Lana Chehabeddine

Lana Chehabeddine is a Research and Communications Intern with Food Tank. She is a recent graduate from Oregon Health and Science University’s MSc program in Food Systems and Society, where she focused her thesis on the relationship between the nationwide empathy deficit and the tolerance for structural injustice within the US food system. Lana has a background in nutrition, art, and marketing. She is a Lebanese-American, plant-based home cook, who aspires to write and illustrate children’s books on the combined topic of food and social justice

agroforestry

New Study Reveals How Agroforestry May Improve Planetary Health

A new study reports that agroforestry—a method integrating trees with crops and livestock—is linked with more benefits for human and planetary health than previously thought. The study, conducted by a team of 21 researchers from World Agroforestry (ICRAF) and London’s School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, reveals agroforestry’s impacts on food and nutrition security in sub-Saharan Africa.

February 26, 2020