Good Food Fund

GFF envisions mindful food for a better world.

Goals

It aims to facilitate shifts in food production, distribution, and consumption patterns towards a healthier, more environmentally friendly, and more sustainable food system, by supporting investigative research, public communications, policy advocacy, public education, and entrepreneurship related to the food system.

Major Projects

• Public education on food sustainability: build the most reliable knowledge hub on food-related issues in Chinese - the Good Food Academy (www.goodfoodchina.net). The website educates the users about the multi-faceted impacts of the industrial food system, especially factory farming, and how to make food choices for a better future.
• Good Food Speaking Tour: GFF plans and carries out innovative educational events to inspire changes through face-to-face interactions. Such as the 2017 “Good Food Road Show” and 2018 “Green Dining at Yale” speaking tour.
• Networks and Capacity Building: every summer, GFF organizes Good Food Hero Summit, which brings change-makers from across China and the globe to inspire research and action on making effective changes involved in the food system.
• China leadership plan: international Chinese entrepreneurs/senior management/chefs in public food-services exchange
• Catalyzing Changes: GFF provides small grants and fellowships to research, communication, education, and entrepreneurship efforts related to the food system under Good Food Incubator.

Major Funders

China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation

Distinctions

• GFF is the only special fund focuses on sustainable food system in China at present. It has systematically built the reliable knowledge hub on food-related issues in Chinese.
• Each year, GFF organizes diverse events/summits on different leading-edge topics, also the forms of the events are novel and innovative. Until now, GFF has organized ‘Good Food Roadshow’ (2017), ‘Good Food Hero Summit’ (2017,2018), ‘Green Dining at Yale’ speech tour (2018). And in 2019, it has launched the first ‘Global Leading Food Conference’ together with the ‘New Year Feast in Top 5 Universities in the U.S.’ Event. The Conference includes speeches, workshop, and forums. This year, the "Global Leading Food Conference" is another innovative initiate. Firstly, to focus on the changing of the Chinese chefs: the top 7 leading Chinese chefs create menus for the upcoming Chinese New Year feast to lead the dietary habits in the future.