Timothy A. Wise is quoted in this PBS investigative report on how proposed changes to NAFTA could impact the American corn market. "He leans against his red pickup truck and looks out at the fields where workers tend to rows of corn, chili, zucchini and tomatillo. At 18, he was like them, a field worker. Now he rents and farms 30 acres of the land where he once labored..." 

Timothy A. Wise is quoted in Third World Network's recap of the Word Trade Organization's eleventh ministerial conference.

"A global network of civil society organisations (CSOs) has expressed deep disappointment over the failure of the eleventh WTO ministerial conference (MC11) to bring about outcomes amongst others on a permanent solution for public stockholding programs for food security..."

Timothy A. Wise is quoted in The New York Times.

"SAN CRISTÓBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico — William Ruiz Sánchez spends his days grilling burgers and slathering fried hot dogs with pepperoni and cheese at his family’s restaurant. Refrigerators and fire-engine red tables provided by Coca-Cola feature the company’s logo in exchange for exclusive sale of its drinks..."

Excerpt from EcoMind by Frances Moore Lappé published in Conscious Lifestyle Magazine.

"Editor's Note: In the following piece Frances Moore Lappé presents several widely held ideas and beliefs about the environment, presenting a challenge to the notions and premises that underlie each of these thought traps. Backed by science and research, she shows how we can reframe these ideas and use them to create the world and future we really want."

Op-ed by Anna Lappé and Christina Bronsing-Lazalde in the New York Times.

"The soda industry won big in Chicago this week when county commissioners voted to scrap the 1-cent-per-ounce tax on sugary drinks that had been in place for just two months.

This is a stark turn for the effort..."

Anna Lappé guest edited "The Future of Food," a special issue from The Nation. This special issue features a moving story from a Syrian refugee camp about the power of food to bring people together, an excellent exploration of the Monsanto weedkiller glyphosate, an exploration of Anna’s new favorite food...

"QUERÉTARO — Aurelio Martínez Moran stands on the land he’s worked for nearly 22 years.

He leans against his red pickup truck and looks out at the fields where workers tend to rows of corn, chile, zucchini and tomatillo. At 18, he was like them, a field worker. Now he rents and farms 30 acres of the land where he once labored. Martinez has found shaky success..."

"The Las Vegas massacre focused national attention once again on the National Rifle Association’s ability to thwart democracy and the desire of an overwhelming majority of Americans, including most gun owners, for stronger rules on gun ownership. Yet, as Frances Moore Lappé and her co-author Adam Eichen make clear..."

"Frances Moore Lappé and Adam Eichen’s Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want offers the hope and empowerment we need during a divisive and wrenching moment in our history. While many may feel voiceless and powerless in the face of..."

ReThink Media hosted a Twitter Town Hall conversation with Frances Moore Lappé and Adam Eichen, moderated by Democracy Spring. The conversation took place on the launch of their new book Daring Democracy and was on what motivates the co-authors' activism and what we the people can do to start reclaiming our democracy. 

"President Trump accused Canada and Mexico of being “very difficult” in renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement and threatened anew to terminate the deal yesterday — an ominous or hopeful prospect for companies and investors, depending on the sector..."

"For an advocate of food as a tool for justice, it seems appropriate that Anna Blythe Lappé first heard about the murder of Heather Heyer while standing in the kitchen."

"In this series, we’re interviewing the world’s foremost thought leaders in biomimicry and sustainability to explore nature-based solutions to the world’s most pressing climate change issues. With each interview, we’ll delve into the top three areas where climate and sector leaders think we should intervene to affect the most change, take a deeper look at the most promising solutions on the horizon, and explore where they think the next big opportunity will be. Look for new interviews here on our Asking Nature blog. .." 

"When President Donald Trump talks about Mexico taking advantage of NAFTA to rip off the US — and he brings this up a lot — people like Fernando Turner can’t believe what they’re hearing. 

'We appreciate his tremendous confidence in Mexicans’ ability to...'"

From authors to chefs, business owners to activists, this list is a collection of change makers in every industry working to fix inequalities and problems in the food system all over the world. Their examples have inspired movements and changed minds. We hope their stories and work will inspire you as much as it has inspired us here at Food Tank.

