Your 2025 Guide to Orgs & Visionaries Shaping Food Movement

Danielle Nierenberg.

As another year comes to a close, one thing is becoming more and more clear—we all have a role in deciding the future of our food and agriculture systems.

We have to strengthen regional and local food supply chains, and we have to build sustainability and equity in how we produce and consume food! 

And, importantly, we have to share success stories—and be honest about our shortcomings. When we break down silos and have discussions with people with different views than our own, we can come up with long-lasting solutions and take bigger steps forward together. We can be willing to admit when our ideas don't work, and we can help our colleagues in other communities to prioritize new ideas instead of repeating mistakes.

Heading into 2025, locally rooted community organizations, research initiatives, and advocacy groups are the ones who’ll guide us toward a future that prioritizes the health of people and the planet.

This year, we’re highlighting 125 organizations around the world that will shape the way our food system works in the coming year. These groups are led by farmers, food workers, chefs, food service providers, and other stakeholders. They are creating bold partnerships that bring together new ideas, advocate for people-centered policy, and make regenerative foods affordable and accessible for all.

I'm so inspired by all the motivated, generous, visionary people who work tirelessly to nourish those around them. And I hope you’ll take a look at Food Tank’s plans for the upcoming year!

Our full list of 125 organizations contains a lot of information—which speaks to the sheer scale of the food movement! We are a powerful global movement fighting for food system transformation, and our voices are so much stronger when we speak together. 

In alphabetical order, here’s the full list:

A–F: 40 Acres & A Mule Project; Africa Network of Agricultural Policy Research Institutes (ANAPRI); Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA); American Farmland Trust (AFT); Arrell Food Institute; Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA); Bangladesh Resource Centre for Indigenous Knowledge (BARCIK); Better Soils, Better Lives; Black Urban Growers (BUGs); Bread for the World; Botswana Farmers Association; Chennai Urban Farming Initiative; CDC Foundation; Chef Ann Foundation; CGIAR; Climate Policy Initiative (CPI); Coalition of Immokalee Workers; Congressional Hunger Center; West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (CORAF); Crop Trust; EARTH University; EAT; EcoAgriculture Partners; Edible Schoolyard Project; EiT Food; Environmental Defense Fund (EDF); Environmental Working Group; FAIRR Initiative; Fairtrade International; Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO (FLOC); Fed by Blue; First Nations Development Institute; Flowering Tree Permaculture Institute; Food Is Medicine Institute; Food Recovery Network (FRN); Food Systems for the Future; FoodCorps; Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR); and Future Food Institute.

G–R: Garda Pangan; Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN); Global Alliance for Latinos in Agriculture (GALA); Global Alliance for the Future of Food; Global FoodBanking Network (GFN); Global Food Institute (GFI) at George Washington University; GRAIN; GRACE Communications Foundation; GrowNYC; Green Bronx Machine; Heifer International; Harlem Grown; IndigeHub; Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA); International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe); International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food); James Beard Foundation; Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future; Just Food; Justice for Migrant Women; Kids in Nutrition (KIN); La Via Campesina; Landesa; Milken Institute; Modern Farmer; Movimento de Pescadores e Pescadoras Artesanais (MPP); National Association of Smallholder Farmers (NASFAM); National Young Farmers Coalition; Native Farm Bill Coalition; Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC); New African Society; Niman Ranch Next Generation Foundation; North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems (NĀTIFS); Noosa Environmental Education Hub (EEHub); NOW Partners Foundation; One Fair Wage; Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (PELUM); Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI); Project Drawdown; ProVeg International; Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI-USA); Rainforest Alliance; re•generation; ReFED; Regen10; Rescatemos El Valle; Rodale Institute; and Rythu Sadhikara Samstha (RySS).

S–Z: Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement; SDG2 Advocacy Hub; SEKEM; Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA); Senegalese Association for the Promotion of Development at the Base (Asprodeb); Sicangu Food Sovereignty Initiative (SFSI); Slow Food International and Slow Food USA; Soul Fire Farm; Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation; Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture; SUGi Project; Sustainable Food Trust; Sustainable Harvest International; Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems at Arizona State University; Sylvia Center; The Farmlink Project; The Nature Conservancy (TNC); The Rockefeller Foundation; The World Food Policy Center at Duke University; The World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg); Turning Tables; UJAMAA Cooperative Farming Alliance; Union of Concerned Scientists; United Farm Workers (UFW); United Nations Foundation; United Nations System; U.S. Hunger; Ustawi; Vision for Climate Adapted Crops and Soils (VACS); Wellness in the Schools (WITS); Centre d’Etude Régional pour l’Amélioration de l’Adaptation à la Sécheresse (CERAAS); Wholesome Wave; Women Advancing Nutrition Dietetics and Agriculture (WANDA); World Central Kitchen; World Resources Institute (WRI); World Rural Forum (WRF); World Wildlife Fund (WWF); and Zero Foodprint.

Check out the full list—with plenty of details, location information, and links—by CLICKING HERE. 

Let's all take time to go through the list, discover organizations that spark our passions, and find ways to get involved in our communities. We can’t afford to wait: Not until 2030, and not even until tomorrow. We’re facing cascading crises in our food, health, and environmental systems—and we need to get to work right away to build a future that nourishes, sustains, and unites us all. 

I wish you all a happy, healthy, equitable, and delicious New Year!