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Behind every food crisis is a system worth understanding
April 30, 2026
In recent months, we've seen just how a conflict in one region can evolve into food challenges elsewhere. Fertilizer price volatility is shaping what farmers can grow and what consumers ultimately pay at the supermarket. Hunger, nutrition, and food access are continually shaped by a web of interconnected forces – from policy to infrastructure and economics. And rarely does one of these shift in isolation.
What's On The Menu? Spring Into Action Student Digest (April 2026)
April 16, 2026
Registration is open for Fall 2026! Find a menu of courses built for future food leaders. Open to students from all majors and minors, this opportunity offers a chance to explore local and global food system perspectives throughout your academic journey!
Nutrition guidance must rise above the noise
March 26, 2026
For those of us working in food policy, March is National Nutrition Month - a chance to spotlight the importance of nutrition education to our individual and collective health. This year, many of us are asking an important question: how do we ensure sound nutrition guidance rises above the noise?
What's On the Menu? Filling Your Plate Student Digest (March 2026)
March 4, 2026
Fall 2026 course registration opens on Monday, March 30. Fill your plate and fuel your future with Food Leadership courses!
How school meals can change futures – one tray at a time
February 26, 2026
School meals may feel ordinary, but their impact on global health and nutrition is anything but. Across the globe, they reach hundreds of millions of children. And when implemented with strong nutrition standards, they are a uniquely powerful policy lever to improve food and nutrition security while supporting better health and educational outcomes.
What's On the Menu? Winter Student Digest
February 5, 2026
Chloë De Smedt a recent GW graduate, has carved a path at the intersection of food security, policy, and sustainability. With a concentration in International Environmental Studies and minors in Food Leadership and Sustainability, she brings passion and perspective to some of today’s most urgent challenges.
The new sugar guidelines are ambitious, but policy is key to making them work
January 22, 2026
As GFI’s Priya Fielding-Singh discusses in a new Boston Globe op-ed, the reality of reducing sugar intake in today’s food system is far more complex. Avoiding it requires time, money, access, and information that many families simply don’t have.
Have An Innovative Food Idea? Compete in GW's New Venture Competition to Bring It To Life!
January 13, 2026
GW’s renowned New Venture Competition (NVC) has launched a brand new Food Innovation Track with the Global Food Institute at GW (GFI) to support solutions improving food security, nutrition, food safety, sustainability, or access to healthy food.
Humanitarian aid saves lives, but it can’t end hunger
December 17, 2025
As the year draws to a close, one trend stands out for its profound implications for global food security: the sharp contraction in foreign aid. That’s why, as we look ahead, GFI is sharpening our focus on strengthening food system resilience through evidence, partnerships, and policy solutions that tackle the root causes of hunger.
What's On the Menu? End of Semester Student Digest (December 2025)
December 15, 2025
The end of semester student digest share GW opportunities including the New Venture Competition Food Innovation Track and the Humanitarian Internship Program.
The impact of the SNAP disruptions is far from over
November 20, 2025
Simply put: what happened this month was far from a temporary inconvenience–it was a rupture with real and lasting impact on people’s lives. Read more in this month's Power of Food.
What's on the Menu? Autumn Student Digest (November 2025)
November 10, 2025
Learn about GFI Spring 2026 courses, the food innovation track in the New Venture Competition, upcoming Harvest House events, and more.