Dear Naresh,
I just want to give you a quick update!
A week from today, Ellen Gustafson and I will launch Food Tank: The Food
Think Tank. We are both excited (and a little nervous!).
Think Tank. We are both excited (and a little nervous!).
There’s no doubt that the food system is broken. More than 1
billion people are overweight or obese, nearly 1 billion people go to
bed hungry every night, and at least 2 billion people suffer from
micronutrient deficiencies.
We can find ways to solve these problems, though. Solutions are
out there--in fields, in kitchens, and in board rooms all over the
world. And you are a big part of those solutions.
If we start now, there is an opportunity to develop a better
vision for the global food system. We need to change the conversation
and find ways to make food production—and
consumption—more economically, environmentally, and socially just and
sustainable.
Food Tank's goal is to be a clearing house and community to
inform, share, and scale up innovations that are helping alleviate
hunger and poverty while also protecting the environment. Our goal is
to offer original research, share stories of success and impact, and
propose innovative solutions of what's working on the ground.
We are proud of how we've been pushing this message in major
media. You can check out some of our recent news clips over the last
week, including Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Voice of America, the Wall Street Journal, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Vancouver Sun, the Santa Fe New Mexican, the Virginian Pilot, Business Day (South Africa), Earth Island Journal, and many, many more.
Throughout 2013 Food Tank will be actively traveling and
touring--listening to you talk about the innovations that are working
in your own communities. We want to involve you in this process as much
as possible. For those of you we can't visit in person, we are looking
for guest posts on our site. Share your stories with us!
We will also be organizing several events this year. At each
event we plan to bring together major local and regional
stakeholders--farmers, businesses, workers, non-profits, local
activists, academics, policy-makers, industry, journalists, community
organizations, the funding and donor communities, and many others--for
frank and open discussion about the food system. We hope to see you
there!
Please let us know if you'd like to be involved or if you have suggestions for where we should visit by emailing me at danielle@foodtank.org.
And connect with us now on social media--Food Tank is already live on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and YouTube.
Thank you again for wanting to be part of Food Tank!
Onward!
Onward!
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