food security

Intelligence in the Public Interest: How AI Research Is Falling Short & What To Do About It

Aspen Digital is leveraging public interest AI benchmarking as a new way to give communities a voice in AI research priorities.

June 18, 2025
Hands holding rulers and other implements over a stylized representation of a deep neural net

Solving Global Food Security Requires Local Action

The impact of climate change coupled with an ever-growing world population positions food security as a foreboding crisis.

April 27, 2022
Woman shopping for produce

Farm Workers Pay the Price for Our Cheap Produce

Many of these immigrant and migrant workers are expected to work in dangerous conditions for unlivable wages.

January 28, 2022
Farm worker in Florida

Chef’s Special: A Healthy, Sustainable Food System

Food justice sits at the intersection of health, economics, the environment, geography, and race. During Aspen Ideas: Health 2021, Chef Bryant Terry shared his vision for a truly sustainable food system that would help make healthy and culturally appropriate food choices accessible and affordable to all, in conversation with Joe Yonan of The Washington Post.

May 19, 2021

The Radical Origins of Free Breakfast and the Food Justice Movement

The movement took a significant step forward in 1969 when the Black Panther Party launched the Free Breakfast for Children Program.

February 18, 2021
Little boy eating an apple at the school

The Tech Response to COVID-19 Shows How to Fix the Safety Net

The most important ingredient is a relentless focus on the people using the services.

July 8, 2020

US Food Security in Challenging Times

Clarence Carter, Director of the Office of Family Assistance, is joined by Cordell Carter, Executive Director of the Socrates Program, to discuss food security during the COVID-19 pandemic.

May 21, 2020