Food Security

New Study Forecasts Dire Dip In Food Production If Atlantic Currents Collapse

September 12, 2026 Sascha Pare, Live Science. Educate! Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, climate crisis, Ecological Collapse, Food Security

Weakening Atlantic Ocean currents could cripple agriculture in some of the world's major breadbaskets, threatening global food security and raising the price of basic commodities, new research finds. The study, which hasn't been peer-reviewed yet, investigated how a roughly 60% decline in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) would impact global food production. The AMOC is a system of ocean currents that regulates the global climate and brings heat from the tropics to the Northern Hemisphere. However, the system is currently the weakest it's been in more than 1,000 years, having lost 10% to 20% of its strength due to climate change, estimates show.

We Started A Farming Club; Why You Should Start One Too

August 29, 2026 Jason Bradford, Resilience. Create! Farming, Farming Club, Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Solidarity

I’d like to catalyze a movement in this country that rebuilds a nation of farmers. Not another generation of John Deere-driving commodity growers, but millions of Earth-caring, soil-is-my-life, stewards-of-place, neoagrarians who’d make Wendell Berry swoon. After an injury and with the help of a handful of friends, I’ve stumbled onto a way that might happen: through local farming clubs. In January 2024, a severe ice storm struck Oregon’s Willamette Valley. On my family’s farm, tree limbs had snapped and were lying across fencing, so I got to work with a pole saw.

What Greece’s Alternative Food Networks Teach Us About Degrowth

August 27, 2026 Eirini-Erifyli Tzekou, Resilience. Create! Cooperatives, Degrowth, Food Security, Greece, Local Economy

When people hear the word degrowth, if it is not problematized or framed as a rejection of the growth paradigm, they often imagine a future that still needs to be invented. But in many places, parts of that future already exist. In Thessaloniki, Greece’s second-largest city, a wide range of grassroots food networks have emerged over the last fifteen years: cooperative grocery stores like Allos Tropos, BiosCoop, Eklektik, and To Koukouli; cooperatives operating in the food processing sector or the food services industry, like To Oraion Ntepo or Rediviva...

Philadelphia’s Community Fridges Are Now Bigger Than Ever

August 25, 2026 Pryce Jamison, Next City. Create! Community Refrigerator, Food Security, Mutual Aid, Philadelphia

Twice a month on Saturday mornings, sisters Sonia and Sonam Parikh drive out 45 minutes to pick up about 2,500 pounds of food from Trader Joe’s. As the founders of The People’s Fridge (TPF), they’ve built a partnership with the company, one of its many partners, that contributes to a monthly intake of 8,000 pounds of food that is then distributed to West Philadelphia residents in need. Along with a group of volunteers, the Parikh sisters sort and store food in the 1,000-square-foot warehouse they’ve been operating out of since January. Then they transport it to Cedar Park, where a line of families are usually waiting before the free food distribution begins.

The Most Shocking Climate News Of 2026

August 4, 2026 Robert Hunziker, Counter Punch. Educate! climate crisis, Ecological Collapse, Extreme weather, Food Security

The UK Green Party’s former leader Caroline Lucas recently nailed the Labor Party for “burying the most explosive report” of the year by UK military and intelligence sources. The concealed report warns “that the global collapse of ecosystems poses grave threats to the UK’s security and food supply within as little as five years.” “The UK ‘has no future’ if it cannot ‘restore the natural world on which we rely for our food, water, and clean air,’ said Chris Hinchliff, who is among the members of Parliament pressing the government to release the full report, rather than a shorter, redacted version.

A Neighborhood Trust Brought Fresh Food Back To Kensington

July 26, 2026 Pryce Jamison and Melissa Alicia Simpson, Next City. Create! Community Trust, Food Security, Grocery Stores, Philadelphia

When the Kensington Corridor Trust asked residents what their Philadelphia neighborhood needed most, one answer came up again and again. “One of the things that folks started to tell us in almost every single room that I was in was that people wanted a grocery store,” says executive director Adriana Abizadeh-Barbour, who since 2020 has led the pioneering neighborhood trust’s efforts to revitalize the corridor in partnership with residents. “Folks talked about the fact that there wasn’t a grocery store on Kensington Avenue, and there hadn’t been for quite some time.”

Fresh Bucks Program Offers National Model For Reducing Food Insecurity

July 18, 2026 Julian Villa, Inequality.org. Create! Congress, Food Security, Fresh Bucks, Poverty, Seattle

As rising food prices continue to strain household budgets and food insecurity remains a persistent challenge, a successful Seattle program is attracting national attention. For over a decade, the city’s Fresh Bucks initiative has helped lower-income families afford fresh fruits and vegetables through targeted food assistance. Now, Congress is considering whether to test that success at the national level. Seattle launched Fresh Bucks in 2012. The initiative seeks to “eliminate disparities in healthy food access for communities most burdened by food insecurity, economic hardship, and environmental injustices,” according to the program website.

