Food

Net Impact is excited to announce that Zim Maggot Producers from Great Zimbabwe University in Masvingo has won the 2021 Food Solutions Challenge. In partnership with Bayer, World Business Council for

Resiliency is a top theme in 2021 as we continue in the era of COVID-19 and this applies even more to smallholder farmers. More than 500 million smallholder farmers produce roughly a third of the

Twenty years ago a group of friends returned to the United States after a trip to Brazil with an idea to build a company rooted in a triple bottom line philosophy - where s ocial and environmental

There is no doubt that 2020 has been a challenging year for everyone. While the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, there is hope on the horizon in the form of 600 young visionaries. For the 10 th year in a

Whether you have been to a conference before or this will be your first (because we know you will not want to miss this event) the 2017 Net Impact Conference is going to stand out above the rest!

On April 20, 2017, the top 6 team finalists of our first ever “ Foods Solution Challenge” arrived on campus at the University of Wisconsin in Madison to pitch their ideas in front of industry experts

Healthy Food Fellow, Nana Boateng is teaching her community what "healthy" really means.

Berenice Leung is a 2016-2017 Net Impact Healthy Food Fellow. We invite you to read more about her project, Sweet Fields.

The Net Impact Fellowship is a year-long leadership development program where students implement action projects on their campus or in their community. This year’s cohorts of fellows are passionate

The second day of the 2016 Net Impact Conference featured two keynote sessions and twice the fun! Catch up on the day's events and make sure to live stream our thrid and final day.

Rio, a city currently struggling with issues including violence, a virus outbreak, and polluted waters, has found innovative ways to use the Olympics to solve current challenges within the city. Here’s one way they are bracing for impact, with help from a few famous chefs.

A team of researchers found a new way to measure the types of food residents in food deserts are consuming: Instagram.

During the Spring of 2016, Net Impact partnered with Newman's Own Foundation to create the Newman's Own Foundation Challenge. 25 student teams from across the country got funding and mentorship to bring their nutrition ideas to life.

There is a silent extinction underway in the world of plants. We’ve all heard of the troubling mass extinction of animal life, so it may come as a surprise to hear that seeds are in even deeper

Insects are healthy for us; they provide food at lower environmental costs and they're sustainable, as they are in abundance throughout our planet. Many companies around the world are now developing delicious insect products.

In the US, consumers waste more than double the amount of food the retail industry wastes. We know it has negative consequences for our wallet and our planet and we don’t want to do it, so how do we as consumers stop wasting food? Read on for some helpful tips.

R.I.V.E.R., stands for Recognizing Illnesses Very Early & Responding, and serves the “uninsured, underserved, at-risk community of the greater Sacramento area”, the patient advocacy group is trying to prevent chronic disease by educating people (children, in particular) about proper nutrition and exercise.

It’s no secret that the food industry is undergoing a consumer-driven revolution and at Campbell we’re working every day to rise to the challenge. Sometimes one of the ways to address a challenge is

We caught up with UC Berkeley's Better Bowl to ask a few questions about the story behind the business idea, as well as how the Newman's Own Foundation Challenge has changed the project.

This week, Net Impact CEO, Liz Maw spoke with Angela Copeland on her Copeland Coaching Podcast. Angela was a founding member of both the Pepperdine University Graduate Net Impact Chapter and Memphis's Professional Net Impact Chapter and is currently a career coach.

My South African students giggle as I walk by the sleeping student. I gently touch the student’s arm until he slowly lifts his frail frame, struggles to open his eyes, and gradually falls back asleep

This year we’re bridging the gap between our annual conference and the many independent events hosted by our chapters. We’re calling it NIx and providing our chapters with the tools and skills they need to put on bigger and better regional events.

27 teams are competing in this year's Newman's Own Foundation Challenge. We're excited to highlight a few of the teams this spring on our blog. Read on to learn about the FoodInno Team from U.C. Berkeley who are to building a collaborative environment of food innovators from all walks of life.

Did you know in 2010, diet surpassed smoking as the number one risk factor for disease and death in the United States?

The Nature Conservancy and General Mills have worked together to protect land and water for over 40 years - so they know a thing or two about NGO/Corporate collaborations. Read on for their top 4 tips to effective partnerships.

A note from our CEO, Liz Maw: 2016 has been anything but boring here at Net Impact. We’re committed to doing more for our members and chapters than ever before, whether that’s bringing our annual conference on the road through our NIx initiative, bringing new people into the mix with our Impact Design expansion, and redoing our website.

At Net Impact's 2015 Conference, students and industry came together to discuss the future of food. Thought leaders at Google, Starbucks and Monsanto directly engaged with students from across the world during the Nourishing 9 Billion Challenge session. Read on to see what Monsanto Economist, Mac Marshall thought of the event.

The beef community’s attitude toward sustainability is that it’s a journey – not a destination. We must continually improve. We have over the past decades and we strive to for decades to come. The life cycle assessment (LCA) set us on a direct path to ensure we continue to do so.

These students are coming up with innovative ideas to address the world's toughest problems.

This post is part of a new series that highlights ways to keep up with impact-related issues through social media. As the Co-Founder & Chief Impact Officer at Revolution Foods, Kirsten Saenz Tobey is

Understanding the Global Food Crisis The world’s population is expected to grow from 7 billion to 9 billion people by 2050. Right now, there are 805 million hungry people in the world. It’s estimated

This blog post is an ongoing series featuring speakers from the 2014 Net Impact Conference. When considering the many daunting challenges that face mankind in the coming years, global food security

This blog post is an ongoing series featuring speakers from the 2014 Net Impact Conference. Increasingly, consumers want to feel good about not only their chocolate, but also where it comes from. Find

The challenges we face in growing food – an expanding population, climate change, finite resources – impact all of us today, and could shape our lives and our quality of life in the years to come. The

Mario Dionisio Valle stands in front of me, tall and proud, as we look over his three-acre coffee farm. "My coffee plants are my heart," he explains, "they center my life, and all my activities flow

This ongoing Q&A series profiles a few of the speakers we're looking forward to seeing at this year's Net Impact Conference. Meriwether is a Senior Executive Associate with the Rainforest Alliance and will be speaking in our Sustainable Food & Agriculture and Environment & Natural Resources tracks.

This ongoing Q&A series profiles a few of the speakers we're looking forward to seeing at this year's Net Impact Conference. Shivani is the Founder at Friday Consulting and will be speaking in our Sustainable Food & Agriculture track. If you could spend 15 minutes with one impact hero past or present, who would it be and why? I'm a big fan of Jane Jacobs and her work on urban planning. It has deeply informed my work with food businesses and building communities. I'd love to talk with her over a glass of wine about creating public/private urban spaces.