Resilient Food Systems

Our current food system is struggling to sustain our world’s growing population.

Farmers face increasingly frequent droughts and extreme weather events due to climate change, reducing their productivity as well as means of earning a living.

Meanwhile, supply chain inefficiency, food loss, and food waste add up to $1 Trillion in financial losses each year, while hundreds of millions of people around the world face acute food insecurity.

We work to build resilient food systems, focusing on solutions ranging from climate-smart agriculture to urban farming, food recovery and effective emergency food systems to procurement strategies, and regional planning and policy.

Working with CARE International, Leland Fellow Kaila Balch is helping to establish bountiful backyard gardens in crowded refugee settlements in Uganda.

Gen Z Leaders Gather in Washington for Food & Hunger Summit

Over 50 student leaders from 25 states gathered in Washington, D.C., for the second annual summit, meeting with members of Congress to discuss campus hunger and their proposed solutions for combatting food waste and making it easier for students to meet their basic needs....

Beyond the School Grounds: School Feeding and Community Resilience in Burundi

Working with World Vision, Leland Fellow Lora Boll shows how school meals don’t just keep students fed, but can also promote environmental sustainability, agricultural production, and community resilience....

This is Food Sovereignty: Land Access for Urban Agriculture in Chicago

Hunger Fellow Lauren Drumgold, working with Chicago Food Policy Action Council, connected urban farmers with vacant land in to build stronger local food systems....

[Video] Climate Change in the Midwest: Exacerbating Food Insecurity

Zero Hunger Interns Nash Masinde, Meghna Phalke, and James Ziegeweid investigated how regenerative agriculture, climate-smart infrastructure, and changes to the conservation reserve program can protect food security in the face of climate risks in the Midwestern U.S....

Leland Fellows Share Recommendations for U.N. Food Systems Summit

Leland Fellows brought together development and humanitarian implementers, farmers, local leaders and community members, governments and companies to discuss how to make food systems more equitable and sustainable....

Our work building resilient food systems is generously supported by our partners.

Gold Sponsor

Kellanova Better Days Promise is committed to advancing sustainable and equitable access to food, creating Better Days for 4 billion people by the end of 2030.

Silver Sponsor

From small family farms to global shipping lanes, Cargill works every day to implement new sustainable practices to reduce our impact on the planet and protect people.