Stories
Find out how the CLF is engaged in positive food systems change.
Food Policy & Governance, Food Animal Production, Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries
Support for Iowa Moratorium on Hog Confinement Operations
A majority of Iowans want greater oversight over the industrial swine industry.
Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries, Reducing Food Waste, Food System Change in Baltimore
Urban Food Waste Interventions: Where To Go Next
How much do we really know about the effectiveness of food waste interventions?
Food Policy & Governance, Food Animal Production, Food Equity
True Cost Accounting: Can We Put a Price Tag on Extraction and Exploitation?
Frameworks for quantifying the impact of the current food system models.
Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries, Food Systems & Climate Change, Reducing Food Waste
Trending at COP25: Promising Movement on Food Systems
The UN climate conference is finally acknowledging the connection between food systems, climate change, and health.
Food Policy & Governance, Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries, Food Equity
What do food service management companies think consumers care about?
Why do companies like Aramark and Sodexo advertise with words like “sustainable” and “local?”
Seafood & the Food System, Reducing Food Waste, Food Animal Production
Atlantic Salmon in the Norwegian Fjords
With more than a thousand fjords, Norway is the world’s leading producer of farm-raised Atlantic salmon. The CLF team is investigating resource use in the country's aquaculture operations.
Seafood & the Food System, Reducing Food Waste, Food Animal Production
Pangasius Farming on the Mekong River
The research team aims to help Pangasius farmers become more energy- and water-efficient, reduce waste and increase profits and stewardship.
Food Policy & Governance
Food Councils Connect People, Share Knowledge, Empower Change
Successes in food policy work can make a big difference, from empowering urban farmers to putting food recovery plans into action. But policy work can lack glitz. And when the successes happen, they’re often a long time in materializing.
Food System Change in Baltimore
Cafeteria Managers Dive Deep into Food Systems Thinking
CLF’s high school curriculum, FoodSpan, helped cafeteria managers get a chance to step back and think about food systems as a whole.
Food Equity, Strengthening Food System Resilience, Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries
CLF’s 9th Dodge Lecturer Vandana Shiva: Sustainable Local Food is Imperative
Dr. Shiva discussed the importance of local food sovereignty – local control of food production, and thus local control of soil health and nutrition.