Ford Foundation Bets on Slow Food Movement to Help Global Poor
Release Date:
01/23/2015
Ford's grants help Slow Food USA promote food and economic security in poor rural an urban households in South and Latin America.
Food Systems
MasterCard Foundation Launches $50 Million Fund to Help Smallholder Farmers in Africa
Release Date:
01/21/2015
$15 million will support the development of new ideas, and $35 million wil help scale promising ideas or pilots.
From India to Africa: A Quest to Learn about Reducing Food Loss
Release Date:
01/15/2015
Africa Region Associate Director, C.D. Glin examines how the Rockefeller Foundation is addressing food loss worldwide.
New Report Offers Framework to Analyze Effects of Potential Changes to the US Food System
Release Date:
01/14/2015
The JPB Foundation-funded study examines the relationship between health, environment, society and the economy.
Weinberg Foundation Names New Position
Release Date:
12/18/2014
Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation has promoted Sheryl Goldstein to Managing Director, Programs and Grants.
Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund Providing Access to Better Food in Low-Income Neighborhoods
Release Date:
12/02/2014
The foundation supports Wholesome Wave's Fruit and Vegetable Prescription Program
MasterCard Foundation Funding $15.5 Million Program to Assist Small Farmers in Africa
Release Date:
11/07/2014
The program will help improve productivity for 730,000 farmers in Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania.
Tiffany & Co. Foundation Among Funders of Breakthrough Fisheries Management Research
Release Date:
10/27/2014
Stricter fisheries management can combat the effects of climate change.
Noyes Foundation's Zigbi Selected as Loeb Fellow
Release Date:
07/17/2014
Kolu Zigbi, program director for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems and the Eat for Health initiative at the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, has been named one of 10 2014-15 Loeb Fellows at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.
City's Green Cart Initiative Judged An "Extraordinary Success"
Release Date:
07/13/2014
Evaluators are calling an "extraordinary success" an initiative launched in NYC in 2008, with support from the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, to make more fresh fruits and vegetables available in low-income neighborhoods.
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