The Food Imperative

Our recipe for feeding the world needs a rewrite. By quickly producing as much food as we can, as cheaply as we can, we are putting an unsustainable strain on the planet. Yet, more than 700m people still don’t have enough to eat and 1.5bn can’t afford healthy food.

The Food Imperative is Economist Impact’s commitment to transform our global food systems for the future. Designed to arm decision-makers with the data, insights and tools they need to develop more sustainable and secure solutions, The Food Imperative will map and unpack best-practice policies, untangle agro-industrial complexities and pressure-test approaches that promise positive, inclusive economic outcomes.

Through insightful content, cutting-edge research, and illuminating events The Food Imperative will work with like-minded partners to drive the discourse and action needed to best serve all people—and our planet.