Food for Humanity Initiative
Food for Humanity Initiative Strategy Launch - February 4th
Coming soon - the Food for Humanity Initiative (F4Hi) Strategy Launch Webinar! Join us for an exciting online event where we will unveil our new strategy for 2025-2023.
Our team has been working tirelessly to create innovative solutions for food systems, climate change, environmental sustainability, optimal diets, and nutrition outcomes, and we can't wait to share them with you. This webinar is your chance to learn more about our mission, ask questions, and get involved in this important cause.
Tuesday, February 4th at 1pm - JOIN HERE
New From The F4Hi
153 winners of Nobel and World Food prizes seek new ways to grow food to meet surging global need
Cynthia Rosenzweig, a climate research scientist at NASA who won the World Food Prize in 2022, said in an interview that researchers are already making progress toward breakthroughs, but their work needs to be turbocharged with more funding and emphasis from world leaders.
Jess Fanzo featured on the Cool It Down podcast
Check out Jess Fanzo on the Cool It Down podcast, discussing the global challenges of food security, the link between dietary choices and climate change, and the role of governments in promoting healthier food systems.
The ‘really sticky’ situation facing the public health establishment: RFK Jr.
“It’s a reframing that’s long been needed,” said Sandra Albrecht, an epidemiology professor at Columbia University, of Kennedy’s focus on the causes of disease, adding that public health officials “will need to work with the administration” despite Kennedy’s baggage.
“Our diets are significant factors in noncommunicable diseases or chronic diseases,” Jessica Fanzo, climate professor and director of the Food for Humanity Initiative at Columbia University, said. “If it were me, I, too, would ambitiously want to go after the food system.”
“Climate change and the rampant extreme events we are grappling with are a reckoning. We are realizing we don’t have a choice, and for some living in resource-constrained settings, the choice is even more limited. We have to change the way we grow food, how we distribute it, and how we consume it. We have to consider equity issues across food systems. We have to hold our governments and the range of private sector actors accountable to assist in this transition. We can’t leave it to eaters to fend for themselves when the cards are often stacked against them.” – Jessica Fanzo, Professor of Climate and Director of the Food for Humanity Initiative, Columbia Climate School