Huffington Post carries an interview with Danielle Nierenberg who formerly worked with Nourishing the Planet and the Worldwatch Institute, and has now co-founded Food Tank to work towards food justice and sustainable agriculture.

Food Tank aims to bring together farmers, policymakers, researchers, scientists, journalists and the funding and donor communities to gather better information about food production that can lead to more informed research and development. The initiative plans to highlight solutions that are already working to address social and environmental problems.

Nierenberg would like to see more investment in agro-ecological practices such as agroforestry and solar drip irrigation. Food Tank is about “finding ways that make food production - and consumption - more economically, environmentally, and socially just and sustainable,” says Nierenberg.

Food Tank will work on developing a system that measures the ‘success’ of a food system in terms of how much it protects water and soil, or whether it promotes the empowerment of youth or gender equity.

According to Nierenberg, more attention needs to be given to leguminous crops, protein-rich grains and indigenous vegetables which are more nutritious and tend to be resistant to drought, disease, pests and high temperatures.

Read the full story: How Food Tank's Danielle Nierenberg Wants to Save the World