How The Global Food Economy Is Killing Children

July 11, 2026 Vijay Prashad, The Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Educate! Children, Food Security, Foodborne illness, health, Starvation

On 4 June 2026, the World Health Organisation (WHO) released a devastating assessment of the state of the world’s food systems. According to the new estimates, which draw on data up to 2021, unsafe food causes approximately 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths every year. Nearly one in nine people globally falls ill from contaminated food, with the African and Southeast Asian regions together accounting for nearly three-quarters of all foodborne illnesses and 60% of global deaths. The burden falls most heavily on those who have contributed least to the crisis: children.

Food Waste Isn’t Just About What We Throw Away

July 11, 2026 Beverly Popoola, Resilience. Create! Environment, Finance and the Economy, Food Security, Food Waste, Sustainability

Back in June, I arrived at the 2026 ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit expecting conversations centered on food recovery, diversion strategies, and emerging technologies. Those conversations happened. But I left thinking about something much larger. Across discussions on policy, technology, supply chains, and community partnerships, a different pattern emerged: food waste rarely appeared as an isolated issue. Instead, it surfaced as a signal of deeper system failures and missed connections. The more I listened, the harder it became to think of food waste as simply a waste problem.

Nebraska Soil, Mid-East Oil

July 3, 2026 Kai Huschke, Resilience. Educate! Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Iran, Strait of Hormuz, Wars and Militarism

The Fertile Crescent, what we know today as Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Iraq, Turkey and Iran, is considered the birthplace of agriculture. Flood-enriched soil from the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers made for exceptional farming. Today, 500 miles from where the two rivers empty into the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz is under a blockade, impacting farming in the United States. A stalemate between the United States and Israel and that of Iran, the blockade is affecting the global movement of fossil fuels. Posturing, threats, and deadly actions continue between the three nations, putting more lives at risk and stressing out economies.

New Study: Seafood Industry Giants Failing To Tackle Pollution

July 3, 2026 Brigitte Wear, DeSmog. Educate! Fish Farms, Food Security, pollution, Seafood

The world’s largest seafood and aquaculture firms are failing to combat waste, and fall short on fish welfare, according to a new benchmarking assessment. A first-ever seafood index, which was launched in May by the global investor network FAIRR Initiative, assessed 20 firms — including salmon farmers Mowi and Bakkafrost — on the social, health, and environmental impacts of their operations. The study found that companies – which were headquartered in Europe, Asia-Pacific, North America and Latin America – fared well on social indicators such as worker representation and labour rights, but comparatively poorly on pollution, traceability, antibiotics use, and animal welfare.

Four Ways To Build A Food System That Can Withstand Collapse

June 4, 2026 Jasper Verschuur and Paul Behrens, Resilience. Create! climate crisis, Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Green Transition

Millions more people could face hunger in the coming months if the conflict in the Middle East is not resolved soon, the UN has warned. The price of energy, which affects the cost of producing and transporting food, has risen sharply due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. The price of fertiliser, much of it made in the Gulf states and exported via the same stretch of water, has also soared. So it seems inevitable that the cost of food around the world will increase, just as it did after Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 (both countries were big exporters of food and fertiliser).

The Architect Making America’s Food System Legible

May 30, 2026 Robert Jensen, Resilience. Create! Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Local Economy, Sustainability

Caitlin Taylor believes that a sustainable food system needs “legible” infrastructure, which is why she proposes—not entirely in jest—building slaughterhouses next to farmers’ markets. Architects and engineers usually strive to make infrastructure invisible—so functional and reliable that we forget about the countless systems that undergird modern life. We turn on a faucet without wondering where the water came from and flush toilets without thinking about waste-treatment plants. Most people probably prefer invisible infrastructure for beef production and poultry processing, but Taylor believes that the legibility of infrastructure—making systems visible and understandable—is crucial for justice and sustainability in food production.

Fighter Jets Or Affordable Food

May 28, 2026 Lois Ross, Rabble.ca. Create! Canada, Food Security, Grocery Stores, Public ownership

An increasingly prominent issue these days is the cost of food and discussion of various options to control the pricing and profiteering by food corporations across Canada. Depending on what you are purchasing or where you live, the cost of groceries has increased at least 30 per cent since 2020. The cost of food is ranked as the main issue for more than 75 per cent of Canadians – above housing and above gas prices. As noted in previous columns, the sale and distribution of food in Canada is concentrated. As is just five corporations – Loblaws, Metro, Sobeys, Costco and Walmart – control the market.

Farmers Face A Fertilizer Crisis At Spring Planting Time

May 15, 2026 Omanjana Goswami, Union of Concerned Scientists. Educate! Farmers, Fertilizer, Food and Agriculture, Food Security

The ongoing blockade of ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz has affected the passage of oil, finished fertilizer products, and the raw materials used to synthesize fertilizer. Exacerbated by limited supply, the price of fertilizer has steadily increased since the beginning of the war. On April 27, the price of urea was at $692 per metric ton, a 47 percent increase since the war began. The price of other fertilizers like diammonium phosphate was at $725 per metric ton. Retail prices of all major fertilizer products have been trending rapidly upwards.

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