Projects
Coming Spring 2023
My upcoming book: Feeding the Future
Feeding the Future: Transforming Food Systems for Climate Resilience, Health and Justice sets forth a provocative thesis— transforming the global, industrialized food system is beyond our reach. There will be no overhaul or overthrow of this destructive system. We cannot expect a top-down declaration from governments or multinational organizations that shifts all agricultural production to localized, organic production. And there is no technological fix to address our present or future food systems challenges. Although it is counterintuitive, we can’t address the global food systems problems at scale. But we can heal places, soil, ecosystems, our health, and communities through regeneration. It is with this framing that Feeding the Future offers the radical hope we all need now. This book will share the stories of visionary changemakers and communities around the world that are applying innovative, unique strategies to bring depleted agricultural lands back to life, revitalizing urban neighborhoods, establishing new economic models, and creating thriving regional food systems. In these ways, communities are not transforming the existing global food system, but transcending it.
The Plant Based Foods Institute
The Domestic Sourcing Initiative
The Plant Based Foods Institute’s (PBFI) Domestic Sourcing Initiative (DSI) encourages and empowers plant-based food companies to source ingredients grown domestically for direct human consumption. Many plant-based food companies use imported ingredients, relying on global supply networks vulnerable to significant disruptions and delays that can hinder company access to critically important materials and consumer access to their products. By sourcing key ingredients here in the United States, companies can build more resilient, sustainable networks to support long-term growth and stability for our farmers and supported industries.
UN Development Programme
Conscious Food Systems Alliance
The Conscious Food Systems Alliance (CoFSA), is a movement of food, agriculture, and consciousness practitioners, convened by UNDP, and united around a common goal: to support people from across food and agriculture systems to cultivate the inner capacities that activate systemic change and regeneration.
Food Law & Regulation
Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy
Food Law & Regulation is a course taught each Spring by Nicole Negowetti focusing on food law, an area where many important legal, environmental, economic, and social justice concepts intersect in our society. Students will analyze the following topics: national regulation of food (production, safety, labeling, and marketing); food and consumer rights; food technology and the law (biotechnology, genetic modification of crops and livestock); food production (including an overview of the farm bill, the National Organic Program, and alternative food systems); food, nutrition, and public health; and food justice, including issues of equity, food access, land and labor rights.
