In 2013, Danielle Nierenberg co-founded Food Tank, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization focused on building a global community for safe, healthy, nourished eaters. Food Tank is a global convener, research organization, and non-biased creator of original research impacting the food system. Food Tank’s Summits, held across the United States and expanding internationally in 2017, have hosted hundreds of speakers and sold-out audiences of thousands of participants, with hundreds of thousands joining via livestream reaching millions across social media. The Summits are one of the most important forums bringing together all sides of food issues for critical discussion partnered with major universities and moderated by major food journalists.
The Staple Food Revolution: Bringing Beans and Grains to Local Markets
By Danielle Nierenberg, Emily Payne, Food Tank
After a couple of years as growers, Jaeger and Ajamian realized that they couldn’t build a local food system without a local processing facility, and they opened Shagbark in a former carpet warehouse in 2010. Now, they say that with each passing year at Shagbark, they find more and more reasons why local and regional processing facilities for staple foods are important.
At Niman Ranch, “We’re Doing Something Special” Raising Pigs Humanely
By Danielle Nierenberg, Food Tank
On “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg,” Paul Willis, founder of Niman Ranch Pork Company, and Elle Gadient, intern at Niman Ranch, talk about their love for humanely treated, free-range pigs and the farmers that raise them.
On International Day, Indigenous Peoples Preserve Biodiversity
By Danielle Nierenberg, Food Tank
This International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, August 9, is an opportunity to celebrate the ecological and cultural value of indigenous foodways.
Going Forward By Going Back: An Excerpt from Nourished Planet
By Danielle Nierenberg, Food Tank
The organization’s Ark of Taste initiative is cataloging indigenous species of fruits and vegetables all over the world. And every 2 years, Slow Food brings members together to celebrate Terra Madre, or Mother Earth, at Salone del Gusto in Turin, Italy.
The True Cost of Food: An Excerpt from Nourished Planet
By Sarah Axe, Danielle Nierenberg, Food Tank
A method being applied more widely in the food system today is an economic model called true cost accounting, which identifies and quantifies the total cost of food and agricultural production depending on the type of farming system.
Letters to a Young Farmer
By Danielle Nierenberg, Food Tank
Today, Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture released Letters to a Young Farmer, a book which compiles insight from some of the most influential farmers, writers, and leaders in the food system in an anthology of essays and letters.
Crops of the past and future
By Danielle Nierenberg, Maia Reed, Food Tank
Developing perennial varieties of grains, legumes, and vegetables can help save precious soil.
14 Reasons to Be Hopeful About the Future of Food
By Danielle Nierenberg, Food Tank
In sub-Saharan Africa, young people are going to school to learn about sustainable farming. In Brazil, smallholder farmers are growing fresh produce for public school lunches. A city in Sweden is working to make all of its food organic. And in the United States and Australia, farmers markets have never been more popular.