Nourished Planet

1. Front Matter

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2. Food for All

   • Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition, Danielle Nierenberg

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3. Food for Sustainable Growth

   • Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition, Danielle Nierenberg

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4. Food for Health

   • Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition, Danielle Nierenberg

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5. Food for Culture

   • Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition, Danielle Nierenberg

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6. Back Matter

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Mangos from India, pasta from Italy, coffee from Colombia: Every day, we are nourished by a global food system that relies on our planet remaining verdant and productive. But current practices are undermining both human and environmental health, resulting in the paradoxes of obesity paired with malnutrition, crops used for animal feed and biofuels while people go hungry, and more than thirty percent of food being wasted when it could feed the 795 million malnourished worldwide.

In Nourished Planet, the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition offers a global plan for feeding ourselves sustainably. Drawing on the diverse experiences of renowned international experts, the book offers a truly planetary perspective. Essays and interviews showcase Hans Herren, Vandana Shiva, Alexander Mueller, and Pavan Suhkdev, among many others. 

Together, these experts plot a map towards food for all, food for sustainable growth, food for health, and food for culture. With these ingredients, we can nourish our planet and ourselves.

• Food
• Sustainability
• Barriers to Food Access
• Food for Health
• Food for Culture

• Food Tank, New Orleans, USA

  Danielle Nierenberg

• Marco Moro, Direttore Editoriale, BCFN Foundation, Milano, Italy

  Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition

Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition
The Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Foundation (BCFN Foundation) is a private nonprofit institution. Working as a multidisciplinary and independent think tank, it analyses the effects of economic, scientific, social, and environmental factors on food. The foundation produces valuable scientific content that can help people to make conscious choices every day about food and nutrition, health, and sustainability.

Danielle Nierenberg
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.

Food Tank is also publishing original articles daily and partners with nearly 50 major organizations including academic institutions like George Washington University and Tufts; U.N. organizations like the FAO, UNEP, UNDP, and IFAD; funding and donor community organizations such as the Rockefeller Foundation and the the Christensen Fund; and global nonprofits such as Slow Food USA and Oxfam America.

Danielle also conducts extensive on-the-ground research, traveling to more than 70 countries across sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. She has met with thousands of farmers and farmers’ groups, scientists and researchers, policymakers and government leaders, students and academics, as well as journalists, documenting what’s working to help alleviate hunger and poverty while protecting the environment.

Danielle’s knowledge of global agriculture issues has been cited widely in more than 20,000 major print and broadcast outlets worldwide, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the International Herald Tribune, the Washington Post, BBC, MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, the Guardian (UK), the Telegraph (UK), Le Monde(France), the Mail and Guardian (South Africa), the East African (Kenya), TIME magazine, the Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France Presse, Voice of America, the Times of India, the Sydney Morning Herald, and many more.

Danielle speaks at more than 100 events per year, including major conferences and events all over the world. These events range from The World Food Prize/Borlaug Dialogues, American College of Lifestyle Medicine Conference, James Beard Foundation Leadership Awards, Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition’s International Forum on Food and Nutrition, Edible Institute, Milan Urban Food Pact Awards, Aspen Institute Environment Forum, the European Commission, the Chicago Council Global Food Security Symposium, National Geographic’s Food Forum, the Sustainable Food Summit, the Hilton Humanitarian Awards, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Global Forum and Expo on Family Farming, New York Times Food for Tomorrow, TEDxManhattan, BITE, and many others.

She has built a worldwide social media and web following of more 1,000,000 including 350,000 weekly newsletter subscribers from 190 countries; 340,000 combined Facebook fans; and 500,000 combined Twitter followers. Food Tank’s website receives nearly 150,000 unique visitors per month.

Danielle has an M.S. in Agriculture, Food, and Environment from the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and spent two years volunteering for the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic.

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