photo/grantee: Grow Where You Are - USA
Who We Are
A Well-Fed World is a plant-based hunger relief and climate advocacy organization that strengthens global food security by nourishing people in need and facilitating food systems transformation that maximizes personal, public, and planetary health for current and future generations.
Our Vision
Our vision of a well-fed world is one in which all people have an abundance of nourishing, plant-based foods that maximize health, conserve resources, and protect animals. Ideally, these nutrient-dense, climate-friendly foods are produced and distributed in ways that prioritize long-term sustainability and collective well-being.
Our Mission
A Well-Fed World's mission is to advocate and facilitate plant-based feeding and farming solutions that uplift marginalized communities and the world at large, while elevating a just transition away from the consumption and production of animal-sourced foods as foundational to resilient, climate-friendly food systems.
Our Methods
Working through our Plants-4-Hunger, Climate Food Fund, Fiscal Sponsorship, and other Granting/Regranting programs, we financially strengthen and partner with highly effective, on-the-ground initiatives providing immediate plant-based food and farming assistance for people in their own communities.
We combine this direct local empowerment with institutional alliances to further our shared mission in ways that address root causes and create structural change.
Our research analyses bring nuance to complex issues related to the consumption and production of animal-sourced foods. In particular, we focus on the ways in which the livestock sector accelerates resource depletion, deforestation, and greenhouse gas emissions resulting in greater food insecurity and accelerating climate breakdown.
Rooted in practicality and purpose, our multi-level approach supports individuals, NGOs, and institutions in creating meaningful change and embracing the transformative power of plant-based foods and farming.
- We provide funding and material assistance to advocates in the U.S. and around the world.
- We analyze and interpret research to make the findings more accessible and persuasive.
- We network with global changemakers to incorporate the benefits of plant-based solutions.
Our Plant-Based Focus
Disentangling our food system from its dependence on livestock is a critical part of solving the world's most persistent and destructive problems.
Fortunately, the plant-based foods that promote health and well-being are the same foods that conserve resources to better feed the world, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and protecting the environment.
Historically, the transition process has been hindered by entrenched habits, nutrition misconceptions, and vested interests, but there is increasing awareness of the positive change made possible by a shift towards plant-based foods and agriculture.
We highlight the benefits of reducing (ideally eliminating) animal-sourced foods because of the:
- immense and immediate positive change
- relative ease in implementing
- compatibility with other reforms
Our Target Audiences
Many hunger relief, health, environmental, food safety, and food justice organizations acknowledge the benefits of reducing global meat and dairy consumption (especially among high-consuming populations), but resist advocating for reductions.
Increasingly, however, a shift towards more plant-based diets is becoming mainstream in practice and in advocacy. In addition to more people adopting vegetarian and plant-based (vegan) diets, increasingly partial measures are also popular. For example: reducetarian and flexitarian diets actively replace some animal-sourced meals with plant-based meals. Partial steps on a large scale make meaningful, life-saving improvements with the greatest impact stemming from the greatest reduction.
A Well-Fed World promotes both the ideal of fully plant-based foods and farming, as well as partial and incremental change for broad, immediate impact.
We also focus on normalizing plant-based food choices, making individual and societal change easier by supporting institutions and policies that increase the accessibility of healthy, plant-based food options.
For the people with the privilege of food choice, every meal provides an opportunity to improve personal, public, and planetary health.