Food Tank interviews Timothy A. Wise in lead up to his appearance at the Boston Food Tank Summit on April 1, 2017.

Forty-six years after she published a book that opened the nation’s eyes to a different way of eating and thinking about food, Frances Moore Lappe says we continue to see the problem of world hunger the wrong way.

"Well before the results of Tuesday’s election were in, Frances Moore Lappé had made up her contrarian mind: For her, the end of our long national nightmare of a campaign would mark the start of something new."

"Frances Moore Lappé poured another mug of coffee. By the end of this day, she said, the world would have produced 80 grams of protein, 2,900 calories and three to four pounds of food per person. That's only 'the leftovers' — the food that remains after half of all globally produced grain is digested at feedlots or burned for fuel. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, most people don't finish their "leftovers"; if food waste were a country, it would be the third largest greenhouse gas emitter after China and the U.S..."

"This week on What Doesn’t Kill You, host Katy Keiffer is joined on the line by Anna Lappé, an author and educator known for her work as an expert on food systems and as a sustainable food advocate. A recipient of the James Beard Leadership Award, Anna is the co-author or author of three books and the contributing author to more than a dozen others. Anna’s most recent book, Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It (Bloomsbury), was named by Booklist and Kirkus as one of the best environmental book’s of the year. Anna is also the co-author of Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen (Penguin) and Hope’s Edge (Penguin), which chronicles grassroots solutions to hunger around the world..."

"At the heart of  Anna Lappé’s activism is an exploration of the root causes of hunger. Some of the most common questions she is asked when she presents her work to various communities include, “Can organic food really feed the world?” and “Isn’t this way of eating only for the elite?” She’s made it her life’s mission to address these questions, which she thinks often originate with messages pushed out by public relations machines of well-funded agribusiness corporations..." 

"James Beard Leadership Award winner Anna Lappé has spent most of her career as a sustainable food advocate. We talk big food and marketing to kids--and the implications for the health of our planet and people."

In this special debate-night edition of “Last Night,” our ongoing effort to monitor how politics is covered on prime-time television, some of our subject-matter experts join our regular media critics to offer their reactions and reviews.

"When Frances Moore Lappe wrote the best-selling Diet For A Small Planet back in 1971, she helped start a conversation about the social and environmental impacts of the foods we choose..."

"Seana Lowe Steffen, host: Anna, what compels you to do the work that you do? 

Anna Lappé, guest: There are so many things that compel me to do this work. One of the forces is the experience that I had with my mother when we wrote Hope’s Edge traveling to India, Brazil, Bangladesh, Poland, Kenya..."

"Anna Lappé is one of the most influential voices in the food movement today. An internationally respected author and educator, she is known for her work as an expert on food systems and as a sustainable food advocate..."

"What brings Americans from across the country to the capital city this spring is -- in addition to the iconic cherry blossom -- disgust with money's role in politics.

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Over the past week, American voters' anger and frustration were on full display on the Capitol Hill, where thousands of activists held rallies and staged sit-ins to protest big money in politics and barriers to voting..."

Frances Moore Lappé is perhaps best known for her best-selling book Diet for a Small Planet, which looked at the causes of world hunger—and offered a solution. But these days, she’s thinking more about ballots than beans.

"Frances Moore Lappé is the author of 18 books about food, hunger and democracy. She’s best known for her book “Diet for a Small Planet.” Lappé was named by Gourmet Magazine as one of 25 people – including “The Jungle” author Upton Sinclair and TV chef Julia Child -- whose work has changed the way America eats. Her new book, coming out later this year, is called “World Hunger: 10 Myths.” Frances Moore Lappé talks about the advances she’s seen in feeding the hungry and what’s left to be done." 

Op-ed by Anna Lappé and Frances Moore Lappé in the New York Times.

"Several prominent Norwegians have questioned the Nobel Committee for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Wangari Maathai. Why honor environmental activism in an era when war, terrorism and nuclear proliferation are even more urgent problems? 

"What they miss is Dr. Maathai's special genius.

"The first time we met Maathai..."