Family farmers have been and will always continue to be critical to national and global food security. Food Tank will be featuring posts focused on the issues and innovations critical to family farmers around the world, as well as actions everyone can take to support them.

Even with a surge of interest in "local food" and its central relationship to individual, community and global health, somehow it remains difficult for many of us to make the connection between the food we eat and the land that is required to grow it.

You can help meet every one of Food Day's goals with one single choice -- eat less meat. Jobs, health, education, the environment and ethics all converge at the end of our forks.

Long before fast food's so-called value meal, we had real ones. We cooked with the ingredients at hand, with what we could get.

You want to be treated right on the job and you deserve to be. So do the people who grow our food.

It's time to bring the school lunch program back to its roots. This year's child nutrition reauthorization provides an enormous opportunity to overhaul school food and teach students healthy eating habits that will last a lifetime.

Cars and fast food are partners in crime when it comes to undermining America's health. But our landscape is changing; Automotive High School in Brooklyn is now part of Slow Food NYC's Harvest Time program.

Think of an Eat-In as the marriage of the traditional picnic to the classic activism of the 1960's Sit-Ins; this is old-fashioned activism with a hot dish to share.

A recent federal mandate required that every school district write and implement a "Wellness Policy" that addressed, among other things, the epidemic ...

Remember school lunch? Mystery meatloaf? Slimy spaghetti? Vegetables so gray and overcooked it was impossible to imagine they started life fresh? ...

On top of an industrial building overlooking the East River in Brooklyn sits the 6,000 square foot urban farm.