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Food Tank: The Food Think Tank is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with the stated mission that “Food Tank is focused on building a global community for safe, healthy, nourished eaters. It spotlights environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable ways of alleviating hunger, obesity, and poverty and create networks of people, organizations, and content to push for food system change.”

Background
Food Tank was founded in 2012 by Danielle Nierenberg and Ellen Gustafson.

Activities
Food Tank hosts annual Food Tank Summits, the first of which was held in January 2015 in Washington, DC at George Washington University, Its Second Annual DC Summit was hosted in April 2016 at American University. which featured speakers, panelists, and moderators from organizations in the media, academic, business, policy, and non-profit fields including the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), National Public Radio (NPR), Earth Policy Institute, Capital Area Food Bank, Nafferton Ecological Farming Group at Newcastle University, Campbell Soup Company, Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), Center for Food Safety,, Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance (NAMA), and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). Food Tank has also announced planned 2016 Summits in Sacramento, Sao Paolo, and Chicago.

Since 2014, Food Tank has produced an annual Good Food Guide in partnership with the James Beard Foundation. In 2015, Food Tank was part of a project on true cost accounting in food systems and hosted a series of events and produced a report on the topic. Food Tank was involved with the production of “Man in the Maze,” a film produced by Greener Media, which was one of the winners of the Sundance Film Festival's Short Film Challenge in 2015.

In 2014, Food Tank partnered with the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Global Forum on Agricultural Research, and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) on the International Year of Family Farming (IYFF).