying of “Catalyst Espresso,” an authentic musical about labor organizing within the meals service business.
We have been honored to convey success tales each to food-focused occasions—together with Cease Meals Waste Day, the annual Nationwide Meals is Medication Summit, and by internet hosting the official North America World Meals Day celebration—and to discussions throughout disciplines. At symposiums world wide specializing in wellness, social justice, authorized research, and extra, we showcased how meals techniques can join the dots between surprising and complicated matters.
We additionally continued bringing meals coverage conversations on to the locations they matter most. In Could, we headed to Washington, D.C., for a Capitol Hill luncheon occasion on how Meals is Medication can rework healthcare, convened the inaugural Meals and Agriculture Coverage Summit in October, and returned simply yesterday in the past for a luncheon exploring ultra-processed meals.
On the worldwide scale, Meals Tank introduced nuanced discussions of meals techniques and coverage to the U.Okay. for London Local weather Motion Week, to Ethiopia for the UN Meals Techniques Summit Stocktake, and to Brazil for COP30, the landmark UN Local weather Change Convention. There, we organized a sturdy lineup of programming to have interaction agricultural ministers, negotiators, farmers, local weather journalists, civil society and enterprise leaders, funders, and extra to make sure that these decision-makers acknowledge the significance of meals and agriculture motion.
As well as, we’ve additionally continued to publish every day articles, ship this e-newsletter straight to your inbox, and launch weekly episodes of our podcast “Meals Discuss with Dani Nierenberg.”
There isn’t a meals system with out the person farmers, ranchers, farmworkers, meals processors, manufacturing facility staff, packagers, truck drivers, seed savers, cooks, enterprise homeowners, meals justice advocates, and numerous different hardworking, passionate of us up and down the meals chain. It’s additionally no exaggeration to say that Meals Tank wouldn’t be Meals Tank with out every Meals Tanker such as you!
Meals Tank members obtain unique entry to Meals Tank Summits, even when they’re bought out to the general public; invites to particular digital members-only discussions with meals system luminaries; and different tokens of our appreciation all year long. Your help additionally signifies that we are able to proceed to make most of our programming fully free to attend and livestream these occasions for our international viewers. I hope you’ll take a second to take a look at our accessible membership choices HERE to launch or increase your help.
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